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EIB pledges €1 Bln support for Morocco’s post earthquake reconstruction

The European Investment Bank has pledged to lend Morocco €1 billion over the next three years to support the country’s efforts to rebuild the public infrastructures affected by the powerful & deadly earthquake that hit Al Haouz region on Sept.08, 2023. The first tranche of the loan (€ 500 million) was signed lately in Rabat […]

Morocco hosts Libya’s first international economic forum

Morocco hosted the first Libyan economic forum where the UN-backed Government of National Accord seeks a bigger role of the private sector and closer cooperation with Moroccan enterprises. Some 400 participants mostly from Libya gathered in Rabat for the event as Libya struggles to rebuild the country after a devastating civil war. Organizers from the […]

Iran’s Pyrrhic Victory

The one persistent feature of Iranian foreign policy since the toppling of the Shah in 1979 was its rather grandiose optimism about its own ascendance to a hegemonic role in the Middle East. The ayatollah’s Islamic Republic never considered the revolution it had kidnapped to turn inward. Instead, the leaders of the Islamic Republic of […]