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Morocco’s ONEE, Germany’s KfW seal €50 Mln loan deal to finance drinking water supply program

The German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), through KfW, will grant Morocco’s National Office of Electricity and Drinking Water (ONEE) a €50 million loan destined to finance a climate-resilient drinking water supply program. The program is aimed at securing and reinforcing drinking water supply in several towns, including Ghafsai, El Hajeb, Ain Legdah, Bouderbala, Souk […]

West Hails Mohammed VI’s Speech against Radicalism as ‘Timely’, ‘Brave’

Commentaries by western intellectuals, media and government officials continue to hail King Mohammed VI for his speech against radicalism and terrorism. In a recent commentary on the French Le Point newspaper, French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy highlights that at a time the west is mired in a sterile burkini debate, King Mohammed VI delivered a speech- […]

Egypt: PM Ismail to present cabinet within a week

Egyptians would soon discover the new faces of the cabinet after president Sisi tasked outgoing petroleum minister Sherif Ismail to from a government within a week. The outgoing Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab was assumingly forced to resign together with his cabinet after he submitted a report on his government’s activities to the president who dubbed […]