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Morocco accelerates desalination push in response to water stress

The recent $14 bln deal between Morocco’s water and electricity provider ONEE and a consortium comprising TAQA Morocco and Nareva, provides for setting up desalination plants across Morocco, in response to the country’s strategy to reduce reliance on dams and groundwater in a context of drought. Under this deal, Morocco will add 900 million cubic […]

AfCFTA must boost intra-African agrifood trade, become food self-reliant

The Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) must aim at reversing the unsustainable trend of excessive dependence by many of its members on imports of basic commodities, such as food and strategic agricultural inputs that has only exacerbated their vulnerabilities. This is the main message from a recent webinar organized by the UN Food and […]

Egypt-based Edita Food Industries to launch production plant in Morocco by end of 2021

Edita Food Industries (EFID), one of Egypt’s largest food companies, will inaugurate a production factory in Morocco by end of this year, a top official of the company told Almal News.   Hani Barzi, Chairman of the company told the media that the factory was planned for last year but the pandemic and the lockdown […]