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Morocco’s energy and mining ministry gave a permit for London-listed Emmerson PLC to start building its 100% owned mine in Khemisset which will be Africa’s largest potash mine. The license provides the Company with the exclusive right to develop and mine the potash deposit in the Khemisset basin ahead of the anticipated initiation of construction […]
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has recently released its 2020 World Democracy Report, ranking Algeria among the countries that have suffered a worrying and alarming regression. The report published in January by The Economist Intelligence Unit unveiled the ranking of democratic countries in the world in 2020 where Algeria occupies the 115th place out […]
Increased convergence of water policies and programs is necessary to ensure the efficiency of the Moroccan water sector strategy, said the Thematic Working Group on the Evaluation of Public Policies in the House of Advisors. In a report presented on Tuesday at the annual meeting on “the 2009-2020 national water strategy”, the working group called […]
Algeria, which had persecuted, chased and driven back manu-militari thousands of sub-Saharan migrants, is now mistreating Yemeni refugees who fled the war in their country. According to the human rights watchdog Amnesty International, Algerian authorities are holding seven Yemeni asylum seekers in “harsh and unsafe conditions” in a prison in Algiers and are threatening them […]
Opening a French Consulate and cultural center in the Moroccan Saharan city of Dakhla is what French MP M’Jid El Guerrab is pushing for, following the American recognition of Morocco’s full sovereignty over its entire Sahara and US decision to install a consulate in the Sahara city. In his capacity as an elected MP […]
The sinking oil and gas revenues of Algeria no longer make it an “oil country” on par with Libya or Gulf countries, wrote financial news agency Bloomberg. Bloomberg, citing a number of Algerian experts and former officials warning of the dwindling export capacity of the country, stated that in ten years Algeria will be incapable […]
As many as 73 Tunisian lawmakers have signed a petition seeking to unseat the speaker of parliament, Rached Ghannouchi, who managed to secure his position in July after a similar motion failed. The petition according to two of its signatories, Mongi Rahoui and Zouhaier Maghzaoui, is ready but has not been submitted to the parliament […]
Morocco reiterates its calls on Arab countries to work together to protect each other’s territorial integrity and stand as a bulwark against attempts to sow division and discord among them. Foreign minister Nasser Bourita, who was speaking at an emergency meeting of Arab foreign ministers, organized Monday through videoconference, stressed the need for a collective […]
The case of Walid Nekiche, a 24-year-old student from the Wilaya of Tizi Ouzou, who claimed to have been tortured and raped while in police custody, was referred to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights by Riposte Internationale, a NGO for the defense of human rights. Walid Nekiche was arrested on November 26, 2019, […]
At least 28 people have lost their lives in a clandestine factory in Tangiers (northern Morocco) after they were reportedly electrocuted in a short circuit caused by the torrential rains that are lashing the area. The industrial unit was hosted in an underground garage, located under a residential villa, in western Tangier. The incident occurred […]