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China’s car parts maker Citic Dicastal opened its third factory in Morocco in Kenitra worth 180 million euros to manufacture aluminum chassis parts. The new factory spans over 20,000 square meters and employs 1000 people. It has an annual production capacity of 5 million units, of which 90% will be exported to Europe. This plant […]
Reminex SA, a subsidiary of Morocco’s largest mining company Managem, signed a partnership agreement with global engineering company China Electronics Corporation on a cobalt sulfate factory. “This strategic and know-how sharing partnership represents a major opportunity to build an industrial cluster and contribute to the Moroccan-Chinese alliance,” Reminex said in a statement. The new plant […]
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has approved a €12 million loan for Guelmim-Oued Noun Saharan region to enable it improve drinking water supply for households in rural areas. The funding will also help the Guelmim province upgrade four existing Waste Water Treatment Plants (WWTPs). the recycling water is used in community gardening, […]
Mauritania and Spain launched Tuesday November 21 in Canary Islands a joint economic commission to establish “relations of trust” between Canary Islands and Mauritanian companies, to develop joint projects in several economic fields, reports say. The Commission is made of around 25 companies from the Canary Islands and several Mauritanian companies active in trade, fishing, […]
King Mohammed VI has called on the members of the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco to promote knowledge and harness science to achieve a sound progress that is likely to safeguard the nation’s identity, protect it from risks and deviations, and endow societies with inspiring diversity and intellectual pluralism. The Sovereign’s call came in […]
Cameroonian authorities launched Tuesday November 21 Cameroon-Chad Interconnection Project, a bilateral high-voltage (HV) interconnection project between the two countries that involves 1.556 km of new transmission lines financed by the World Bank and the African Development Bank (AfDB) to the tune of $750 million. Gaston Eloundou Essomba, Cameroon’s minister of Energy launched the interconnection project […]
Morocco continues to shine on the global football scene with its U17 team making it to the quarters of the ongoing World Cup 2023 after a win over Iran, while the Atlas Lions beat Tanzania in their 2026 World Cup qualifier played in Dar es Salaam. In Indonesia, the Moroccan Atlas Cubs overcame on Tuesday […]
United Arab Emirates (UAE) are planning to build a scientific University in Mauritania’s capital of Nouakchott to meet the demands of the local job market, the minister of Education of the Gulf country Ahmed Belhoul Al-Falasi has announced. The future University will be located in the East of the capital and will stretch over 23,377m2. […]
Africa is in the grip of a dollar drought and the current continent-wide scarcity of the US dollar is further pushing many already beleaguered African countries into deeper economic crises, according to a new Bloomberg report. Several Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, including Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana and Tanzania, have for several months experienced shortages of the […]
The call by King Mohammed VI to promote regional integration among African countries bordering the Atlantic continues to reverberate across the continent. The most recent backing of this Royal initiative was expressed by participants from some 26 African countries at an international conference on marine life protection and cooperation between Atlantic nations. The conference, dubbed […]