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Senegal announces plans to fast track rehabilitation of Dakar-Bamako railway connection

The railway between Mali and Senegal will soon be operational, Senegalese President Macky Sall has announced in his new year address to the nation earlier this week. Mali has signed an agreement with China Railway Construction Corp to renovate a rail line linking its capital Bamako to the border with neighboring Senegal. The rail will […]

Côte d’Ivoire-Morocco: Trade Influx Reaches $200 million, Eagerness to do Better

Moroccan authorities are eager to scale up economic exchanges to their full potential with Côte d’Ivoire even though trade between the two partners has more than doubled over a short period of time. For Mohammed Abbou, Morocco’s Minister of Foreign Trade, Cote d’Ivoire and Morocco can do much better even though trade between the two […]

Italy: Two Moroccans among 11 nabbed for drug trafficking

Italian security forces [Carabinieri] dismantled Wednesday a drug trafficking network made up of 11 individuals, including 2 Moroccans. Two raids in different locations, Verse and Milan region, led to the arrest of the suspects believed active in large-scale hashish and marijuana trafficking. The drugs are shipped from the North African country with the assistance of […]