An ECOWAS summit opened on Sunday (7 July), a day after the military rulers of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger signed a confederation treaty in the latest show of their shift away from traditional regional and Western allies. During a summit in the Niger’s capital of Niamey on Saturday (6 July), the three junta leaders […]
Former Moroccan Olympic Champion Nawal El Moutawakil was elected vice-president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) during the Committee’s 142nd session held in Paris. Moutawakil was elected IOC vice-president alongside Argentina’s Gerardo Werthein, with their terms of office beginning on August 10, after the end of the 142nd IOC session, the Committee said in a […]
Morocco’s foreign exchange reserves rose 16.1% compared to the same period last year, the Central bank, Bank Al Maghreb said. By October 14, Morocco’s foreign exchange reserves stood at 250.1 billion dirhams up from 248.9 billion dirhams registered in the first week of September, the central bank said in its weekly statistics. This improvement of […]
