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African policy-makers worry about economic impact of Israel-Hamas conflict

The renewed flare-up in Israeli-Palestinian conflict has caused an outrage across Africa but it has also prompted heated debates in different countries in the continent about how to reconcile the gap between their economic and trade goals and their political and cultural realities. Thousands of protesters have marched across the Middle East and Africa on […]

UNECA: Morocco, driver of Africa’s economic integration

Morocco, with its strong tax policies and investment in strategic infrastructures, can help to drive and speed up economic integration in Africa, according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa In a tweet posted following the meeting held Monday in Addis Ababa between ECA Executive Secretary Claver Gatete and Morocco’s Industry & Trade Minister […]

Morocco commits 8.5 bln dollars to clean mobility by 2029

Morocco has mobilized more than 78 billion dirhams ($8.5 billion) to develop a clean, modern, and multimodal public transport system by 2029, Abdellatif Maâzouz, president of the Casablanca-Settat Regional Council, said during a side event at COP30. The investment plan allocates 11 billion dirhams for the acquisition of 3,750 next-generation buses and 67 billion dirhams […]