The African Development Bank (AfDB) approved a loan of $200 million to Morocco to boost the country’s industrialization plan, local media said. The loan will help fund the first phase of the support program of the Industrial Acceleration Plan, which aims to create 500,000 jobs by 2020 and to increase the share of industry in […]
Spain has confirmed it was working on handing over the management of the Sahara air space to Morocco, which has followed a gradual approach to end Spanish colonial residues in the territory. Spain, the former colonial power, has retained control over the Sahara air space from the Canary Islands. The Spanish government said in a […]
The National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland (CNSP), the new leadership in Niger, appointed Monday former Finance Minister Ali Mahamane Lamine Zeine as the country’s transitional Prime Minister. Zeine served as Finance minister under Mamadou Tandja, who led the country from 1999 to 2010 after return to civilian rule. The 58-year-old politician and […]
