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Agadir first Moroccan commune to issue bond

The city of Agadir has made a successful issuance of Morocco’s first municipal bond of 1 billion dirhams to fund its development plan. The dirham-denominated bond sale targeted national and international institutional investors as the commune braces for a facelift. The European Bank for reconstruction and development (EBRD) has supported Agadir’s bond with an investment […]

Morocco: King hands appointment Dahirs to several new ambassadors; receives new members of Constitutional Court

King Mohammed VI received, Thursday at the Royal Palace in Rabat, several new Moroccan ambassadors and handed them their appointment Dahirs. The newly appointed ambassadors are Youssef Amrani who will head Morocco’s mission in the United States of America; Mohamed Ait Ouali appointed Ambassador to Egypt; Abdelkader El Ansari, Morocco’s new Ambassador to China; Ahmed […]

The many faces of apartheid: South Africa calls for Israel to be declared an ‘apartheid state’

Israel should be classified as an apartheid state, South Africa’s Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor said Tuesday (26 July), proposing that the UN General Assembly should establish a committee to verify whether it satisfied its requirements. Pandor evoked comparisons between the Palestinian narrative and South Africa’s history of racial segregation at the Palestinian Heads of Mission […]