Morocco has pledged to phase out coal-fired power generation by 2040, conditional on international support, or in the 2040s unconditionally, marking its first official coal exit timeline. The commitment, outlined in the country’s updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), follows Morocco’s 2023 decision to join the Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA) and signals a major shift […]
French authorities on Tuesday expressed concern about the contingency of deploying paramilitaries of the private Russian company Wagner in Mali, warning that such a deployment could prompt the withdrawal of French troops, who have been fighting jihadist groups there for eight years. News surfaced that Bamako had been in talks with the Wagner company for […]
Police at the Casablanca Mohammed V International Airport seized this Wednesday 17.7 kg of cocaine and arrested two sub-Saharan nationals for their alleged involvement in this international cocaine trafficking. The suspects, aged 31 and 33, were arrested immediately upon their arrival at the airport. They were coming “from a Central African country,” said a statement […]
