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AfCFTA calls for streamlined customs processes, visa removal to unleash intra-Africa trade potential

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) needs to remove visas and reduce custom processes to ease movement of goods within the African continent — this is the main appeal voiced by the Pan-African Private Sector, under the umbrella body of the African Business Council (AfBC). During the AfCFTA Business Forum recently held in Cape […]

Morocco’s Arma seeks African expansion

Like many state and private Moroccan companies, waste management company Arma said it plans to set up a waste management plant in Abidjan where it is finalizing deals with suppliers. The company’s CEO Youssef Ahizoun told Reuters the plastic waste recycling plant would be ready within few months. Arma investment would be the first by […]

Spain: Morocco Helps Arrest 30 Drug Traffickers

The Spanish interior ministry announced Sunday the arrest of 30 members of a drug trafficking gang in the south of the country, with the help of Morocco’s authorities. The men, Spaniards and Moroccans, are member of “Las Castanas”; the largest drug trafficking and money laundering gang in Spain. The gang was operating in the Strait […]