A Turkish company will invest $700 million in an Iraqi steel plant to upgrade its production capacity to 1 million tons per year. Under the 18-year deal with the Iraqi ministry of Industry and Minerals, the Turkish company will rehabilitate and develop the iron and steel plant located in the Khor Al-Zubair, in Basra, that […]
The first annual meeting of the African Platform of Clean Cities will be held in Rabat June 26-28 to share experiences on waste management and look into the best ways to fight littering and garbage heaps in African cities in a bid to boost tourism, reduce certain diseases and improve the taxpayers’ health and environment. […]
With the spectacular fall of Mosul to the Islamic State of Iraq and Al Sham (ISIS) and the humiliating retreat of the US-equipped Iraqi Security Forces (ISF), Iraq’s future as a unified state hangs in the balance. ISIS represents only a symptom in the current crisis facing Iraq, the deep causes lie in the grab […]
