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UK lauds Morocco’s climate leadership

As it prepares to host COP26 in Glasgow in 2021, the UK reached out to Morocco, host of COP22, which it described as a climate leader. The remarks were made by COP26 President and the British Secretary of State for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy, Alok Sharma, at a video teleconference with Morocco’s Energy Minister […]

WB warns against impact of drought & water stress in Morocco

The World Bank has warned against the macroeconomic impact of droughts and water scarcity in Morocco wherein economic growth is expected to slow down in 2022 to 1.3 pc from 7.9 pc posted last year. While low rainfall shocks have historically been a driver of macroeconomic volatility in Morocco, droughts tended to be followed by […]

Equatorial Guinea: Manuel Osa Nsue Nsua appointed new Prime Minister

Equatorial Guinea has a new Prime Minister. President Teodoro Obiang Nguema appointed Central Bank Director Manuel Osa Nsue Nsua on August 17, according to a decree issued almost three weeks after the resignation of the previous government, which he had deemed “ineffective”. A young banker to manage the government, that’s the choice of the president […]