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Catalan firms invest €45 Million in Morocco’s industrial sectors

Morocco and Catalonia strengthened their economic partnership Wednesday with the signing of four investment protocols worth 500 million dirhams (approximately €45 million), targeting strategic industrial sectors and promising over 700 direct jobs across Tangier, Tetouan, and Kenitra. The agreements, signed in Rabat between the Moroccan government and Catalan enterprises, cover high-value sectors including automotive, waste […]

ECOWAS charts new course as Sahel states assert their independence

In a historic shift for West Africa’s political landscape, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has begun relocating key institutions from Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger — nations that formally withdrew from the bloc earlier this year to form the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). During an extraordinary session in Accra, ECOWAS Council […]

Joint Security Action in Sahel between Morocco’s engagement and Algeria’s Ambiguity

Since the launch of the G5 counter-terrorism task force by Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad, Algeria has shown little if no support for the initiative, which it deems as a move by France to boost influence in what Algiers would love to become its backyard. Algeria’s stand against collective regional security efforts stands […]