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Sanofi-Aventis Group Invests € 20 Mln in Morocco

Sanofi-Aventis pharmaceutical group has opened a state-of-art logistics hub in Casablanca, Morocco, giving a new impetus to the thriving pharmaceutical industry in the North African nation. The facility, built over a 12,000-sq/m2 zone, cost the Paris-based company an investment of 20 million euros. It will handle 1,300 products destined for local market and for export […]

Tunisia competes with Egypt to host AMA headquarters

Tunisia Monday submitted its candidacy to host the new headquarters of the African Medicines Agency (AMA), several days after Egypt expressed willingness to provide a venue for the construction of the agency’s continental office. Tunisia’s Minister of Health Ali M’rabet made the offer as he received Aggrey John Douglas Ambali, an African Union (AU) official […]

Morocco Aspires to Join 50 Most Powerful Economies in the World by 2021

Morocco has set the goal of joining the 50 most powerful economies of the globe by 2021, said Head of the Government, Saad Eddine El Othmani. El Othmani, who was speaking at the 13th World Islamic Economic Forum in Malaysia, said that Morocco has taken the necessary reforms to achieve that goal, citing notably the […]