Abdelilah Benkirane, secretary-general of Morocco’s Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD) speaks during a new conference at the party’s headquarters in Rabat,

Tunisia: 5year development plan to overcome economic and social challenges by 2016

Tunisia is preparing a five year development program that is expected to begin next year and the Minister of Development, Investment and International Co-operation Yassine Brahim said the plan will include strategic orientations and national priorities. The plan seeks the revival of Tunisian economy and also focuses on the social challenges after the end of the […]

UN SG confirms absence of any status for Polisario at United Nations

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has confirmed in his latest report to the Security Council on the Moroccan Sahara issue that the polisario has no status at the United Nations. Actually, as in his previous reports, Guterres referred three times to the “polisario representative in New York” and in no way as a “representative to […]

Morocco’s ONEE, TAQA, Nareva unveil $14 billion energy & water projects

The Moroccan government, electricity and water supplier ONEE together with a consortium including Mohammed VI Investment Fund, TAQA Morocco and Nareva agreed to join forces to develop a sweeping infrastructure program aimed at securing water and bolstering energy production by 2030, for a total investment cost estimated at $14 billion. The investments have been ushered […]