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OCP Africa and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, have announced this Monday a partnership to strengthen value chains of rice in Côte d’Ivoire and millet in Senegal, and to help improve the living conditions of thousands of smallholder farmers. These crops, essential to ensure food security in these […]
Morocco reiterated its deep concern regarding the suffering inflicted on thousands of Sahraouis held against their will by the Polisario militias in southwestern Algeria amid the pandemic outbreak. Speaking to the UN general assembly, head of the Government Saad Eddine El Othmani deplored that the Moroccan Sahraouis in Tindouf were left to the mercy of […]
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights has laid into Egypt after Egyptian naval force shot at three Palestinians fishermen killing two of them. The fishermen, who were brothers from Gaza, were killed Friday along the Palestinian-Egyptian maritime border after Egyptians forces opened fire on them. “It is clear that there are specific instructions and orders […]
Morocco’s Interior Ministry said that mayorships and elected officials are banned from using charity for electoral purposes, Assabah daily reported. The move aims at preventing elected officials from using the suffering of poor people through charity in order to wage electoral campaigns, in a move that would lift the rug from under the feat of […]
The United States announced last week nearly $152 million in humanitarian assistance to respond to the humanitarian crisis in the Sahel region countries of Niger, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, and Mali. US Special Envoy to the Sahel Peter Pham announced the aid following a trip to West Africa, where he visited Mauritania and Niger. “More than […]
The Malian transitional President Bah N’Daw signed a decree Sunday, appointing former foreign minister Moctar Ouane head of government. The appointment was announced two days after the swearing-in ceremony of Transitional President Bah N’Daw, and following a meeting Saturday evening with junta officials and the transitional president. Since 2016, the newly appointed Prime Minister was […]
Morocco has reaffirmed its commitment to a final solution to the regional dispute over the Moroccan Sahara, within the framework of its territorial integrity and national sovereignty. This came in the address the Head of Government Saad Eddine El Othmani made to the UN General Assembly on Saturday. Reiterating Morocco’s commitment to finding a political […]
UN top official in Libya, Stephanie Williams, reaffirmed her support for Morocco’s mediation efforts which enabled a breakthrough earlier this month after Libya’s rival administrations reached key agreement on sovereign institution as a prelude for a wider political agreement that would put an end to the in-fighting in the oil-rich country. The UN official who […]
The UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Saturday warned the Polisario separatists against obstructing regular civil and commercial traffic in the Guerguerat buffer zone, in reaction to the front’s recent moves in the town on the Morocco-Mauritania border. In a statement on behalf of UN Chief, his deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq said that the UN has […]
About 100 million years ago, Morocco’s Tafilalet region was home to a river monster, a 15-meter long water dinosaur, according to a study by a scientific team from Britain’s Portsmouth University. “A discovery of more than a thousand dinosaur teeth, by a team of researchers from the University of Portsmouth, proves beyond reasonable doubt that […]