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Tunisia to install 430,000 “intelligent” meters in Sfax Governorate

Tunisia has secured a $131.7 million loan from the French Development Agency (AFD) to improve the national electricity grid. The smart grid project was announced in 2017 by the Tunisian Electricity and Gas Company (STEG), but was delayed due to lack of funding. The AFD funds will be allocated to the implementation of the first […]

King Salman pardons Egyptians imprisoned in Saudi Arabia

King Salman of Saudi Arabia has pardoned and ordered release of a number of Egyptian citizens jailed in the kingdom as he headed to Egypt to attend the joint European Union-Arab League summit. The prisoners to be released failed to pay legally prescribed fines for violating residency rules, state-run news agency SPA reports. The agency […]

Morocco denounces South Africa’s complicity with Algeria, Polisario in letters to UN Security Council, UN SG

Morocco has denounced South Africa’s complicity with Algeria and the polisario, its unconditional appropriation of Algeria’s geopolitical agenda, and its blind ideological support to the armed separatist group. This came in two letters addressed by Morocco’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Omar Hilale, to the UN Secretary General and to members of the Security […]