Egypt Eyes $10 bln Foreign Investment in Oil, Gas

Egypt is expecting foreign investment in the oil and gas sector to reach about $10 billion in the 2018/19 fiscal year, Petroleum Minister Tarek El Molla said. According to Molla, Egypt expects foreign investments to total the same amount for the current fiscal year, marking a 25 percent increase from the previous year. Last year […]

Morocco Adopts Emergency Plan to Reinvigorate Tourism

Morocco’s tourism sector is undergoing a crisis propelled by decreasing tourist arrivals amid a tense regional context marked by the spread of confusions in several European tourist markets on the backdrop of the security situation in North Africa. To boost the Kingdom’s attractiveness to foreign tourists, Morocco’s tourism promotion office (ONMT) adopted an emergency plan […]

Sahara: UN Chief reaffirms the fundamentals of the political solution

The UN Secretary General reaffirmed, in his latest report to the Security Council on the Moroccan Sahara, made public on Friday evening, the fundamentals of the political solution to this regional dispute, as recommended by the Security Council in all its resolutions since 2007. On October 30, 2019, the Security Council adopted resolution 2494 by […]