First Independent Mena Newspaper
Queues in Algerian post offices of employees waiting to receive their salaries are getting longer as the country experiences a liquidity crisis combined with higher inflation that hit purchasing power of citizens. The cosmetic measures introduced by the government have not anticipated the cash crisis in the country where the banking system is one of […]
Tunisia has launched Monday its first satellite, “Challenge 1”, from Kazakhstan on board Russian Soyuz rocket 2, Webdo Tunis reports. The unmanned rocket took off from Baikonour Cosmodrome, carrying 37 other satellites from 17 other countries including Saudi Arabia, Japan, Germany and South Korea. President Kais Saied attended the launching from Telnet Holding office, the […]
Mauritania and Qatar Sunday contemplated ways to resume diplomatic ties nearly four years after the African country cut off relations in support of Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain and Egypt that had severed ties with the Gulf country. Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani held talks Sunday in Doha with his Mauritanian counterpart Ismail […]
Morocco is expected to receive a new delivery of 2 million doses of the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine by March 30, Le360 reports quoting well-informed sources. Additional doses of the vaccine developed by the Chinese laboratory Sinopharm are due to land in Morocco on Tuesday, March 30, 2021, the Ministry of Health confirmed but without specifying […]
President Alpha Condé of Guinea has sent a message to King Mohammed VI that was handed over by visiting Foreign Minister Ibrahima Khalil Kaba to his Moroccan counterpart Nasser Bourita at a meeting in Rabat Friday. M. Kaba, who chose Morocco for his first official visit abroad since his appointment as Guinean Foreign Minister, underlined […]
The immolation of two Sahraoui men by the Algerian army near the Polisario-run camps of Tindouf where Algeria has forsaken thousands of Sahraouis in inhuman living conditions was denounced again before the 46th session of the UN Human Rights Council. The two men were immolated alive with gasoline by the Algerian army after it caught […]
Morocco’s national railway operator (Office National des Chemins de Fer) has chosen French Alstom company to ensure the maintenance of new-generation PRIMA M4 electric locomotives. An agreement was signed Wednesday by the two partners. It comes after the contract won by Alstom Morocco in 2018 for the supply of 30 locomotives. Since then, fifteen PRIMA […]
Morocco has declared null and void a statement on the Sahara issue drafted by the Kenyan Presidency of the Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union with an instigation from Algeria, while the chairperson of AU commission Moussa Faki called for putting an end to maneuvers. Speaking at a press conference in […]
Morocco’s phosphate group, OCP, has secured a $350 million loan facility from the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) that will support the Group’s expansion plans across Africa. The Pan-African multilateral EXIM Bank announced earlier this week the signing of the 7-year $350 million term loan facility to provide financing to OCP Group. The bank, through its […]
By March 18, Moroccan farmers have amassed whatever they could take after Algerian authorities addressed them an ultimatum to leave a border area near Figuig which they have cultivated for generations. They are victims of arbitrary colonial borders on the one hand and of an Algerian hostile regime to anything Moroccan, on the other. A […]