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Morocco’s high speed TGV train, the first of its kind in Africa, is expected to transport 5 million passengers in 2023. Last year, the line attracted 4.2 million travelers and 3 million passengers in 2019. These figures have been disclosed by Head of Moroccan railway operator (ONCF), Mohamed Rabie Khlie, during the 11th UIC High-Speed […]
Morocco’s Royal Office has issued this Monday a statement warning the Secretariat General of the Justice and Development Party (PJD) over “irresponsible excessive views and dangerous approximations” concerning Morocco’s relations with Israel,” pointing out that the instrumentalization of the Kingdom’s foreign policy in a domestic partisan agenda constitutes “a dangerous, unacceptable precedent,” and recalling that […]
London-listed Chariot, an Africa-focused transitional energy company, has completed the Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) on the key components of its flagship Anchois gas development project offshore Morocco and has alled for Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) commercial proposals. Chariot began the FEED for the Anchois development in June 2022, after raising $25.5 million, the […]
As the UNHCR has warned of escalating violence in North Kivu province, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, that has forced nearly 300,000 people to flee the region last month, a United Nations Security Council delegation wrapped up a three-day visit to the country on Sunday March 12, stressing the urgent need to find a […]
Egypt and Greece are working to hire an international consultancy office to carry out feasibility studies for the $4 billion electricity interconnection project between the two countries, Asharq Business reports, citing 3 unnamed sources familiar with the matter. “Selecting a consultant is the most important step of the project,” one of the sources said, adding […]
As extremist violence in the Sahel region spreads southwards toward coastal states, military personnel from several African countries, including Morocco, are being trained in counter-insurgency tactics as part of the annual United States-led military exercise known as Flintlock. The US military launched on march 1 its annual military training exercise, which is aimed at helping […]
Mali’s interim government said it would postpone a constitutional referendum that had been set to take place this month, and which was seen as a key step on the country’s path towards restoring democracy after a military takeover in 2020. “The transitional government informs national and international opinion that the date of the referendum scheduled […]
Microsoft, through its Africa Transformation Office, and Morocco’s OCP Africa announced at the 5th United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5), held in Doha, March 5-9, a partnership to support smallholder farmers and other stakeholders across Africa by 2025. OCP Africa, an African company that provides fertilizer solutions tailored to local conditions and […]
EuroMed Rights NGO has voiced deep concern over the escalating oppression in Kaïs Saïed’s Tunisia which has intensified its campaign of arrests, intimidation, denigration and targeted attacks against political opponents, journalists, trade unionists and civil society representatives. The vocal critics of the Tunisian regime are unfairly accused of conspiracy to undermine state security, corruption, or […]
Morocco has underlined Algeria’s responsibility, as host country, to guarantee safe and unrestricted humanitarian access to the Tindouf camps and to allow free registration of the populations sequestered in the camps, in accordance with its obligations and the provisions of international humanitarian law. This was outlined in a speech delivered by Morocco’s Permanent Representative in […]