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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will miss the 8th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) summit planned to take place late this month in Tunis, after the Japanese state-run news Kyodo News announced he contracted COVID-19. Kishida tested positive to the virus on Sunday at the end of his summer break. He, commenced working […]
At least 20 people have been killed in an attack by the jihadist group Al-Shabaab on a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu, Somali police spokesman Abdifatah Duudushe told reporters Saturday. The attack began on Friday night and lasted about 15 hours after members of the Somali jihadist group forced their way into the Hayat […]
Marrakech will host the 13th edition of the Africa Public-Private Partnership, Africa PPP, from October 25 to 27. The Africa PPP Conference, held under the theme of “Accelerating Project Delivery and Partnerships,” features certified training on PPP and a 2-day conference. It will focus on projects in renewable energy, waste to energy, wastewater, bulk water, […]
King Mohammed VI gave directives to facilitate the return of Moroccan talents abroad and urged banks and public authorities to make it easier for them to invest in their homeland. “Public institutions and the national finance and corporate sector are invited to open up to investors from the expatriate community, and to adopt, to this […]
Buoyed by recent regional and international support for its sovereignty over the Sahara territory, Morocco’s King Mohammed VI called on other countries that have yet to make their positions on the artificial clear to take an unambiguous stand. “the Sahara issue is the lens through which Morocco looks at the world. It is the clear, […]
King Mohammed VI on Saturday delivered a speech to the Nation on the occasion of the 69th anniversary of the Revolution of the King and the People. Here follows the full text of the royal speech: “Praise be to God, May peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, His Kith and Kin Dear Citizens, Today, […]
The Bet Yehudah Jewish memory museum in the Medina of Tangier was inaugurated on Friday, after completion of the rehabilitation of the Assayag Synagogue, which required a total budget of MAD 2 million. The “Beit Yehouda” museum, meant to preserve and promote the cultural heritage specific to the Judaism of Megorachim, established in the northern […]
The Arab Monetary Fund said that the expected economic growth in Morocco by the end of 2022 will not exceed 1%, after last year’s 7.9%, and that 2023 growth will reach 4%. The fund stated in its recently-issued Arab Economic Outlook Report that the yield of the main cereal crops will not exceed 32 million […]
Libya’s Public Prosecutor Siddiq Al-Sur announced the discovery of 3,329 forged voter registration cards in Libya’s election database system, as calls for elections come mainstream. Al-Sur made the announcement Wednesday during a press conference regarding the development of investigations into the national number system and the database of those registered to vote in the elections. […]
Egypt’s President Abdelfattah al-Sisi has named Hassan Abdallah as acting governor of the central bank of the country after the former chief resigned Wednesday. Abdallah until the appointment Thursday was Chairman of the Board of Members of the United Media Services Group (UMS). The 62-year old man replaces Tarek Amer who resigned Wednesday but was […]