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Bahrain’s Al Baraka Bank deems that the regulatory framework in Morocco is conducive for the launch of an Islamic finance venture. The Bank’s Chief Executive, Adnan Ahmed Yousif, told Reuters that the Bank targets the expanding Islamic finance in Morocco in effort to diversify assets and revenues in Africa. Morocco is attractive for Islamic banks […]
The Governor of the Italian Island of Sardinia has raised the alarm requesting help from Rome to curb the rising influx of illegal embarcations from Algeria, which has become a new Mediterranean illegal migration route to Europe. About 800 people have made the crossing from Algeria this year, landing on beaches in Sardinia in small […]
Mauritanian authorities persist on maintaining a blackout on the practice of slavery in the country by denying access to international civil rights organizations, the latest of which is a US anti-slavery delegation that planned meetings with Mauritanian government officials and activists. The group, which includes leading US abolitionists, was rejected entry visas after landing at […]
The UK government has been accused of putting arms sales to despots ahead of human rights as British arms manufacturers have exported almost £5bn worth of weapons to countries that are judged to have repressive regimes, including Algeria, in the 22 months since the Conservative party won the latest election, the Guardian reported. Algeria was […]
A delegation of India’s Titagarh Group is on a visit to Morocco to explore investments opportunities in the North African country’s expanding rail sector. Led by the Group CEO Umesh Choxdhary, the Titagarh delegation held talks with Moroccan officials including Morocco’s Transport, Logistics and Water Minister Abdelkader Amara. The Moroccan ministry announced in a statement […]
Thales, French aerospace industry leader, has opened a new industrial competence center in Casablanca, with capabilities spanning all aspects of 3D metal printing. Spanning over a surface area of 1000 square meters, this plant was achieved for a total cost estimated at €20 million and equipped with cutting-edge technologies to produce satellites parts, said Thales, […]
The Qatari QInvest Fund and the Moroccan Sovereign Wealth Fund Ithmar Capital have set up a joint venture, through which they are to partner in carrying out three large-scale tourism projects to be launched shortly in Morocco. According to the Moroccan news portal, le360, the recently created new company, Oryx Capital, will carry out studies […]
Morocco’s African leadership, the situation in North Africa and the Sahel as well as the longstanding American-Moroccan relations were at the heart of talks Morocco’s Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita had with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and other US officials during a visit to Washington Thursday. In a statement to the press, Bourita said […]
Tip-offs offered by Moroccan security services helped France bust a terrorist cell with suspected links to the perpetrators of Catalonia attacks, Moroccan media reported. The information forwarded by Moroccan intelligence services led France to locate and arrest three individuals who were plotting a bomb attack on a bank, Al Ahdath Al Maghribia reported. French Interior […]
The multi-faceted relations between the United States and Morocco were reviewed at a meeting in Washington Thursday between Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita. The meeting provided an opportunity for the two officials to discuss a number of issues of shared interest, reported the news portal le360, quoting a source close […]