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The UN-backed Libyan Prime Minister Faiez Serraj is losing support in the country as a result of mounting social and economic challenges which need urgent solutions, said Head of UN Support Mission in Libya, Martin Kobler. The German diplomat told Swiss media Neue Zürcher Zeitung that despite the unity government’s key and ongoing victories over […]
After a sharp drop in tourist arrivals last June which coincided with the holy month of Ramadan, the tourism sector in Agadir is showing signs of recovery thanks to significant rise in national, Russian and Algerian tourists. Much to the delight of tourism professionals, most hotels in Morocco’s second tourist destination were fully booked in […]
Italy’s defense ministry and defense industry giant Leonardo-Finmeccanica signed this week an agreement to set up a military helicopters manufacturing plant near Setif in eastern Algeria. The factory will produce multipurpose light and medium Augusta West Helicopters that are used for transport, evacuation operations and surveillance, the Italian defense ministry said in a statement. The […]
US President’s special envoy for the global coalition to counter the Islamic State (IS) group will visit Morocco early next week to update Moroccan authorities on the coalition’s actions to weed out the terrorist group, the US State Department said on Wednesday. “Morocco is a strong partner in the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL and […]
Pro-unity government forces Thursday announced eminent liberation of Sirte a day after they took control of the Islamic State group’s headquarters in the coastal city. “We are preparing to announce the total liberation of Sirte in the next two days at the most,” sources from the Misrata militia, fighting under the unity government, said. “Sirte […]
Morocco’s state-owned phosphates company (known by its French acronym OCP) will invest 2 billion dirhams in a water desalination plant in the Atlantic city of El Jadida. Part of the OCP’s environmental strategy, the new plant will have a capacity of 75 million cubic meters per year as of 2020, its projected date of completion, […]
The Egyptian government is putting the final touches on new foreign direct investment (FDI) council to be launched very soon in a bid to drain more foreign capital needed by the North African country to support its battered economy. President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi has given green light for setting up a Higher Council for Investment. […]
Following the devastating fire that sparked in the Atlantic Portuguese Island of Madeira, Morocco, at the instruction of King Mohammed VI, sent two Canadair aircrafts to help the neighboring country extinguish the fire. The news was confirmed by the Royal Household pointing out to the gravity of the situation in the Portuguese islands where fires […]
Libyan Forces battling the Islamic State in Libya claimed today to have captured the headquarters of the terrorist group in the coastal city of Sirte following a military campaign that started in June. A spokesman in the Forces media office, Rida Issa, said the Libyan forces took control of a compound used by the terrorist […]
Tunisian authorities are mulling plans to attract more Chinese companies and to that end, the state will create a free trade zone at Tabarka, a coastal city in northwestern Tunisia, Trade Minister Mohsen Hassen told the media on Wednesday. The free zone to pop up soon will be solely created for the Chinese companies targeting […]