Morocco-agro-industry

Optimist-in-chief: Africa’s prosperity depends on Africans to be able to move freely

Despite general skepticism about Africa’s economic promise, Akinwumi Adesina, the chief of the African Development Bank (AfDB), who has been dubbed, “Africa’s optimist-in-chief,” believes that the future of Africa will defy everyone’s expectations. The skepticism is fueled by all the recent negative development affecting Africa: Covid-19 pandemic; the Russia-Ukraine war and its pressure on food […]

UN on damage control mission after de Mistura’s Sahara partition blunder

The UN Secretary General’s Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq downplayed the resurrection by UN Secretary General’s Personal Envoy for the Sahara Sataffan de Mistura of the partition plan, that was categorically rejected by Morocco twenty years ago. De Mistura has said in a briefing to the Security Council last year that he raised the concept of […]

Traffic in Moroccan ports up 5.1% in 2020

Despite challenges posed by the pandemic to international trade, Moroccan ports handled 92.5 million tons in 2020, that is a 5.1% rise compared to a year earlier, the national ports agency said. Imports rose 4.4% to 56.1 million tons due notably to a rise in cereal purchases by 33.4%, sugar (+8.9%), animal feed (+3.4%), coal […]