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France’s leading telecommunications company Orange is eying an investment in the sector in Ethiopia. Orange is one of the leading contenders seeking to benefit from the end of state-controlled Ethio Telecom’s monopoly, pushed by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. According to Reuters, the Ethiopian government aims to award telecom licenses by the end of 2019, with […]
The government of Zimbabwe has banned the use of international currencies. The central bank said that effective immediately, currencies including the US dollar and the South African rand, in use since 2009, will no longer be accepted as legal tender. A local quasi currency known as bond notes, which was introduced in 2016 but can’t […]
The Moroccan House of Representatives adopted unanimously on Monday the bill approving the Morocco-EU fisheries deal. Morocco and the EU signed the agreement to renew the fisheries deal on January 14. The fisheries sector has always been an important component of the Morocco-EU partnership and the new agreement preserves, consolidates and develops this partnership that […]
Morocco called once again for a genuine reform of the African Union’s most powerful body, the Peace and Security Council (PSC), to be better placed to resolve the issues compromising African stability and hence its development. The call was made this time by Minister delegate in charge of African cooperation Mohcine Jazouli who was speaking […]
The Denmark-based global engineering company FLSmidth will participate in the construction of a new cement plant in the region of El Jadida under a subcontracting deal with the Moroccan company TEKCIM. Tekcim had won the tender to build the MAD 2.6 billion ($274 million) cement plant in Ouled Ghanem in the province of El Jadida, […]
The Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union opened on Monday in the Moroccan coastal city of Skhirat (Rabat ouskirts) a three-day meeting to look into ways of improving its working methods for a better prevention, management and resolution of conflicts in the African continent. In his opening address, acting chairman of […]
Thousands of supporters of the Palestinian cause took to the street of Rabat Sunday to criticize the Tuesday-Wednesday US-endorsed economic workshop in Manama, Bahrain, which will discuss the economic component of the US Middle East plan dubbed “deal of the century”. The protest march, called for by several Moroccan political parties and NGOs, denounced the […]
Morocco is taking part in the Summit of the two shores of the Mediterranean region, convening in the French city of Marseille June 23-24. The Summit, consisting of both a meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Western Mediterranean and a regional dialogue with prominent civil society representatives, seeks to foster a […]
Ethiopia’s army chief of staff and the regional president of the northern state of Amhara were killed in two related attacks over the weekend. Amhara President Ambachew Mekonnen was killed in his offices by ‘mercenaries’ in Bahir Dar, while the army chief, Seare Mekonnen, was shot dead in Addis Ababa, the office of Ethiopian Prime […]
Son of the late ex-Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has expressed his gratitude to several Muslim World leaders including Turkey and Qatar for their support upon the death of his father. “We would like to thank everyone, particularly Mr. Erdogan, Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani and his father [Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani], the […]