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HRC: Forty countries reiterate steadfast backing to Morocco’s sovereignty over its Sahara

Some forty countries have reiterated in Geneva their firm support for Morocco’s full sovereignty over its entire Saharan territory and commended Morocco’s autonomy plan offering a “realistic” political solution to the decades-long Sahara conflict In a joint statement read out Tuesday by the Delegate of Central African Republic at the 60th session of the Human […]

COVID-19: Over half Moroccan enterprises have ceased operations – HCP study

Morocco’s high commission for planning issued bleak figures on the impact of coronavirus, which pushed 142,000 companies to halt activity, forcing 700,000 to temporary or lasting unemployment. In total, 57% of Moroccan enterprises, mostly small and medium sized have ceased operations. These comprise 135,000 enterprises that closed temporarily and 6,300 that declared bankruptcy, the HCP’s […]

Egypt to launch construction of first bus powered by natural gas in 2022

Egypt is mulling plans to start manufacturing the country’s first bus powered by natural gas in 2022, Minister of Business Sector, Hisham Tawfik announced, according to Arab Finance. Some 70% of the local components of the buses will be manufactured to work with natural gas, Tawfik reportedly added. The busses will accommodate 14 to 50 […]