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Morocco’s Fossil Sites Yield World-Class Discoveries — and Suffer Irreversible Looting

Abderrazak El Albani, a Marrakech-born geologist and professor at the University of Poitiers, has published a book recounting the journey that began with a 2010 paper in Nature — a paper that unsettled a consensus the scientific community had treated as settled for decades. His team’s research in the Gabonese Franceville basin established that multicellular […]

World Bank lends Morocco $70 Mln for social protection system

The World Bank has approved $70 million loan for Morocco to enable country continue implementing ambitious social protection reforms seeking to facilitate access to social services in particular for vulnerable households. Building on the achievements of the first project, which saw a successful design and implementation of the National Population Registry, Unified Social Registry, and […]

Libya: France not in haste to reopen embassy

France Friday indicated that it was not planning to reopen its Tripoli embassy shortly, citing lack of security conditions, Middle East Monitor (MEMO) reports. The French Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson Romain Nadal said at a daily news briefing that Paris would not repost its ambassador in Tripoli soon. “Our embassy for Libya is currently located in […]