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Egypt’s telecom company, Telecom Egypt has tasked Nokia International to build the country’s Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure expected to spur improvement of businesses. The deal signed between Adel Hamed, managing director and CEO of Telecom Egypt, and Henrik Fall, head of cloud services and networks in the Middle East and Africa at Nokia, will […]
The wave of young Algerians trying to reach Spain’s shores has been surging over the past few weeks. On Monday, the Government Delegation of the autonomous community of Murcia confirmed that 103 would-be illegal immigrants from Algeria were intercepted over the last 24 hours on the coast of Murcia, in south-eastern Spain. The 87 men, […]
The overall achievements of the electronic banking activity in Morocco reached 325.9 million transactions that totaled 275 billion dirhams in the first nine months of 2021, according to the Interbank Electronic Banking Center (CMI). This activity, which includes cash withdrawal operations on the ATM network, payment operations in shops and online, payment operations on ATMs […]
Algeria is drowning in social discontent, raising the prospects of a return to mass protests and a violent response from its military autocratic regime, warns U.S. Foreign Policy magazine, noting that Algeria needs a second liberation…this time, from its aged rulers. The country needs to be liberated from its aged rulers who failed to transform […]
Tunisian coast guards Sunday thwarted five illegal migration attempts across the Mediterranean, Webdo Tunis reports. A naval security unit posted at Monastir, central coast of Tunisia and 162 kilometers south of Tunis, seized seven engines, 3 boats, and a quantity of fuel. They also arrested the occupants among whom seven Tunisians from the coastal city […]
Morocco’s 2022 draft budget plans measures to bolster economic recovery, generalize social safety nets, and promote employment in addition to continuing the overhaul of the health and education sectors, a statement of the Royal Palace said. The statement was issued after a Council of Ministers, held Sunday under the chairmanship of King Mohammed VI and […]
King Mohammed VI appointed Mohammed Benchaaboun as Ambassador to France and Youssef Lamrani as Ambassador to the European Union. The decision was announced in a statement following a ministerial council chaired by King Mohammed VI in Fez. Benchaaboun served as a CEO of BCP bank, one of Morocco’s largest lenders, and in 2018 Benchaaboun was […]
The success story of Tanger Med, considered today as the first port infrastructure in the Mediterranean and Africa, was highlighted at the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund held in Washington. Speaking at a panel focused on the “contribution of trade in the post-Covid recovery”, Director General of the Tanger-Med […]
A large panel of African Members of Parliament, former Foreign Ministers and ambassadors, business leaders, experts and academics as well as civil society activists and think tank representatives called, on Saturday from Dar Es Salaam, for the expulsion of the pseudo-SADR from the African Union (AU). The expulsion of the Algeria-backed puppet republic which has […]
Local authorities and security services of the region of Laayoune-Sakia El Hamra on Saturday thwarted three illegal immigration attempts to the Canary Islands. In the town of Foum El Oued (province of Laayoune), security services arrested 20 would-be illegal immigrants, including 12 women and 3 children, who were preparing to take off in an inflatable […]