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The consortium that won the bid to build Noor Midelt 1, a 800 MW solar plant, has signed with Spain’s TSK to start works in late 2019. The consortium composed of French EDF Renewables, UAE’s Masdar and Morocco’s Green of Africa said that the plant will be operational by 2022. Noor Midelt 1, worth $780 […]
King Mohammed VI who attaches great importance to the social and professional integration of former inmates launched, on Monday in Casablanca, the 2019 national Program to support micro-projects and self-employment of former detainees. On this occasion, the Sovereign handed equipment and support checks to 26 former inmates carrying income-generating projects. Six women and two former […]
After serving for just 25 months as Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the Sahara, Horst Köhler quitted his UN job for “health reasons”. His resignation raises the possibility of three scenarios. After replacing US Christopher Ross in April 2017 as Personal Envoy of the UN SG for the Sahara, Horst Köhler, a former […]
Morocco is taking part as guest of honor at China’s 5th International Big Data Industry Expo, which kicked off on Sunday, May 26, under the theme “Data creates value, innovation drives the future.” The international event to run through Wednesday, May 29, in the capital of Guizhou province, Guiyang, Southwestern China, is the first national-level […]
Security authorities in the Dominican Republic have deported a French national, boss of a network accused of laundering money coming from drug trafficking activities between Spain and Morocco. The French, Michel Pierre Vincent Loubet, had been arrested last week alongside four other Spanish nationals in the northern part of the Central American country. The operation […]
Moroccan police nabbed two Spaniards and two Moroccans in the city of Casablanca for illegal possession of 78 gold bars weighing 11.7 kg. The men were nabbed in a car with a foreign license plate in the city of Casablanca on friday, on tip-off from the national security directorate (DGSN). Police discovered in the […]
North Africa boasts the world’s richest phosphate reserves, most of which is located in Morocco but Algerian and Tunisian soil have significant untapped potential. Algeria has long dreamt to develop phosphates-related industries through the setting up of fertilizers plants in Annaba and developing the eastern phosphate cluster in the Tebassa region. However due to multiple […]
Morocco is set to create 12 special economic zones in its 12 regions offering tax incentives and other advantages to attract foreign industrial investors. The special zones are also meant to boost exports and curb imports in order to ease the country’s trade deficit. The decision was made in 2016 in a business charter that […]
Two years after taking office, UN Special Envoy to the Sahara Horst Köhler submitted his resignation citing health reasons, a decision that analysts say could bring negotiations over the Sahara issue to square one. After years of stalemate, the former German president managed to bring the four parties Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania and the Polisario back […]
Moroccan rapper Issam Harris, best known as Issam, has signed a contact with Universal France in what appears as the biggest deal ever signed by an Arab artist. The size of the contact has not been disclosed, but a source close to the artist said it is the biggest ever signed by an Arab musician, […]