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US military games in Sahel bring together Morocco, Algeria

The Moroccan and Algerian armies will both take part at the US-led Flintlock 2019 military games in Burkina Faso and Mauritania from February 18 to March 1, 2019. The two North African rivals have closed borders since 1994 with Algeria backing a separatist front that waged a war against Morocco until 1991. More than 2,000 […]

Morocco’s MASEN, main interlocutor for green hydrogen investors

Morocco’s green hydrogen offer to investors has assigned a prominent role to the country’s sustainable energy agency MASEN as the main interlocutor for investors. The agency is tasked with examining projects by investors and coordinating between them and authorities. On March 10, the Prime Minister’s office said the offer is ready and promised 1 million […]

Somalia’s new law ‘nullifies’ ‘illegal’ Ethiopia-Somaliland port-access deal

Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has signed a law that “nullifies” the contentious memorandum of understanding between Ethiopia and a breakaway Somaliland region in a largely symbolic move expressing his government’s displeasure over the deal to grant port access. As part of the deal that was announced on 1 January, the landlocked Ethiopia will gain […]