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The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Ltd, Africa’s biggest oil producer, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a Norwegian company to build a floating LNG plant in the West African country to boost its domestic supplies and exports. Nigeria’s state oil giant has inked the MoU with Golar Liquefied Natural Gas Energy (GLNG) […]
King Mohammed VI of Morocco said Arab financial institutions should pool effort to address economic challenges in a context of geopolitical tensions and inflationary pressures while working together to fund climate action and concessionary finance in the region. To rise up to global challenges and risks to energy and food security in particular, “we clearly […]
As if the embezzlement of human assistance destined to the Tindouf camps populations was not enough, the Polisario leaders also set eye on fuel as evidenced by the recent interception of a truck carrying fuel diverted by a Polisario leader. Young Saharawis have actually intercepted, at the exit of the Tindouf camps, a fuel tank […]
Fitch agency has awarded Morocco ‘BB+’ rating consolidated with a stable outlook thanks to the country’s sound macroeconomic policies that has supported resilience to shocks, a favorable debt composition and a comfortable external liquidity buffer. Economic growth slowed in 2022 to 1.2% from 7.9% in 2021, as agricultural output contracted by 15% due to a […]
Morocco’s King inaugurated on Friday in Tangier the Mohammed VI University Hospital Center, a new medical facility offering to the inhabitants of the Northern region comprehensive healthcare services and advanced training to nurses, doctors and phamacists. The new medical complex has a 797-bed capacity. It is built on a 23-hectare site located near the regional […]
A third plane of Royal Air Maroc coming from Sudan landed early Friday afternoon at Mohammed V International Airport, carrying 154 Moroccan nationals and a Senegalese student evacuated from Sudan, after the deterioration of the security situation in this country. A total of 293 Moroccans had arrived Wednesday from Sudan in two RAM flights carrying […]
Two Moroccan cycling adventurers remain missing after entering Burkina Faso on their way to Niger, raising many questions on their whereabouts and sparking fears over their fate. The Moroccan Embassy in Ouagadougou is working with local authorities to solve the mystery of the two Moroccan nationals, Abderrahmane Serhani and Driss Fatihi, who vanished between Burkina […]
Côte d’Ivoire and The Gambia signed Thursday three agreements spanning several areas. Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara made the announcement following a meeting with his visiting Gambian counterpart Adama Barrow. The agreements, Ouattara told the media, touch on air cooperation that will lead to flight connection between the two countries via the national carriers of both […]
Dozens of soldiers were killed and scores of others wounded in an assault on Thursday April 27 on a military base in eastern Burkina Faso in the latest outburst of violence in the West African country. The attack targeted the military detachment in Ougarou in Burkina Faso’s Est administrative region, the military-led government said, leaving […]
Russia will help spur sports in Togo under a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the field of sport education, inked this week. LidiBessi Kama, Togo’s Sports Minister and her Russian counterpart Oleg Matytsin inked the deal in Lome, Togo on April 25. The agreement will promote and intensify the exchange of programs, expertise and information […]