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Tel Aviv gives leeway to Egyptian army to crackdown on Jihadists in military banned northern Sinai

Israel has not only offered condolences to Egypt after the deadly coordinated Islamist attacks in the Sinai Peninsula but also gave a free hand to the Egyptian army on Thursday to do whatever it wants in northern Sinai to stem the Islamist resistance despite a ban from the 1979 Camp David peace accords. Tel Aviv […]

AfBD Approves $200 million Loan to Boost Morocco’s Industrialization Plan

The African Development Bank (AfDB) approved a loan of $200 million to Morocco to boost the country’s industrialization plan, local media said. The loan will help fund the first phase of the support program of the Industrial Acceleration Plan, which aims to create 500,000 jobs by 2020 and to increase the share of industry in […]

Railways: Morocco’s ONCF Receives First Batch of Prima Electric Locomotives

Morocco’s national railway operator ONCF has received lately the first of 30 Prima M4 locomotives being manufactured by the French Alstom company under a €130 million deal concluded in 2018 between the two sides. The Prima M4 locomotives have a nominal power of 5.5 MW. The maximum running speed is 160km/h. Being electric, the M4 […]