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Reminex SA, a subsidiary of Morocco’s largest mining company Managem, signed a partnership agreement with global engineering company China Electronics Corporation on a cobalt sulfate factory. “This strategic and know-how sharing partnership represents a major opportunity to build an industrial cluster and contribute to the Moroccan-Chinese alliance,” Reminex said in a statement. The new plant […]
United Arab Emirates (UAE) are planning to build a scientific University in Mauritania’s capital of Nouakchott to meet the demands of the local job market, the minister of Education of the Gulf country Ahmed Belhoul Al-Falasi has announced. The future University will be located in the East of the capital and will stretch over 23,377m2. […]
Beijing-based China Harbour Company, a subsidiary of China Communications Construction Company, has been tasked to conduct studies of potential investments in infrastructure projects in Libya, under a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Misurata Free Zone (MFZ). The deal was signed on the sidelines of the North African International Conference and Exhibition for Ports and Free […]
Four Chinese gold miners have been kidnapped in Lamy-Pont, a village in Central African Republic (CAR), near the town of Abba, in Nana-Mambéré sub prefecture where three Chinese were also abducted in March 2023. The incident occurred Saturday Novembr 18, during a clash between armed forced and a group of unidentified armed men who attacked […]
Morocco’s National Commission for the Implementation of Sanctions Imposed by UN Security Council Resolutions on Terrorism, Arms Proliferation and their Financing (CNASNU), and the Executive Office for Control and Non-Proliferation of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Dubai on Thursday, to strengthen and develop means of cooperation and partnership […]
China is reportedly on track to control the ailing African Tazara railway connecting Tanzania and Zambia, originally funded by Mao Zedong’s government in the 1970s, despite geopolitical needling over control of mineral trade routes. Amid growing geopolitical tensions over the control of trading routes for critical minerals in Africa, China has chosen the China Civil […]
King Mohammed VI has reiterated Morocco’s unwavering support for the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, notably the establishment of an independent State with Al Quds-East as its capital. In a message of congratulations to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on his country’s national day, King Mohammed VI also stressed the need for a solution on […]
Minister of Foreign Affairs Nasser Bourita expressed Morocco’s condemnation of Israeli actions in the Gaza Strip, the latest of which is the bombing of the headquarters of the Qatari Committee for Gaza Reconstruction, in violation of international law rules and international humanitarian law. “There is, of course, great concern about what is happening, particularly the […]
During the Arab-OIC summit in Riyadh, Arab and Muslim leaders denounced the ongoing Israeli targeting of civilians in Gaza and called for a ceasefire and a lasting two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Out of all leaders who spoke at the summit, the Syrian and Iranian regimes showed hypocrisy and drew disdain as they have […]
The African Union’s quest to assert itself in global arenas as a partner to regional institutions and global powers is undermined by the presence of a separatist proxy that lacks all the attributes of a sovereign state. In less than a week, two major partnership events were put off sine die to avoid the probability […]