British daily Telegraph has called on London to follow in the footsteps of the United States in seeking to add the Algeria-backed Polisario militia in its black-list. After “having supported Morocco’s autonomy plan in Sahara, the UK must support both its ally Morocco, our partner the United States, and our own national security interests by […]
Morocco set up the High Atlas Mountains development agency to oversee reconstruction efforts in the earthquake-hit areas. The agency was set up in implementation of Royal directives which urged speeding up reconstruction efforts after the 7-magnitude quake that left nearly 3000 people dead, and damaged 60,000 homes. The agency will oversee projects aiming at rehousing […]
Dallas-based Kosmos Energy’s oil search in Mauritania once again led to the discovery of an offshore gas reservoir in a well located 60km north of the Tortue-1 gas discovery that opened the basin. The latest discovered field, described as “a large gas resource,” is preliminary estimated to have 5 trillion cubic feet of gross resources […]
