Morocco has secured enough wheat stocks to cover four months of its needs as the agriculture ministry launched a tender to build additional stocks. Despite the surge in wheat prices due to the supply disruptions resulting from the Russia-Ukraine war, Morocco maintains its subsidies for soft wheat flour, government spokesman Mustapha Baitas said. The agriculture […]
Seven African countries collected $2.4 billion of additional revenue through tax transparency, exchange of information and related measures in 2023 than over the 13 preceding years combined, a new progress report for the so-called Africa Initiative has found. Launched at a recent 15th Meeting of the Africa Initiative in Lomé, Togo, the Tax Transparency in […]
Mauritania’s national electricity company, SOMELEC, has attributed the general power outage that affected several parts of the country on Tuesday, 10th March, evening to an unexpected failure on a high-voltage transmission line. According to the company, the blackout disrupted electricity supply in Nouakchott, Nouadhibou, and several communities along the transmission corridor late Tuesday night into […]
