UN Security Council

Morocco’s SNI Changes Name into Al Mada, Gears Activity to Africa

SNI, the largest stakeholder in the Moroccan economy, announced that it has changed its name into Al Mada in tandem with gearing its activity towards becoming a pan-African investment fund. This change was approved at a meeting of SNI’s board of directors on March 28 in Casablanca, said the company in a statement noting that […]

Farming: Morocco-Proposed Triple A Initiative at Focus of Meeting at AfDB

The initiative for the Adaptation of African agriculture, presented by Morocco during the COP22 in Marrakech in 2016 was at the focus of a meeting in Abidjan between Moroccan Minister of Agriculture Aziz Akhannouch and President of the African Development Bank Akinuwumi Adesina. The AfDB President expressed at the meeting the African institution’s support to […]

West African Sahel sees soaring drug seizures, as UN calls for dismantling trafficking networks

Drug trafficking in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger continues to undermine security and economic development in the West African Sahel region, according to a new report from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) that calls for the dismantling of trafficking networks. In light of the soaring seizures of drugs, especially cocaine, […]