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Morocco’s Inwi launches mobile payments

Morocco’s second largest telecom operator, Inwi, launched mobile payment services becoming the first in Morocco to offer such facilitation to its subscribers. Dubbed Inwi Money, the new service would help Morocco achieve its financial inclusion goals notably through reaching population in isolated areas. Inwi Money comes less than a year after the Central Bank gave […]

Niger gives Mali, Burkina Faso permit to intervene in event of ECOWAS military operation

Niger, led by a junta, Thursday August 24 indicated that Mali and Burkina Faso can intervene military on its soil should the country be confronted by any aggression in the backdrop of a possible military action by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), to restore deposed leader Mohamed Bazoum. Oumarou Ibrahim Sidi, the […]

FAO hails Moroccan sustainable biodiversity project

The UN Food & Agriculture Organization has praised the resilience of a watershed management project in Morocco, which illustrates how the reduction of disaster and climate risks faced by communities can reduce poverty while increasing biodiversity. In its report “The State of the World’s Forests 2020”, FAO shed light on this pilot project carried out […]