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Zimbabwe’s new mining royalty rule: 50% commodities and 50% cash

Miners operating in Zimbabwe will have to pay some of their royalties in refined metal rather than cash, as the country will hold reserves of gold, diamonds, platinum and lithium, says President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Zimbabwe’s president said the new policy that compels miners to pay half of their royalties in commodities and half in cash […]

Algeria will not renew gas pipeline deal with Morocco, Spain

Algeria announced that it will abandon a gas pipeline that supplied Spain via Morocco in a hostile act that followed the severance of diplomatic ties with Rabat.   Moroccan officials rely on the pipeline to power two electricity plants in the north, but the decision would do little damage as the Kingdom foresaw the move. […]

King Mohammed VI to Resume Normal Activity without Restrictions after Heart Operation

King Mohammed VI of Morocco underwent a successful operation on Monday (February 26) following a heart rhythm disorder, the Moroccan official news agency (MAP) said. The King had suffered an atrial flutter last January. A radio frequency ablation of this arrhythmia, performed Monday at the Ambroise Paré clinic in Paris, enabled the normalization of the […]