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Egypt to build $228 mln facility to turn rice straw into wood

Egypt will set up a facility to convert rice straw into wood in a bid to limit air pollution resulting from burning the straw. The $228 million plant, located in the Nile Delta’s Beheira Province, will produce 205,000 square meters a year of medium-density fiberboards (MDF), using technologies developed by German engineering firm Siempelkamp. The […]

Tunisia: Powerful UGTT calls for strike after student stabbed teacher

UGTT, Tunisia’s most powerful workers’ union, has called for a general strike for this Tuesday to denounce the stabbing of a high school teacher by a student in the costal town of Ezzahra, south of capital Tunis. Sahbi Ben Slama, a high-school History and Geography teacher was assaulted by a student who stabbed him multiple […]

Morocco second largest frozen fish supplier to Russia

Morocco became the second largest supplier of frozen fish to the Russian market with 2200 tons in the first ten months this year, Russian official data showed.   Out of the 10,000 tons of fish imported by Russia, Vietnam came first with 2500 tons.   Russia and Morocco also consider renewing a fisheries deal that […]