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Maroc Telecom announced Monday it will invest 10 billion dirhams over the coming three years to promote telecommunications in Morocco. “As part of its proactive investment policy, Maroc Telecom has signed the sixth investment agreement with the Government for the development of telecommunications in the Kingdom,” said the leading telecom operator in a statement. “Under […]
Sudan’s new prime minister said the East African nation needs about $8 billion in foreign aid over the next two years to cover its import bill and help rebuild the country’s economy, ravaged by months of political turmoil. Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok’s appointment as prime minister signals the new Sudanese leadership’s intention to address a […]
King Mohammed VI has put Morocco on track of social and economic development with the first twenty years of projects resulting in improved infrastructure but much remains to be done as the monarch himself stressed in his two recent speeches putting the country in a new trajectory of reforms to reduce disparities and improve public […]
Japan was the latest in a series of global powers that strongly reiterated their rejection of the Algerian-backed separatism in southern Morocco. The Japanese stance on the Sahara issue was expressed by Middle East and North Africa director at the foreign ministry Katsuhiko Takahashi who reaffirmed his country’s non-recognition of the Polisario self-declared SADR republic, […]
Bayt Mal Al Quds agency, an offshoot of the OIC, issued a report covering two-decades of King Mohammed VI leadership at the head of the agency in championing the rights of Al Quds inhabitants and the sacred character of the holy city revered by Muslims, Christians and Jews. The 131-page report highlights the achievements […]
Morocco Sunday retained its 3rd place in the overall ranking of the 12th African Games, generally regarded as Africa’s version of the Olympic Games, with 41 medals including 13 gold 11 silver and 17 bronze. At the competitions of the 7th day played Sunday, Morocco earned an extra bronze medal in weightlifting in the […]
Tunisia’s electoral body, ISIE, has announced on the basis of article 27 of the constitution that Nabil Karoui will still run for the presidential elections despite his arrest Friday for money laundering. Forces from the interior ministry nabbed the candidate of Qalb Tounes (Heart of Tunisia) at Beja, in Beja governorate. The media mogul has […]
Algeria’s interim President Abdelkader Bensalah has replaced head of internal security, Abdelkader Kara Bouhadba, after five people died Thursday in a stampede, at a rap concert, in capital Algiers. The head of the DGSN Bouhadba held the position for few months only as he was appointed in February. His removal is part of few unprecedented […]
King Mohammed VI laid out in his August 20 speech a roadmap for a new social and political contract placing the citizen at heart of development programs, said Chairman of Crans Montana Forum Jean-Paul Carteron. “Aware of the feeling of injustice that may be felt by some amid the rapid economic and industrial progress that […]
Morocco topped the list of electricity suppliers to Spain in 2018 with 2088GW per hour, Spanish institute Red Eléctrica de España said. The institute said that 76% of electricity trade flows on the border were taken by Morocco while the remaining 24% by Spain. Morocco and Spain will further boost their electric connectivity with a […]