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NG9 Holding, the UAE-based investment group, and Dar Alsalam Sport Management Company, the UAE subsidiary of Morocco’s Dar Al Salam Group, have agreed to explore joint investment opportunities in Morocco. The targeted sectors include tourism, hospitality, sports, real estate investment, and marine asset and facility management, marinas, the companies said in a joint statement. The […]
Morocco has sharply expanded its footprint in Germany’s palm date market, despite being one of the world’s largest importers of the fruit, according to Eastfruit news platform. Between July 2025 and May 2026, Germany imported 714 tons of Moroccan medjool dates worth more than €4.2 million. This figure is 22 times higher than the total […]
India Pesticides, a major chemical and agrochemical manufacturing company, has announced it secured regulatory approval for a fungicide formulation in Morocco, marking its official entry into the North African agrochemical market. The Company said approval is expected to drive growth in the company’s export revenues while contributing to India’s foreign exchange earnings. This development represents […]
Libya and Nigeria have reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening African coordination and cooperation, while welcoming the reopening of the headquarters of the Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD) in Tripoli. The commitment was made during a meeting between the Libyan and Nigerian Foreign Affairs Ministers, Taher Al-Baour and Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, on the sidelines of the 49th […]
Morocco strongly condemned drone attacks targeting oil installations in Saudi Arabia, describing them as a serious violation of the kingdom’s sovereignty and a threat to regional stability. The position was expressed by Morocco’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement in which it denounced “in the strongest terms” the attacks against what it called the […]
The United States is supporting a major green hydrogen project in Moroccan Sahara with a $5.7 million grant to finance feasibility study to advance a $4.5 billion green ammonia production facility in Laayoune. The American grant has been awarded by U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) to ORNX—an international consortium comprising U.S.-based Ortus Climate Mitigation […]
The one of the largest container ships in the world, made a landmark call this Week at the TC2 container terminal of Tanger Med Port, underscoring the facility’s growing strategic importance in global shipping networks. Operating on the flagship French Asia Line (FAL 3), which connects major Asian and European ports, the LNG-powered vessel will […]
Türkiye has reaffirmed its commitment to supporting peace efforts, humanitarian assistance and post-conflict reconstruction in Sudan following talks between the two countries’ Foreign Ministers Hakan Fidan and Mohieddin Salem in Ankara on Tuesday, July 28. Fidan said Türkiye would continue to back efforts to end the conflict, meet the humanitarian needs of the Sudanese people […]
U.S. San Francisco Chronicle has hailed the rail travel experience on Morocco’s high-speed train “Al Boraq”, the first and only high-speed railway in Africa. Al Boraq is run by Morocco’s national rail company, ONCF. It cuts journey times by half between tangier in the North and Casablanca, said the American newspaper in a story authored […]
Vossloh Services France and Portuguese company Futrifer Indústrias Ferroviárias have launched a joint venture “Vossloh Futrifer Services Maroc” to provide maintenance services to the rapidly developing rail transport market in the Kingdom. The JV based in Casablanca is specialized in railway Switches and Crossings (S&C) which are critical track components that guide trains from one […]