King Mohammed VI

Morocco Softens Regularization Requirements for Migrants

Morocco granted residency permits to 14,000 out of 28,000 applicants as part of the second phase of a migrant regularization campaign that lasted from December 2016 to December 2017. The softening of the regularization requirements was taken upon Royal instruction with the aim to help the remaining 15,000 applicants to have access to employment, social […]

Egypt sidelines linkage of Nile and River Congo for technicalities

Alaa Yassine, the Egyptian minister of Irrigation and Water Resources advisory for dam affairs has finally announced that the proposed project of linking the Nile with River Congo will finally not go ahead due to “technical reasons.” The project was proposed by Sarko Overseas, a private company owned by Ibrahim Al-Fayoumi, but Egypt decided not […]

Oil: Shell, NNPC launch $10bn deep-water project in Nigeria

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCo) have invited bidders to tender for a $10 billion deep-water project in the West African nation. The prospective bidders are invited to submit their applications packages that comprise engineering, procurement, and construction of the Bonga South West/Aparao (BSWA) project. The project […]