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Just 10 per cent of factories in Sudan have resumed operations three years after the outbreak of war, according to Atif Abdel Qader of the Sudanese Industrial Chambers Union. He warned on Sunday, April 26, that banking bottlenecks, customs barriers and shortages of raw materials continue to hinder recovery. Abdel Qader said his Sudanese-Malaysian Steel […]
Artificial intelligence and automation technologies could put more than 1.3 million Moroccan jobs at net risk of displacement by 2030, according to a report published recently by the African Center for Strategic Studies and Digitalization. The analysis offers one of the most detailed assessments to date of AI’s labor market impact in Morocco and frames […]
The United States is actively courting Morocco as a priority partner in natural gas infrastructure development, with a high-level Moroccan institutional delegation’s strategic study visit to Houston, Texas — the heart of the American energy industry, reported Aujourd’hui Le Maroc. The mission, organized under the U.S. Trade and Development Agency’s (USTDA) reverse commercial mission program, […]
Bloomberg has shed light on Rabat’s burgeoning ascent, pointing to the opening of the Mohammed VI Tower. The landmark is a centerpiece of the ‘Rabat, City of Light, Morocco’s Capital of Culture’ program, launched under the impetus of King Mohammed VI. Under the revealing title “One giant leap for Morocco,” the leading American media outlet, […]
Morocco and UN Tourism on Wednesday inaugurated the UN Tourism Thematic Office on Innovation for Africa in Rabat, marking the first permanent office established by the organization on the African continent, as officials pledged to scale up investment, digitalization and skills development to unlock the continent’s tourism potential. The office was officially opened by Morocco’s […]
Britain and Morocco underscored the deepening of their strategic partnership during talks this week between UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy and Morocco’s Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, who is on an official visit to London, as both sides pointed to growing cooperation in security, trade and regional stability. Speaking after the meeting, Lammy highlighted the progress […]
King Mohammed VI offered a royal dinner on Thursday evening at the Mechouar Stinia-Sahrij Souani complex in Meknès in honor of the guests and participants of the 18th edition of the Salon International de l’Agriculture au Maroc. The dinner, chaired by Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch, brought together an assembly that reflected the salon’s standing as […]
The Government of Mauritania has approved a draft decree allocating 40 hectares of land in Chami to the National Industrial and Mining Company for the development of a steel production plant and associated facilities. The project, aligned with national industrial policy, is expected to enhance the company’s operational efficiency. It is also aimed to strengthen […]
Moroccan engineering firm Cegelec has secured a contract worth more than two billion dirhams to design and construct a suite of high-voltage electricity transmission and generation assets in Guinea, the company announced this week. The project, carried out through its subsidiary VINCI Energies Guinée, was launched officially on April 18 at Kamissaya in the prefecture […]
Morocco is bucking a global trend on corporate insolvencies, recording a decline in business failures at a time when the rest of the world is heading into a fifth consecutive year of rising defaults. According to a report published on April 22 by trade credit insurer Allianz Trade, Morocco’s corporate insolvencies fell two percent in […]