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Morocco’s OCP group to develop fertilizer plant in Ethiopia

Morocco’s OCP Group and the Ethiopian government have signed an agreement to develop a fertilizer plant in gas-rich Dire Dawa in northern Ethiopia, for a total investment of up to $3.7 billion dollars, as announced by the Ethiopian Ministry of Finance. A visiting Ethiopian delegation led by the country’s Minister of Finance, Ato Ahmed Shide, […]

Syria: A new Syrian coalition group to negotiate with Assad

Factions and groups making up the Syrian opposition landscape will be meeting for two days in Cairo to set up what would be called the Syrian National Opposition. Haytham Manna, a veteran Syrian opposition figure and a key organizer of the event said the new body will be “totally different” from the Syrian National Coalition […]

Again an Impasse: Tunisian Talks ‘Suspended’ over PM Nomination

The UGTT (Union Générale Tunisienne du Travail) union federation – which represents hundreds of thousands of Tunisian workers – mediating Tunisia’s political crisis announced Tuesday that it would “suspend the national dialogue” on choosing a new prime minister after political leaders again failed to agree on a candidate. The political tensions and economic instability that […]