Africa-EU

Morocco awards contract for new Casablanca Airport Terminal

Morocco’s National Airports Office (ONDA) has awarded the construction contract for the new terminal at Casablanca Mohammed V International Airport to a fully Moroccan consortium composed of SGTM and TGCC, the public operator said. The contract, valued at 12.8 billion dirhams, represents the largest airport infrastructure project ever undertaken in the country. According to ONDA, […]

Algerian media turn Afcon 2025 into an exercise of collective denial

Several Algerian TV channels appear to have hit the limit as they try to cover the African Cup of Nations 2025 in Morocco without ever acknowledging, visually or narratively, the country hosting it. Followers of Algerian media get the impression that the current continental tournament has no host nation as if it was held in […]

Protests for jobs in Algeria’s marginalized south turn violent ahead of Hirak anniversary

Algeria’s oil and gas rich south is a tinderbox waiting to explode! The youth in Ouargla and many other cities took to the street, torched tires and blocked roads in violent protests after their calls for jobs and better living conditions fell on deaf regime ears. Unrest is not new to Ouargla where the population […]