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A group of Moroccan, British, and Italian archaeologists unearthed north-western Africa’s oldest farming complex dating back to 3400-2900 BC in Oued Beht in Morocco, underscoring the country’s key role in the neolithic era in the Mediterranean. The previously unknow Neolithic agricultural complex was unearthed in Oued Beht about 100km east of Rabat and shares similarities […]
The National Oil Corporation (NOC) has solidified strategic cooperation agreements with telecommunications providers Al-Madar, Libyana, and Hatif Libya, as part of the “Toward Smart Oil Cities” initiative. The primary objective of these agreements, signed on September 25, is to modernize and enhance digital infrastructure across Libya’s oil-producing regions. These agreements aim to incorporate state-of-the-art communication […]
The Bayt Mal Al-Qods Agency received the prestigious ALECSO Shield from the Arab Organization for Education, Culture, and Science (ALECSO) in recognition of its outstanding efforts, under the leadership of King Mohammed VI, to support the Holy City of Al-Qods and its Palestinian residents. The award was presented during a ceremony that marked the conclusion […]
The US has given its go-ahead for the sale of forty AGM-154C Joint Stand Off Weapons (JSOW) to Morocco. Morocco intends to use the missiles on its F-16, multi-role fighter aircraft, and will provide enhanced capabilities in effective defense of critical sea lanes, the Pentagon said. The sale “will increase the Royal Moroccan Air Force’s […]
Nigeria is cooking up a storm in the fight against “hidden hunger.” This week, they’re rolling out new rules for fortifying those little flavor bombs we all love – stock cubes. We are talking iron, zinc, folic acid, and vitamin B12, all packed into those tiny squares. It is a big deal because these cubes […]
Morocco’s National Center for Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology (CNESTEN) and the International Atomic Energy Agency inked two major partnership agreements in Vienna on Monday. The agreements were initialed by CNESTEN and IAE Director Generals, Hamid Marah and Rafael Mariano Grossi, on the sidelines of the Agency’s 68th General Conference. The first agreement concerns the […]
Telecom operator, Maroc Telecom, has paid 6.3 billion dirhams ($630 mln) in damages to its competitor Inwi after it was indicted by a court for anti-competitive practices. The fine represents 17% of the firm’s turnover and exceeds the 6.1 billion dirhams it made in profit last year. Fingers are pointing to Maroc Telecom’s CEO Abdesslam […]
Two Moroccan nano-satellites, “UM5-EOSAT” and “UM5SAT-RIBAT”, have been launched lately by SpaceX on Falcon 9 rocket from U.S. Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The launch of these two first satellites, weighing each 4kg, is the culmination of a long scientific cooperation set between Mohammed V University in Rabat, the National Centre for Scientific & […]
Australian company Worley has announced that its Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) work on a green ammonia project in Morocco will be launched in the third quarter of 2024. In its annual report released Tuesday, Worley said the Tarfaya project, the world’s first Power-to-X green ammonia program, includes a transmission grid, hydrogen and ammonia plants and […]
Egypt has secured the 95th rank in the top 100 science and technology clusters in the 2024 Global Innovation Index. This recognition positions Cairo as the only North African cluster on the list, according to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) report. The report noted that from 2019 to 2023, Cairo filed 166 patent applications […]