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Morocco Selects Ashurst, HSBC as Advisors for ‘Gas to Power’ Project

Morocco’s Electricity Utility (ONEE) selected two British firms as technical and financial advisors for its gas to power project. The London-based law firm Ashurst has been selected under a contract worth €1.9 million, while the Emirati branch of the British bank HSBC won a legal contract standing at $7.2 million. The gas to power project […]

UN-Sahara: Experts & NGOs Support Autonomy Plan, Slam Polisario’s Crimes against Women & Children

More international law experts, university professors and human rights militants continue to support, at the United Nations, Morocco’s realistic autonomy plan for the Sahara and denounce the sufferings endured by the sequestered Sahrawis in the Polisario-controlled Tindouf camps, Southern Algeria. Addressing the UN fourth Committee, convening in New York, French expert André Grimblatt said that […]

AfDB launches transaction guarantee to support SMEs, trade in Africa

The African Development Bank, through its Financial Sector Development’s Trade Finance operations, has launched a Transaction Guarantee instrument designed to provide up to 100% cover for non-payment risk to regional and international banks, for trade transactions initiated by local banks in Africa. The guarantee will cover an array of trade finance instruments, including confirmed letters […]