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The announcement by Morocco’s phosphates and fertilizers producer OCP to double its soil nutrient exports to Africa was a boon for a continent that bears the brunt of the surge in commodities prices due to the Russia-Ukraine war. OCP said last week it will bolster its fertilizers exports to Africa to 4 million tons in […]
The United States has outlined the measures the government of Zimbabwe can take for Washington to end its sanctions on the country, but warns that confidence building measures are needed for bilateral re-engagement. On 19 October, the US Department of State called for President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government to prosecute former and current regime officials responsible […]
At least 150 people including children have been killed in two days of fighting in the latest ethnic clashes between members of the Hausa people and rival groups over land disputes in Sudan’s southern Blue Nile state. The fighting is some of the worst in recent months, and crowds took to the streets the state’s […]
Libyan factions’ leaders, namely President of the Libyan parliament Aguila Saleh and President of the Libyan High Council of State Khaled Al-Mishri held talks in Morocco in a bid to relaunch dialogue and find a political solution to end their country’s long-running dispute. The two officials’ meeting in Rabat highlighted Friday by agreement to implement […]
Moroccan national institute of agronomy and Israel’s Volcani center of agricultural research have agreed to enhance cooperation, exchange experiences and know-how in farming and agricultural research. The agreement was sealed on the sidelines of the 1st international conference on food production technologies from the sea & the desert held from 18 to 20 October in […]
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and the Washington-based rights group the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP) have condemned the Algerian authorities’ continuing repression, harassment, persecution and arbitrary detention of journalists. In a joint report they submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council for its upcoming periodic review in Geneva, the two […]
Morocco’s OCP has donated Senegal 25,000 tons of phosphate products for the benefit of Senegalese small farmers. The products were handed over, Thursday in Diamniadio, 30 km from Dakar, at a ceremony attended by the Senegalese Minister of Agriculture, Rural Equipment and Food Sovereignty, Aly Ngouille Ndiaye, Director of OCP’s subsidiary in West Africa, Mohamed […]
Morocco, in the person of its Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Omar Hilale, has been appointed by President of the UN General Assembly, Csaba Kőrösi, to co-facilitate, with Israeli peer Gilad Erdan, the first-ever UN process of negotiation of the political declaration that will crown the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the […]
South Africa’s “gesticulations” and “agitations” around the Moroccan Sahara reflect its “inability to act on the case,” said Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita. “Rolling out a rag or a red carpet does not alter the case, but rather expresses inability to influence,” said Bourita at a press briefing in Rabat Thursday after his meeting with […]
The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohamed bin Salman announced Thursday that the second edition of the Middle East Green Initiative (MGI) Summit and the Saudi Green Initiative (SGI) Forum will be held in Egypt’s Sharm El Sheikh, in tandem with the UN climate change summit, COP27. The MGI Summit will be held on November […]