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AfDB Lends Morocco €150 Mln for Local Sustainable Development & Infrastructure Projects

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved an additional €150 million loan for Morocco’s Communal Equipment Fund (French acronym FEC) to enable it Finance 26 infrastructure projects focusing on water, sanitation, urban mobility, energy efficiency, and social facilities in over 30 municipalities. The AfDB has also agreed to provide FEC nearly €1 million in technical […]

Belgium’s Parliament Endorses Security Cooperation with Morocco

The Belgian parliament Thursday passed a bill endorsing security cooperation between Belgium and Morocco in the wake of Brussels attacks after it surfaced that Morocco helped Belgian authorities foil an IS attack against nuclear facilities in the country planned part of the Brussels terror acts. The bill also came in the wake of an agreement […]

Italian Priest kidnapped in Niger ‘appears in militants’ video’

An Italian priest who was kidnapped in Niger in September 2018 has been seen alive in a video by Islamist militants. Father Pierluigi Maccalli, a priest of the Society for African Missions, was kidnapped in 2018 by armed men in Bomoanga village – located more than 100km from the capital, Niamey. Air Info newspaper, which […]