Spanish tourism magazine Aire Libre awarded the sustainable tourism prize to Morocco in recognition for its efforts to promote eco-friendly tourism as well as for the Kingdom’s success in organizing the UN climate summit (COP22), last November in Marrakech. The prize, awarded on the occasion of the designation of 2017 as a year of sustainable […]
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) decided to keep the pressure on the ruling junta in Mali, where sanctions remain in place, while Guinea and Burkina Faso are threatened with new sanctions. ECOWAS “urges the transitional authorities to enter into a complementary period of 12 to 16 months” before the organization of elections […]
The Mauritanian Government has decided to maintain the fuel oil subsidy at 70 MRO per litre, the Minister of Economic Affairs and Development, Abdallahi Ould Souleimane Ould Cheikh Sidiya, announced during a weekly press briefing. The subsidy is estimated to cost the State around 3.15 billion old ouguiyas per month, according to the minister. He […]
