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Morocco: Local & Regional Elections, a rendezvous with History

Some 14 million voters go to the polls this Friday September 4 to elect 31,503 members of communal councils and 678 representatives to sit at the newly created regional councils that are part of the regionalization process the country is set to embark on as stipulated by the Constitution adopted in 2011. These local and […]

South Africa: Chairman of Central Energy Fund Sacked

The director and chairperson of South Africa’s Central Energy Fund board has been dismissed, the minister of energy, Jeff Radebe said in a statement. The Central Energy Fund (CEF) manages defined energy interests on behalf of the government, including the development of the country’s oil and gas assets. The board of the CEF also oversees […]

Asthon: Morocco is key EU partner

The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, Catherine Ashton has described Morocco as “a key partner of the European Union” and hailed the constructive role played by the North African nation on the international scene “to resolve instability in the Sahel and in Syria”. Ashton, who met lately in Brussels with Moroccan […]