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A Russian liquefied natural gas tanker sank in the Mediterranean Sea on Tuesday evening after a series of explosions and a large fire, authorities in Libya said on Wednesday. The 277-metre vessel, Arctic Metagas, was carrying about 62,000 metric tonnes of liquefied natural gas when it went down roughly 130 nautical miles north of the […]
Morocco has steadily strengthened its foothold in the European tomato market over the past decade, becoming the EU’s second-largest supplier in 2025 as traditional European producers lost ground, according to data from Euroestacom (ICEX–Eurostat). Moroccan tomato exports to the EU rose nearly 44% between 2013 and 2025, reaching 526,580 tons last year and lifting the […]
Morocco’s national dam filling rate rose sharply reaching 70.3% as of 27 February, up from 61.6% at the start of the month, according to data from the water ministry. Total stored volumes increased from 10.3 billion cubic meters on 1 February to 11.7 billion cubic meters, a gain of 1.4 billion cubic meters in 27 […]
A least 606 people trying to cross the Mediterranean have been reported dead or missing since the beginning of 2026, marking the “deadliest start to a year” in more than a decade, the UN’s migration agency. The migrants dead toll includes more than 117 Algerians who lost their lives in the Sea while attempting to […]
NGO “Promotion of Economic and Social Development” has called on the international community to take urgent actions for the protection of the human rights in the Polisario-controlled Tindouf camps, southern Algeria. In a statement made Monday at 61st session of the Human Rights Council convening in Geneva, NGO representative Aicha Duihi urged UN human rights […]
Morocco’s Saham Group is preparing to increase its shareholding in Teleperformance, the Paris-based global leader in customer experience services, in a move that reinforces the group’s ambition to build a significant presence in the upper tier of the international business services industry. The planned capital increase follows a trajectory set in motion by the November […]
Morocco’s industrial sector began 2026 on a subdued note, with production flatlining and sales volumes retreating across several key branches, according to Bank Al-Maghrib’s monthly business conditions survey for January. The central bank’s data showed overall capacity utilization settling at 77 percent, a reading that reflects the uneven performance across the country’s main industrial segments. […]
Tripoli-based Libyan Prime Minister Abd Alhamid Aldabaiba received a high-level delegation from British energy giant Shell on Monday. The delegation included Richard Howe, Executive Vice President of Conventional Oil and Gas; Fakher Bader, Vice President and Head of the UAE and Iraq branch; and Martin Garvelink, General Manager of New Business Development. The discussions […]
Morocco’s insurance and reinsurance sector closed 2025 on a robust note, with total premiums written surpassing 64.3 billion dirhams — a year-on-year increase of 7.9 percent — according to figures released by the Insurance and Social Welfare Supervisory Authority, known by its French acronym ACAPS. The growth was broad-based, with both major branches of the […]
As the US leads efforts to facilitate negotiations on the Sahara on the basis of the Moroccan autonomy plan, Algeria’s diplomatic posture is shifting in ways that reveal deeper strategic anxieties about its quest to keep the status-quo of unjust colonial borders drawn to the detriment of Morocco. Beyond the status of the Sahara territory, […]