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Morocco is preparing a new strategy to lure more tourists with the target of receiving 12 million tourists in 2018 and 15 million in 2020. After closing 2017 with a record number of 11.35 million tourists visiting the country, that is a 10% rise compared to the previous year, the tourism ministry will unveil a […]
The GENIE program, developed by Morocco’s education ministry, won the UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for Innovation in Education. Launched in 2005, GENIE is a large-scale, long-term national policy and initiative developed and implemented by the Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training, Higher Education and Scientific Research of Morocco, the prize organizers […]
Despite international outcry against slavery across the globe, Mauritanian authorities continue their crackdown on anti-slavery activists with the arrest recently of abolitionist Biram Ould Abeid who was interrogated by authorities following three days of demonstrations led by the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA). Analysts consider his arrest as a move by the government to […]
A Moroccan delegation, led by Foreign Minister, will visit Lisbon Tuesday (march 6) for “bilateral talks” with the UN Secretary General’s personal envoy for Western Sahara, Horst Köhler, the Foreign Ministry said on Friday. The Moroccan side’s participation in this meeting, at the “invitation of the personal envoy”, aims to “reach a final political solution […]
OCP Africa, a subsidiary of the Moroccan Phosphate OCP group, has delivered 32,000 tons of Diammonium Phosphate (DAP) to Tanzania, after a previous shipment of 23,500 tons of this phosphorus fertilizer. These shipments of DAP show OCP Africa’s commitment to guaranteeing to the farmers of this African country access to fertilizers at competitive prices. They […]
Tunisia will invest about $ 5 billion (12 billion dinars) in electricity and energy projects, between 2018 and 2020. According to a statement released by the government, the electrical projects include the construction of a submarine power- transmission line, with a transmission capacity of 600 MW. The infrastructure to link the country to Italy is […]
The southern Moroccan region of Dakhla-Oued Eddahab embraces to boost its tourism and become Morocco’s ecological tourism Hub. More than 500 million DH have been earmarked to carry out tourism projects in the region, including several ecotourism projects, particularly in the bay of Oued Eddahab and along the coasts. The region tourism authorities do want […]
The European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) has provided the Tunisian banking and insurance software developer Vermeg a €25 million loan for the acquisition of Lombard Risk, a leading global provider of integrated regulatory reporting and collateral management solutions. Founded in 2002, Vermeg counts major internationally-renowned financial institutions and central banks in more than […]
Zambia has severed ties with the SADR separatist entity and will inform international organizations of its final decision, said Zambia’s Foreign Minister Harry Kabala. Kabala, who was speaking at a press conference in Rabat together with Morocco’s Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, lauded the ever-growing cooperation ties between his country and Morocco notably after the milestone […]
Turkish President Recep Tayip Erdogan urged Algerian authorities to lift the import restrictions and quotas it has imposed in a bid to curb the surging imports bill and consequently delay the depletion of its foreign reserves. Erdogan, who paid a three day visit to Algiers as part of an Africa tour, told the Turkish-Algerian business […]