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Morocco is about to draw a roadmap for the exploration of marine current energy, announced the Minister of Energy. A specialized commission, including representatives of the energy and mining departments, the Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy (MASEN), the National Office of Electricity and Drinking Water (ONEE), and the Solar Energy and New Energies Research Institute […]
Morocco has shown a great deal of restraint and wisdom in the face of the desperate provocations of the Polisario and its mentor Algeria who instigated their supporters to block the road linking the Kingdom to its African roots. King Mohammed VI strongly rejected, in a speech on the occasion of the Green March anniversary, […]
Moroccan investment fund, Outlierz Ventures, has made eight investments in Africa since its launch in 2017. The operations mainly benefited four dynamic African markets in terms of fundraising, including Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt and Morocco. The company, dedicated to technology, invests between MAD 500,000 and 5 million in companies with high growth potential. It targets […]
Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita has called for the development of a multidimensional and unified approach to address the common challenges facing Arab countries and the European Union (EU). Bourita made his remarks in a speech he delivered before the fifth Arab League-EU Summit that took place on a digital form, November 9-10, under […]
A prominent Benghazi Libyan lawyer who lately turned critical of east-based retired Gen. Khalifa Haftar was shot dead Tuesday by gunmen aligned with the rogue warlord. Hanane Barasi was mowed down outside her house after three gunmen came out of three cars and showered her with bullets, on a busy street of the eastern Libyan […]
The European Investment Bank (EIB) will loan Egypt by year’s end €1.1 billion in form of financing package for the implementation of three transport projects in the Arab country. The package will come in two installments. The first tranche will take place in December and valued at €600 million, the Egyptian cabinet said in a […]
Former Malian President Amadou Toumani Touré (“ATT”), who ruled the country from 2002 to 2012 before being overthrown in a military coup, died during the night of Monday 9 to Tuesday 10 November in Turkey, at the age of 72, a relative and a doctor reported. “Amadou Toumani Touré died during the night of […]
A new scandal has shaken the increasingly divided South Africa’s ruling party, the ANC with the issuing of an arrest warrant against the party’s Secretary General Ace Magashule. The figure of the ruling party is accused of corruption in a public contract case from his time as governor of Free State province. Rumors of […]
Many years before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, Morocco has adopted an inclusive development model based on renewable energies and a sustainable vision, said Chief of the Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy (MASEN), Mustapha Bakkoury. In an Op-Ed published by “the Parliament Magazine”, Bakkoury said despite Morocco’s swift and exceptional management of the pandemic, […]
During this school year, 140,250 students moved from private to public schools compared to 52,000 last year, Moroccan Education Minister said. This exodus is partly triggered by the coronavirus outbreak and its impact on households’ revenue as well as the low quality of private school teaching. Minister Said Amzazi said that 68 private schools had […]