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After the mandatory military service has been reinstated in Morocco, the first group of young conscripts will start their one-year training September 1. Only 15,000 draftees out of the 25,000 called up will be enlisted after undergoing a series of physical and medical tests starting August 19, according to local media. To ensure success to […]
More than 7,000 psychotropic tablets seized in Fez, seven people arrested. A Royal Navy unit patrolling in the Atlantic foiled on Thursday a drug trafficking operation off Assilah (northern Morocco) and seized 130 bundles of chira, weighing over 4 tons. According to a military source, the seizure was operated after the […]
Japanese electrical and industrial automation company Yokogawa opened its African subsidiary in Casablanca in a bid to expand in Morocco and the continent. In Morocco, the company targets industrial clients in the fields of energy and chemical, pharmaceutical, agri-food industries as well as waste and sewage water treatment. The group generates a turnover […]
Nigeria partnered with Morocco to achieve its food security through an increase in use of fertilisers, Nigerian President Muhammadou Buhari said. “We are taking our focus on agriculture to the next level,” said Buhari in a tweet. Nigeria has Africa’s largest population standing at more than 160 million people with agriculture representing about 40% […]
Morocco and Spain promised to protect the rights of Moroccan female seasonal workers who travel every year to the region of Huelva to work in strawberry fields. In 2018-2019 season they were 14,583 who worked in Huelva in an operation lauded in a joint Moroccan-Spanish statement as “successful.” This form of regular migration was “beneficial […]
Clean Technology Fund approves $20 million investment for AfDB-sponsored Facility for Energy Inclusion The Clean Technology Fund (CTF) one of two multi-donor trust funds within the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) last week approved $20 million for the Facility for Energy Inclusion (FEI), a facility sponsored by the African Development Bank to provide sustainable financing for […]
There is new hope for the oil industry in Congo as the recent onshore discovery made in the Delta de la Cuvette indicates that the deposits could produce up to 359 million barrels of oil, or 983,000 bopd, from this central province. Congo’s current production stands at over 330,000 bopd according to OPEC’s latest figures. […]
Morocco is tightening control over its southern borders with state-of-the-art technology to keep the Sahara and the whole country at bay from threats posed by terrorist groups and organized crime networks, the Moroccan press reported. The most-southern tip on the shared borders with Mauritania had long been a haven for dealers until Morocco cracked […]
Morocco was listed among the 27 countries facing a high level of water stress according to a report issued recently by the World Resources Institute. Morocco was ranked 22nd in a list where Qatar, Lebanon and Israel were described as most countries facing an extremely high level of water shortage threat. Since its independence, Morocco […]
The Moroccan football association, FRMF, has picked Serbian Vahid Halilhodžić as the new head manager of the national football team with the task to qualify the Atlas Lions for FIFA 2022 World Cup to be played in Qatar. The FRMF finally picked the former manager of Paris Saint Germain, PSG, and Algeria’s former coach […]