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Libya’s Red Crescent Society has rescued 404 migrants off the eastern coast near Tobruk after they were found in distress aboard 10 boats in the Mediterranean Sea. The operation, conducted in partnership with the UN refugee Agency, saw emergency teams provide immediate medical and humanitarian support upon disembarkation. The incident underscores a recent surge in […]
Sudan has recorded a sharp rise in mining revenues, with artisanal gold collections reaching 113 per cent of first-quarter targets, the Sudanese Mineral Resources Company reported on Thursday, April 23. Gold production reached 89 per cent of projected output, reinforcing the sector’s central role in sustaining the economy amid ongoing conflict. Artisanal mining continues to […]
The Government of Mauritania has approved a draft decree allocating 40 hectares of land in Chami to the National Industrial and Mining Company for the development of a steel production plant and associated facilities. The project, aligned with national industrial policy, is expected to enhance the company’s operational efficiency. It is also aimed to strengthen […]
Moroccan engineering firm Cegelec has secured a contract worth more than two billion dirhams to design and construct a suite of high-voltage electricity transmission and generation assets in Guinea, the company announced this week. The project, carried out through its subsidiary VINCI Energies Guinée, was launched officially on April 18 at Kamissaya in the prefecture […]
Morocco is bucking a global trend on corporate insolvencies, recording a decline in business failures at a time when the rest of the world is heading into a fifth consecutive year of rising defaults. According to a report published on April 22 by trade credit insurer Allianz Trade, Morocco’s corporate insolvencies fell two percent in […]
Algerian authorities have sentenced French Algerian writer Kamel Daoud to three years in prison in absentia and fined him €35,000, in a ruling critics say epitomizes the regime’s sustained effort to suppress debate about the country’s civil war. Daoud, who won the 2024 Prix Goncourt for his novel Houris, announced the verdict on his X […]
The 6th annual Ministerial Conference of the “AAA” initiative (Adaptation of African Agriculture), held on Wednesday in Meknes on the sidelines of the 18th International Agriculture Show in Morocco (SIAM), concluded with the adoption of a Declaration meant to boost climate-resilient Agriculture. Aware of the urgency, and following up on the resolutions of COP30 while […]
The Special Representative of the UN retary-General and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya Hanna Tetteh told the UN ecurity Council that Libya is facing growing instability due to stalled political progress, a worsening economy, and prsistent institutional divisions. Addressing the Council on Wednesday, she cautioned that some Libyan actors are bypassing […]
Princesses Lalla Khadija, Lalla Meryem, and Lalla Hasnaa, accompanied by Ms. Brigitte Macron, attended on Wednesday evening the opening show of the Royal Theater of Rabat, an architectural masterpiece with futuristic design which harmoniously blends traditional and modern aesthetics. The show started with a film screening on Royal Theater, an institution reflecting the cultural and […]
Improved rainfall this year reinforced Morocco’s livestock outlook in the 2025–2026 easing feed constraints, lowering production costs and strengthening one of the most structurally important components of the rural economy, according to official data, which shows that the sector now represents 35% of agricultural GDP. Cumulative rainfall increased 82.3% by the end of the winter, […]