First Independent Mena Newspaper
South Africa and Morocco have multiple cooperation prospects as two of the continent’s most advanced economies but the potential of their bilateral ties was left untapped due to Pretoria’s hostile stands towards the Kingdom’s territorial integrity. Pretoria has recognized the Algerian-backed separatist front of the Polisario in 2004. Since then diplomatic ties were downgraded. In […]
King Mohammed VI sent a message of congratulations to President of Senegal Macky Sall upon his re-election to the highest office of his country. In this message, the Sovereign expressed, in his name and on behalf of the Moroccan people, to the President of Senegal his warm congratulations and sincere wishes for full success in […]
President Macky Sall Thursday won a new term in office after the electoral commission credited him with 58.3 per cent of votes during the Sunday polls, clearly ahead of his rivals who said they rejected the result, but would not lodge a recourse with the Constitutional Council to contest it. Official but provisional results of […]
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is looking to hire two consultants – a renewable specialist and a power system planning expert – to help steer the set-up of a solar corridor in the region. Between April and June this year, the experts will produce a strategic plan on how to deliver the […]
With financial backing from Green Climate Fund, the West-African Development Bank (BOAD) has approved a €100 million loan to finance renewable energy development in countries from the West African Economic and Monetary Union. The goal of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) is to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries and help adapt […]
King Mohammed VI congratulated President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, upon his re-election to the highest office of his country. After he addressed him a felicitations message on Wednesday, the Monarch reiterated his congratulations to President Buhari in a telephone talk Thursday. The call was an opportunity for both leaders to reiterate their shared desire to […]
Cooperation prospects and coordination between Morocco and Mali in migration management were at the center of talks, held Tuesday in Bamako, between Malian PM Soumeylou Boubeye Maïga and Moroccan Minister Delegate for expatriates & migration affairs Abdelkrim Benatiq. The two officials voiced willingness to enhance further bilateral relations in various fields in accordance with the […]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Wednesday pledged to increase trade volume with Chad by 40 percent from the current $60 million to $100 million, as part of plans to bolster ties between the two countries. President Erdogan made the statement on receiving visiting Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno in Ankara, state-run news agency Anadolu reports. […]
Ethiopian Construction Works Corporation (ECWC) has completed the Gidabo dam in central Ethiopia. The dam has the capacity to reserve 62.5 million cubic meter and is expected to develop 13,425 hectares of land cultivated by some 10,000 farmers. The project is also expected to indirectly create nearly 192,000 jobs. According to the Food and Agriculture […]
Sinohydro, the world’s biggest hydroelectric power plant construction company, and the Organization for the Promotion of the Senegal River (OMVS) have been awarded the construction of a hydropower plant in Koukoutamba, Republic of Guinea. The 294 MW Koukoutamba dam will be built in the middle of a newly declared protected area called the Moyen-Bafing National […]