The Moroccan government, electricity and water supplier ONEE together with a consortium including Mohammed VI Investment Fund, TAQA Morocco and Nareva agreed to join forces to develop a sweeping infrastructure program aimed at securing water and bolstering energy production by 2030, for a total investment cost estimated at $14 billion. The investments have been ushered […]
Morocco’s Royal Navy coastguard, patrolling the southern waters, rescued, on Saturday, around 151 illegal migrants who were boarding a wooden boat. The migrants were about to drown off the city of Dakhla. The migrants, mostly sub-Saharans, were handed to the gendarmerie in the same city.
Two Mauritanian web journalists were Saturday set free temporarily after being arrested for defamation on Thursday, reports say. Jeddna Deida and Babakar Baye Ndiaye, respectively managing editor of “Mauriweb” and webmaster of “Cridem” were handed provisional release following their arrest on Thursday after the President’s son Badr Ould Abdel Aziz accused them of defamation for […]
