Rachid Ghannouchi, head of Islamist Ennahda movement said he met with Hafez Essebsi, director of ruling Nidaa Tounes, for the first time after fallout between the two former ally parties over Prime Minister Youssef Chahed. A statement on Ghannouchi’s facebook page said the meeting addressed “the current political situation” with no further details. The North […]
Morocco’s state-owned railway operating company (ONCF) posted a net profit of 223 million Dirhams in 2016, up 31% compared to 2015. The company said in a statement that its turnover over the same period reached 3.7 billion DH with an added value of 2.5 billion DH and a self-sustainability of 273 million DH, 5.8% higher […]
Most of Kenya was cut off from electricity on Friday following major grid failures, grid operator and the energy ministry said. The outage was blamed on two trips at a transmission line and on the Ethiopia-Kenya high voltage transmission line, Energy Minister Opiyo Wandayi said in a statement. “The loss of 488MW, accounting for 27.3% […]
