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Japan’s car company Toyota will soon set up a car assembly plant in Côte d’Ivoire. This is the purpose of an agreement the company signed Thursday August 29 in Yokohama, Japan, with the Ivorian government. The document was signed by the Ivorian transport minister, Amadou Koné, and the CEO of Toyota, Ichiro Kashitani, on the […]
The mainstay in the busted trafficking of nearly 800 kg of drug in June at Dakar port has surrendered himself to authorities as Mexican and Brazilian cartels threaten to kill him over the foiled operation, reports say. At large since late June when security forces seized 798 kg of cocaine hidden in 15 brand new […]
US hydrocarbon exploration firm, Vaalco Energy, will start an offshore drilling campaign next month as Gabon works to increase its crude oil production by 50 percent by 2020/2021. The start of the drilling campaign follows a successful full-field maintenance shut down at four of Vaalco’s platforms in the Central African nation The five-well drilling campaign […]
The Polisario has once again evidenced its lack of clear-sightedness and its misconception of geopolitics when it joined a group of socialist countries that reject President Donald Trump’s policy towards President Nicolas Maduro’s Venezuela. Actually, the separatist front’s representative in Cuba signed at the embassy of Venezuela in Havana an anti-trump petition, part of the […]
Two of Morocco’s leading banking groups, Banque Centrale Populaire and Attijariwafa Bank, have signed partnership agreements with Japanese banking institutions, on the sidelines of the 7th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD-VII), currently held in Yokohama. Thus, Banque Centrale Populaire, BCP, and Japan’s second largest banking group Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) signed, on […]
Moroccan foreign policy under the leadership of King Mohammed VI reflects the achievements made at home in the fields of infrastructure, energy as well as strengthening the rule of law and democracy bringing Morocco ever close to its traditional allies and to its new friends and partners. King Mohammed VI put Morocco on the path […]
Heavy summer rain triggered flash floods that killed at least seven people in a rural area near the locality of Ighern in the province of Taroudant, local authorities said. Videos largely shared on social media showed people swept away by the flood while standing on a roof of a rural stadium built next to the […]
Japan has lately repeated once and again that it does not recognize the SADR, self-proclaimed by the Algeria-backed Polisario. Eager to make its position on the Sahara conflict heard by the international community, especially African leaders, Japan on Wednesday reiterated its official position: non-recognition of the self-proclaimed Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR). Actually, Japan’s Foreign […]
Morocco took the presidency of the Arab Renewable Energy Commission on the sidelines of the Sixth international forum and fifth Arab forum of renewable energy, hosted in Amman on August 27-28. The North African country topped African and MENA region countries in the Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index established by British consultancy Ernest and Young. […]
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday said his country will offer enhanced trade insurance to boost private sector investment in Africa. Abe made the statement at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development opened in Yokohama on Wednesday. The meeting attended by a few dozen African leaders and representatives of […]