The gas pipeline project to link Nigeria to Morocco will act as an incentive for further regional integration in West Africa, head of Nigeria’s National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mele Kyari said. Morocco and Nigeria agreed to build the pipeline in late 2016 during a visit by King Mohammed VI to Abuja. Several meetings followed as […]
The appeal trial of former Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz opened Wednesday in Nouakchott. He is accused of abusing his power to amass a huge fortune. The former Head of State, who ruled this largely desert country of 4.5 million people from 2008 to 2019, was sentenced at first instance to 5 years in […]
Maghreb Countries are reinforcing preventive measures against the spread of the COVID-19, with Morocco asking its citizens to stay home and to limit their movement to essential errands, Tunisia imposing a curfew nationwide and Algeria banning demonstrations. In Morocco, one of the first countries in the world to apprehend the scale of coronavirus outbreak and […]
