First Independent Mena Newspaper
The security and stability of the MENA region and the Sahel require the adoption of a “holistic” and “multidimensional” approach based on cooperation and integration for sustainable development. The observation was made by researchers and experts in geopolitics who were taking part in a plenary session on the “Middle East / North and West Africa” […]
French oil giant Total Monday called on leaders of the world to introduce policies to address CO2 emission as major polluters are state-run oil and gas companies. The World Policy Conference (WPC) held Monday a plenary session under the theme “Climate and the environment” moderated by former French Prime Minister and foreign minister Laurent Fabius. […]
Guinean security forces have arrested several civil society leaders ahead of protests against a planned constitutional review that many fear would allow President Alpha Condé to run for a third or even fourth term in office. The Guinean constitution, adopted just nine years ago, limits the president to two five-year terms. Condé’s second term ends […]
Moroccan authorities foiled on Monday another major drug smuggling operation at the Southern Guerguarate crossing point on the borders with Mauritania. A joint border control operation carried out by Moroccan Police and Customs Services has enabled to seize nearly six tons of cannabis in a transport truck heading to an African country. The illegal substance […]
Economic growth in the region of North Africa and the Middle East is expected to drop to 0.6 pc in 2019 against a 1.2 pc growth posted last year, says the World Bank in its latest report. The growth forecast for 2019 has been revised downwards due to intensified global economic headwinds and rising geopolitical […]
The African Development Bank has asked the Coalition for Green Capital (CGC) to make a study on the creation of national climate change funds and green banks in Africa. CGC will work with six African countries to conduct feasibility studies for the project, which was launched at the Green Bank Design Summit held in Paris […]
Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed welcomed the results of the Sunday runoff as a plebiscite against corruption, in reference to the defeat of media mogul Nabil Karoui formerly charged for money laundering and tax evasion. Around 72 per cent of the 7 million Tunisian voters Sunday picked independent candidate Kaïs Saïed as the country’s next […]
King Mohammed VI congratulated newly elected Tunisian President Kaïs Saïed wishing him success in his new mission. Saied, a former law professor, won the presidential elections on Sunday with a landslide victory. In his congratulations message, King Mohammed VI lauded the commitment of the Tunisian people to strengthen the rule of law and institutions saying […]
Morocco’s National Office of Electricity and Drinking Water (ONEE) has signed an agreement with Niger’s Agency for the Promotion of Electrification in Rural Areas (ANPER) to improve access to electricity in rural communities of the West African nation. Under the agreement signed last week in Rabat by ONEE and ANPER heads, Abderrahim El Hafidi and […]
Algeria risks becoming a net gas importing country as its domestic production continues to be devoured by a rising consumption that could turn the country into a net gas importer in ten years, head of oil and gas at the ministry of energy Mustapha Hanafi said. Domestic gas consumption has grown faster than gas production […]