First Independent Mena Newspaper
Morocco and Senegal, two Atlantic African coutries with a time-honored friendship and cooperation are offering Africa a concrete example proving the farsightedness of south-south cooperation based on solidarity and co-development. On Sunday, a new milestone was hit in Moroccan-Senegalese relations with the speech delivered in Senegal’s capital, Dakar, by King Mohammed VI, in which he […]
Nigerian philanthropist Tony Elumelu and his foundation (TEF) have released a new batch of 1,000 African entrepreneurs tasked to create jobs and reduce poverty across the continent, one year after it helped 1,000 others to take off. The 1,000 young entrepreneurs from across the continent, from Senegal to Ethiopia, from South Africa to Morocco were […]
Leading Tanzanian news outlet, dailynews.co.tz, stressed that Morocco’s return to the African union will be conducive to the continent’s economic development and security cooperation. “Morocco, one of the founders of the Organization of African Unity, the predecessor of the current African Union, has much to offer the continental body in terms of economic cooperation, security […]
Morocco and Rwanda added a concrete aspect to their bilateral relations by signing 19 agreements setting the stage for cooperation in fields ranging from economy, finance and science to air transport and renewable energy. The agreements were signed in a ceremony attended by King Mohammed VI who is paying an official visit to Kigali and […]
Rwanda will be the first stop in the new African tour by Morocco’s King Mohammed VI which will also lead him to two other eastern African countries, Ethiopia and Tanzania, Moroccan local media said. The tour will start on Tuesday with a three-day visit to Rwanda. The visit comes in response to an invitation by […]
A new page has been opened in relations between Morocco and Nigeria after a period of tensions marking the mandate of the former Nigerian President Jonathan Good luck, who sidelined with the Polisario’s separatist thesis. A message sent by King Mohammed VI of Morocco to Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on his country’s National Day shows […]
Egypt, Africa’s third most populous country, has expressed support for Morocco’s return to the African Union and said that the Kingdom can play a key role in addressing Africa’s major challenges, local Egyptian media reported. “Egypt backs the return of Morocco to the pan-African body,” the local press quoted an Egyptian diplomatic source within the […]
One day after he was sworn in as President of Gabon for another second seven-year term, Ali Bongo appointed Wednesday his former Foreign Minister Emmanuel Issoze Ngondet as the new Gabonese Prime Minister who is expected to charm members of the opposition into the new cabinet. Ali Bongo came out victorious of the August 27 […]
Morocco’s leading company in wiring systems and electrical equipment, Nexans Morocco, will invest around €12 million to set up a wire producing plant near Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The plant to cover 30,000 square meters will be operational by 2018. The factory will produce electric wires to be used in residential constructions and office buildings, as […]
Morocco’s leading pharmaceutical firm Pharma 5 has received the go-ahead for the construction of a drug producing plant worth $10 million near Abidjan, in Cote d’Ivoire, reports say. The Agreement was initialed Saturday in Rabat by Moroccan ministers of Health and of industry and by Côte d’Ivoire’s health minister. Pharma 5, according to the agreement, […]