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The American STG (Secure Technologies Group) will install around 2019-2020 a phone assembly plant in Morocco, announced the group’s founder Adnan Ouassini. Adnan Ouassini, a Moroccan entrepreneur born in Tangier, established STG in 2008 in Silicon Valley in the United States through Technology Capital Invest (TCI), an investment holding company in new technologies, also founded […]
Leading Saudi electricity producer and desalter, Acwa power, officially switched on a 120 MW wind farm in northern Morocco as it continues to diversify its portfolio in the north African country. The 1.8 billion dirham investment is the first wind farm to be launched by Acwa power, a group that operates in 10 countries notably […]
Finally Morocco is filling the gap in its helicopter attack capacity as the country is reportedly negotiating the purchase of the mighty Apache AH 64. The deal might have been sealed during a visit by Morocco’s chief of Staff Abdelfattah Lourak last April in Washington, le360 reported. The news come after reports raised a possible […]
UN Secretary General’s Personal Envoy for the Sahara, Horst Kohler, who paid a visit to the Sahara met with members of the regional commissions for human rights (CRDH) in Laayoune who briefed him on their work and the human rights conditions in the region. President of the CRDH in Laayoune said the meeting with Kohler […]
Morocco has formally rejected the creation of migrants’ reception centers in the Kingdom as it deems the measure unhelpful to address illegal migration. “Morocco rejects and has always rejected these kinds of methods for managing the issue of migration flows,” Nasser Bourita said in Rabat after meeting his Spanish counterpart Josep Borrell. Bourita expressed satisfaction […]
The Morocco-proposed autonomy plan is an option to solve the Sahara issue, said, Friday, the US Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan who is on a visit to the Kingdom as part of a regional tour. “Our policy in this regard has not changed. We consider that the Moroccan project for autonomy in the Sahara […]
The Central People’s Bank of Morocco (BCP) has secured funds from Proparco and the African Development Bank, destined to upgrade its business financing in West Africa, mainly in Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Mali and Senegal, where the bank is operating through its subsidiary Banque Atlantique. BCP has thus signed Thursday in Casablanca a funding agreement with […]
Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell hailed on Thursday in Rabat the sound friendship ties and the strategic partnership existing between Morocco and Spain, which are sharing, he said, common history and interests. The two countries “are not only friends and neighbors, but they are also strategic partners determined to strengthen further their bilateral […]
UN Envoy for the Sahara Horst Köhler, who is currently touring the region, met Wednesday in Rabat with Head of Moroccan Government Saad Eddine El Othmani and with Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita. Köhler, a former German president and ex-director of the International Monetary Fund, arrived in Morocco within the frame of his second regional tour […]
Danone CEO was pushed to pay a visit to Morocco where a local subsidiary Centrale Danone is hit by a consumer boycott slashing sales and triggering layoffs. The CEO Emmanuel Faber met with families and youth who expressed their views on prices and quality. He then held a press conference in which he promised to […]