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AfDB group to help boost water resources in Morocco through technical assistance

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has recently approved a €201,000 grant to Morocco, through its Technical Assistance Fund for Middle-Income Countries, with the objective of providing the government with technical assistance for studies on the design of dams, river development and inter-basin interconnection studies. The assistance, destined to the Directorate of Hydraulic Development of the […]

Morocco’s Lesieur Cristal takes control of Avril’s activity in Africa

Morocco’s Lesieur Cristal, a company that produces cooking oil and soap, took control of Avril’s activity in Africa, following a merger-acquisition, by which the Moroccan company bought Senegal’s Oleosen. In addition to Oleosen, which produces cooking oil, the Moroccan group took control of Cristal Tunisia which besides table oil also makes soap. Lesieur Cristal has […]

Moroccan archeologists unearth 1.3 million-year-old hand-axe site

Moroccan archeologists uncovered recently near Casablanca the oldest stone age hand-axe manufacturing site in north Africa, dating back to 1.3 million years. The discovery pushes back by hundreds of thousands of years the start date in north Africa of the Acheulian stone-tool industry, associated with the human ancestor Homo erectus, researchers said at a news […]