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In a significant move towards sustainable energy, the steering committee for Morocco’s Green Hydrogen Initiative, known as “l’Offre Maroc,” held a meeting to discuss the criteria for projects after nearly 40 bids were submitted on a platform run by the Moroccan agency for sustainable energy MASEN. The committee emphasized transparency and competitiveness for bids across […]
Morocco has supplied Spain with two-thirds of its watermelon needs and sold France 45% of its imports of the water intensive fruit in 2023, despite persisting drought. Morocco faces growing competition from Senegal and Mauritania in the European watermelon market. Watermelon farms have been accused of depleting underground water in Moroccan southern desert areas. The […]
Moroccan foreign minister Nasser Bourita highlighted the fundamentals of Morocco’s foreign policy regarding the African continent, stressing the need to promote south-south and trilateral cooperation and advance the Royal initiative to help landlocked Sahel countries access the Atlantic ocean. Speaking at the Indonesia-Africa Forum, in which he represented King Mohammed VI, Bourita said that under […]
At the Indonesia-Africa Forum, Indonesian authorities learned lessons from the laxism of Japanese authorities with participants by imposing that only participants with a valid badge with a nametag can take part in the event, leaving Algeria unable to smuggle the Polisario agents as it did in Tokyo. Algeria has violated diplomatic norms in the Japan-Africa […]
Some 26.4 million people used Moroccan trains to travel in the first six months this year, up 7% from the same period last year, rail operator ONCF said. Revenue grew 8% to 1.26 billion dirhams as more people use the fastest train in Africa Al Bouraq connecting Casablanca to Tangier. In total Al Boraq passengers […]
Morocco received 10 million tourists up to July this year, a record, as the country expects to outperform last year’s arrivals, the finance ministry said. Arrivals in the first seven months were 15% up compared to the same period last year, it said. In the month of July alone, 2.6 million people visited Morocco, up […]
Morocco will share its railway expertise with Senegal under cooperation agreements signed Thursday in Rabat by the two countries’ national railway operators and training centers. The signing ceremony was co-chaired by Morocco’s Minister of Transport Mohammed Abdeljalil and Senegal’s peer Malick Ndiaye. The two ministers lauded the strong ties existing between the two countries and […]
Ghana is taking a bold step into the nuclear age, signing a deal for its first atomic power plant using cutting-edge small modular reactor technology. This move puts the West African nation at the forefront of a global push for cleaner energy solutions. The agreement, inked at a US-Africa summit in Nairobi, will see Ghana […]
Côte d’Ivoire’s economic hub Abidjan is currently hosting a pivotal regional workshop aimed at reviewing the Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) and the Host Country Agreement (HGA) for the Nigeria-Morocco Africa-Atlantic Gas Pipeline project. This crucial event, which runs until August 30, brings together experts and representatives from several West African countries alongside a Moroccan delegation. The […]
Two Moroccan nano-satellites, “UM5-EOSAT” and “UM5SAT-RIBAT”, have been launched lately by SpaceX on Falcon 9 rocket from U.S. Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The launch of these two first satellites, weighing each 4kg, is the culmination of a long scientific cooperation set between Mohammed V University in Rabat, the National Centre for Scientific & […]