First Independent Mena Newspaper
Ways to strengthen the strategic relationship existing between Morocco and the United States were reviewed at a meeting in Rabat this Monday Head of Government, Aziz Akhannouch, and a six-member delegation of US Congressmen representing both the Republican and Democratic parties. During the meeting, the two parties surveyed the various aspects of multi-sector bilateral cooperation, […]
Efret logistics Company has launched lately a road freight service from the UK to Morocco, a politically stable and business-friendly country increasingly looking to new markets to promote growth. The expansion of the Moroccan economy is creating new opportunities for UK firms. Last year, UK’s exports to the North African Kingdom reached £1.4 billion which […]
Chad’s authorities have announced they had cleared 10 candidates, including the country’s interim president and the recently-appointed prime minister, for the long-awaited elections scheduled for 6 May, while barring two fierce opponents of the military regime from standing. Chad’s Constitutional Court said Sunday (24 March) the applications of outspoken opponents Nassour Ibrahim Neguy Koursami and […]
Senegal’s leading opposition candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Monday (25 March) appeared to be reaching victory in the country’s delayed presidential election, as people have already taken to the streets in celebration of the end of incumbent President Macky Sall’s administration. The 44-year-old opposition candidate and tax inspector Bassirou Diomaye Faye appears to be reaching […]
Saudi renewable energy company, Acwa Power, said a new breakdown will leave a solar plant in Noor Ouarzazate project idle until November 2024, totaling losses estimated at 47 million dollars. The breakdown was due to a storage problem, it said in a statement on the Saudi Stock Exchange, adding that it was planning to build […]
South African parliament Speaker asked for a special leave to avoid arrest after her home was raided as part of a corruption probe. Her case highlights rampant corruption within the ruling ANC elites as the country braces for presidential elections in two months, amid failing public services such as electricity and water supply. Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, […]
The Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE), the biggest lender in the country, issued a deadline, asking people who have withdrawn or transferred money from the bank during the technical glitch to return the funds or face prosecution. Up to 40 million dollars have been withdrawn during the technical failure that took several hours to repair […]
The EU plans an aid of up to €164.5 over three years to help Tunisia stop migrants from crossing to Europe, the Financial Times reported. The EU funding will be invested in a training academy for the country’s national maritime guard, implemented with German federal police, it said. The funds will also help equip the […]
King Mohammed VI sent a message of condolences and solidarity to Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin, following the terrorist attack that targeted a concert hall in Moscow and that left many people killed or injured, describing the assault as “heinous and reprehensible.” In this message, the Sovereign expressed Morocco’s strong condemnation of this cowardly and criminal […]
A Royal Navy patrol boat intercepted, on Friday, 260 km southwest off the southern city of Dakhla, a pirogue carrying 165 sub-Sharan would-be migrants, including 4 corpses. The pirogue, which had intended to reach the Canary Islands, set sail on March 6, the General Staff of the Royal Armed Forces said in a press […]