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Tunisia’s Foreign minister Nabil Ammar is currently on a working visit to Italy, as Rome presses Tunis to curb waves of illegal migrants batting its coasts. Ammar is expected to meet with Antonio Tajani, his Italian counterpart. The two sides are to discuss global economic interests of both countries, clamping down on illegal migration, increasing […]
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), an offshoot of the World Bank, agreed to lend Morocco’s phosphates and fertilizers giant OCP 100 million euros to fund the building of four solar plants, the two parties said. The agreement was announced during the International Monetary Fund-World Bank Group Spring Meetings in Washington DC. The green loan will […]
Morocco’s water department plans to announce the company that would build Casablanca’s desalination plant by year’s end, water and equipment minister Nizar Baraka said, adding that the competing companies include Moroccan ones. Consecutive droughts emptied many Moroccan dams pushing the government to invest in desalination to free dam water for inner regions. By 2030, Morocco […]
As Burkina Faso is dogged in insecurity, 18.846 of its citizens have found refuge in Côte d’Ivoire, Ivorian authorities indicated Wednesday. The national security council, headed by President Alassan Ouattara, had it that the refugees have settled in north and north-east areas of the country. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees conducted a biometric […]
Germany’s Defense Minister, Boris Pistorius, Wednesday said the European country will use Niger as base as it remains committed to the Sahel region flagged by ramp insecurity. “Our future military engagement in the Sahel will focus on Niger,” he said as he embarked on a visit to the African country. “Security in the Sahel region […]
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is pushing for an audit of the country’s mining contracts with China, which it says heavily favor Beijing, arguing that the Central African country wants a bigger slice of the proceeds from the mining and export of its resources by Chinese companies. DRC’s national assembly speaker Christophe Mboso has […]
Burundi and Tanzania have floated a tender for designing and constructing about 282 kilometers of electrified railway, part of East Africa’s wider cross-border electric railway line plans aiming at boosting the competition for cargo business in the region and helping the region tap a US$3 trillion single market opportunity. What will be the continent’s second […]
King Mohammed VI, Commander of the Faithful, accompanied by Crown Prince Moulay El Hassan, Prince Moulay Rachid and Prince Moulay Ismail, chaired, on Wednesday at the Royal Palace in Casablanca, the 4th religious lecture of the holy month of Ramadan. This lecture was delivered by the Dean of Jordan’s Sharia School, Abderrahmane Ibrahim Zaid Al […]
The Royal Armed Forces will receive the U.S. rocket launchers (HIMARS) and guided bombs (JSOW) that will enhance further Morocco’s military capabilities to encounter threats to its stability and regional peace. On Tuesday, the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency said the State Department has approved the sale to Morocco of 18 High Mobility Artillery Rocket […]
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will push this week for urgent resolution of requests by Ghana and Zambia for restructuring of their sovereign debts, as a record number of developing nations are at risk of a debt crisis, with ballooning inflation escalating borrowing costs. Yellen, who is scheduled to meet with her counterparts at this […]