Morocco’s state-owned rail operator ONCF raised $200 million via a green bond that was five times over-subscribed with a total demand reaching $1 billion. The bond was part of ONCF’s green push, as it plans to expand the national rail network. The four-tranche bond had maturities ranging from 10 to 15 years at rates varying […]
In the first five months of 2018, more than 100,000 Chinese tourists visited Morocco, which lifted the visa on Chinese nationals in 2016. Last year, they were 120,000 Chinese tourists among nearly 11 million tourists who visited the North African kingdom where Chinese restaurants are mushrooming. At the China-Morocco Tourism Forum held in Casablanca in […]
Head of Tunisia moderate Islamist Ennahda party, Rached Ghannouchi, has vowed to fight and stand up to the hardline salafists who showed lately their real face when they added oil to the fire in the deadly violence that rocked the country over anti-Islam film. “These people pose a threat not only to Ennahda but to […]
