IFC to help Crédit du Maroc Bank facilitate development of SMEs, women’s entrepreneurship, green projects

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) will help Crédit du Maroc Bank facilitate the development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), women’s entrepreneurship, and green projects with a $100 million financing package. This agreement is in line with IFC’s strategy in Morocco, which aims to support private sector-led economic growth and job creation by promoting the […]

Libya: Russian Oil Company resumes activity but security still to be consolidated

Tatneft, a Russian oil company, has agreed to begin its operations again in Libya after the circumstances of the uprising against Ghadaffi no longer permitted its staff to continue with their daily activities at the Mellitah energy complex. The company said that its staff members have begun returning to the plant which is located in […]

Macky Sall orders Premier to curb illegal migration to Canary Islands right from home

Senegalese President Macky Sall Wednesday November 8 instructed the country’s Prime Minister to curtail all illegal migration attempts via the sea to the Spanish autonomous territory of the Canary Islands, after hundreds of Senegalese, including women and children, were rescued over the week-end off Mauritania’s coasts. “The Head of State referred to the National Strategy […]