First Independent Mena Newspaper
President Emmanuel Macron of France kicked off Monday a four-day tour in Eastern Africa with the first leg in Djibouti followed by Ethiopia and Kenya where the French leader will co-chair UN-sponsored One Planet Summit. The trip to Djibouti, a French former colony, is the first in a decade by a French President after Sarkozy […]
The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Moroccan Motorway Company, la Société Nationale des Autoroutes du Maroc (ADM), signed Monday in Rabat an €80 million financing agreement meant to upgrade highway infrastructure in an around Casablanca. The amount will finance the tripling of the Casablanca-Berrechid highway lanes on 25.8 km and the construction of a […]
Scores of African governments and business officials are expected in Hamburg on March 27 and 28 to take part in the 13th German-African Energy Forum. The meeting is expected to set the stage for German and African businesses as well as public enterprises to expand economic ties, strike deals, and combat “energy poverty”. Under the […]
The United Kingdom has announced new funding to give more people and companies across Africa access to affordable, clean energy. The announcement was made lately by UK’s Minister for Africa, Harriett Baldwin. According to Ms. Harriett Baldwin, the new funding will see £30 million added to the Transforming Energy Access program, taking total UK investment […]
Pope Francis will pay a visit to Morocco on March 30-31 during which he will meet King Mohammed VI, visit many churches and meet migrants. The visit comes at the invitation from King Mohammed VI, Commander of the Faithful. This is the second time a Pope visits the majority-Muslim North African country since 1985. Morocco […]
The renewal of the EU-Morocco farm and fisheries agreements will “strengthen further the very important strategic ties binding the two partners”, said, Thursday in Rabat, Elena Valenciano, member of the Foreign Affairs Committee at the European Parliament. “Morocco is a key country for the EU”, affirmed the MEP at a press briefing held after meeting […]
Morocco’s phosphates and fertilizer producer OCP and Spain’s ACS industrial group signed an agreement to build two phosphorus factories for a total cost of 2.7 billion dirhams. The factories will be built in the OCP’s industrial hub of Jorf Lasfar with a production capacity of 5000 tons per day. The two factories will be the […]
Fourteen people will stand before justice in Denmark for apology of terrorism after they shared a video of the murder of two Scandinavian women in Morocco by terrorists acting as lone wolves. Danish student Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, 24, and 28-year-old Norwegian Maren Ueland were found dead at an isolated hiking spot south of Marrakesh on […]
The former Belgian Prime minister Elio di Rupo has voiced the shared will of his country and Morocco to strengthen their bilateral cooperation and to work with other African countries. This triangular cooperation for a shared prosperity has been discussed with the Minister of Foreign Affairs Nasser Bourita, said Elio Di Rupo at a press […]
The Moroccan expatriates in Europe were the largest group that acquired the citizenship of a EU country in 2017, according to the European Union Statistics Agency. In 2017, around 825,000 persons acquired citizenship of a Member country of the European Union (EU), down from 995,000 in 2016 and 841,000 in 2015, said Eurostat. The Moroccans […]