Morocco’s high speed TGV train, the first of its kind in Africa, is expected to transport 5 million passengers in 2023. Last year, the line attracted 4.2 million travelers and 3 million passengers in 2019. These figures have been disclosed by Head of Moroccan railway operator (ONCF), Mohamed Rabie Khlie, during the 11th UIC High-Speed […]
Algeria’s 76-year-old President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has been nominated by his ruling National Liberation Party (FLN) to run for a fourth term in April 2014. The ailing leader, who was hospitalized in France last April after suffering what official reports described as a stroke, has been in power since 1999. He presided over a cabinet meeting […]
Morocco’s harvest of three main grains, soft wheat, durum, and barley, dropped 43% to 3.12 million tons in 2024, due to a severe drought that slashes cultivated areas. The cultivated area shrunk to 2.47 million hectares, compared with 3.67 million hectares last season, the agriculture ministry said. Soft wheat harvest dropped to 1.75 million tons, […]
