The agreements signed between Morocco and Nigeria to build an offshore gas pipeline has effectively buried plans to achieve the Trans-Saharan Gas Project that was mulled in 2002 to bring Nigerian gas to the Mediterranean through Niger and Algeria. Former Algerian Interior Minister and ex-Ambassador, Abderrahmane Meziane Cherif bemoaned that his country has been outperformed […]
The Central Bank cut its benchmark interest rate to 2% to boost economic activity, which, like elsewhere in the world, is expected to reel under the impact of the coronavirus outbreak. Drought has complicated the outlook for Morocco, which expected a contraction of agricultural output plunging growth to 2.3%, according to the central bank. The […]
A day after Japan’s Senior Vice Foreign Minister responsible for the Middle East, Europe and America expressed desires of enhancing military cooperation in the Sahel to promote stability, he has added that they are interested in importing gas from Algeria and investing in its energy sector. Senior Vice Foreign Minister Nobuo Kishi is on a […]
