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Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) says it supplied 1.369 million metric tons of fuel to the local market in July 2026, with the estimated value reaching about $1.006 billion. The corporation said it received 1.378 million tons of fuel from local and international sources, including gasoline, diesel, LPG, kerosene and heavy fuel oil. Diesel accounted […]
Ongoing protests in Tunisia have reopened a question many observers have preferred to avoid, according to an analysis by Algerian writer Boualem Sansal. In Sansal’s analysis, published on le360, the real turning point came in August 2022, when Kais Saïed received the secretary-general of the Polisario Front with full state honors, a deliberate snub to […]
Morocco is marking this Friday the 47th anniversary of the recovery of Oued Ed-Dahab, marking the return of the southern region to Moroccan rule on August 14, 1979. The anniversary follows Mauritania’s withdrawal from the territory under the Algiers Agreement with the Polisario Front, after which tribal leaders from Oued Ed-Dahab travelled to Rabat to […]
Moroccan security forces have mounted an exceptional deployment across the country’s northern border region ahead of August 15, a date targeted by viral online calls for coordinated mass crossing attempts into the Spanish-controlled enclave of Ceuta (Sebta). National Police, Royal Gendarmerie and Auxiliary Forces have sharply increased checkpoints and inspections on roads and maritime access […]
A rare cross-party coalition in Spain has called for Morocco’s exclusion from co-hosting the 2030 FIFA World Cup, treating the global governing body as if it were a family heirloom, even as the joint Spain-Portugal-Morocco bid succeeded largely thanks to African support secured by Rabat. Right-wing Vox, left-wing Sumar and Podemos, and elements of the […]
The Sudanese Army said it had repelled a major attack by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the Jabra Al Sheikh area of North Kordofan State, inflicting heavy casualties and destroying military equipment. The Army said on Thursday that the RSF assault involved more than 250 combat vehicles and that the attack targeted Jabra Al […]
The UN Procurement Division has launched an international tender for the deployment of an AI and virtual reality (VR) platform in Rabat, Morocco, which is hosting the UNOCT Programme Office for Counter-Terrorism and Training in Africa. Thanks to this high-tech anti-terror training platform, the United Nations Office of Counter-terrorism will advance institutional training in Morocco […]
ORNX consortium has selected U.S. engineering KBR firm to conduct the pre-FEED study for its Laayoune green ammonia project in Morocco. The study is being supported through funding from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA). KBR will provide technology licensing and pre-FEED services for the project, which is expected to produce approximately 560,000 metric […]
Morocco’s partial solar eclipse on August 12 produced varying occultation levels across the country, most pronounced in the north and gradually weaker toward the south. Tangier recorded the highest rate at roughly 91.97 percent, followed by Oujda at 88.53 percent and Rabat at 82.53 percent, while the rate reached about 79.30 percent in Agadir, 79.20 […]
Morocco’s women’s national football team fell short of the 2026 Africa Cup of Nations (Morocco 2026) after losing to Cameroon 3–1 on penalty shoouts (0–0 after regulation and extra time) in the semi-final played Wednesday evening at Moulay El Hassan Stadium in Rabat. Cameroon will face Malawi in the final on Sunday at the same […]