Morocco’s dams reached a national filling rate of 70.6% on Feb. 16 after a new surge in water reserves driven by heavy winter rainfall, official data showed. Total storage climbed to 11.83 billion cubic metres, up 899 million m³ from Feb. 7. The sharp rise was led by the country’s largest reservoirs. Al Wahda, Morocco’s […]
South Africa’s Minerals Council on Tuesday warned that electricity price increases by state-owned power utility Eskom will lead to over 90,000 job losses in South Africa’s gold and platinum mining industries over the next three years. Earlier this year, South Africa’s National Energy Regulator said that Eskom could hike tariffs by 9.41 percent in 2019, […]
Investment opportunities in Morocco’s agribusiness sector and its attractiveness to operators in the United Kingdom, were at the focus of a webinar organized Tuesday by the British Chamber of Commerce for Morocco (BritCham). Speaking on this occasion, official from the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Hamid Baadi, highlighted the importance of the national food sector, […]
