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Egypt: Tourism revenues on the rise thanks to arrivals from Eastern Europe, Gulf countries

Egypt is targeting between $6 billion and $9 billion in tourism revenues in 2021 as the country reports a rise in arrivals of Eastern European and Gulf holidaymakers, Bloomberg reports quoting tourism minister Khaled El Anany. Late last month, Deputy Minister Ghada Shalaby said Egypt is expecting to generate between $6 billion and $7 billion […]

UN Chief Urges Commitment to Well-managed Migration at Marrakech Conference

The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said the migration meeting in Marrakech to adopt the Global Compact on Migration is an opportunity to make progress towards a well-managed migration. “I urge Governments, businesses, civil society, but also local and regional authorities to come to the table ready to make commitments that will maximize the benefits […]

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 […]