In addition to the announced regasification units in Nador port, Morocco is also considering adding two plants on the Atlantic to bolster its energy security, according to media reports. Natural gas is considered as a transition energy that would help the country reduce its footprint and boost its industry’s competitiveness. Morocco had announced earlier last […]
There are reports that Egyptian banks have been ordered by the Central Bank to refrain from doing business with some banks in African and Arab countries amongst which are Qatar, Libya, Syria and Sudan. The central bank’s decision is aimed at reducing the scale of money laundering in compliance with the anti-money laundering laws. Several […]
Although Côte d’Ivoire is the world’s top cocoa producing country, accounting for around 45% of the global cocoa beans production, the country receives just 4% of the chocolate industry’s estimated annual returns worth $100bn. Being on the “front lines of the climate crisis,” cocoa farmers in the region harvests suffer, so do their livelihoods, according […]
