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Morocco: CNDH Elected to Board of Directors of Global Alliance of Rights Institutions

Morocco’s National Human Rights Council (CNDH) has been elected lately member of the Geneva-based Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI), representing the Network of African National Human Rights Institutions (NANHRI). During the latest General Assembly of NANHRI, CNDH was also re-elected member of the Sub-Committee of Accreditation (SCA) of GANHRI and member of […]

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Morocco strengthens air defense with Thales Ground Master 400 Radar

Morocco has reinforced further its airspace defense with the acquisition of Thales Ground Master 400 radar, offering the Royal Armed forces tactical advantage as the mobile radar system can easily deploy and detect all types of aerial threats.   The delivery of the long-range radar was made end July 2021 under a contract signed in […]

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Dar Al Moukawil: Attijariwafa bank opens its 16th center in Laâyoune

Attijariwafa bank, one of Morocco’s leading banking institutions, has expanded its “Dar Al Moukawil” network with the inauguration of its 16th center in the city of Laâyoune, on the occasion of the 46th anniversary of the Green March.   The institution is thereby strengthening its support for small businesses and project leaders in the Moroccan […]

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Egypt to launch world’s largest spinning factory in 2022

Egypt will inaugurate in the second half of 2022, the world’s largest spinning factory led by eight companies. Hisham Tawfik, Minister of the Public Enterprises Sector made the announcement during a meeting with the contracting companies to review the project progress. The project to be developed by Gama Construction Company encompasses 65 buildings and a […]

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Morocco: Railway projects to benefit from over 7.7 billion DH investment for 2022-2024 period

The forecasts of the investment program of the Moroccan National Railways Office (ONCF) for the period 2022-2024 amount to more than 7.72 billion DH, according to the report on public establishments and enterprises supplemented to the 2022 draft finance bill. This program, spread over 2022 with 2.9 billion dirhams, 2023 with 2.22 billion dirhams and […]

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Tunisia: Powerful UGTT calls for strike after student stabbed teacher

UGTT, Tunisia’s most powerful workers’ union, has called for a general strike for this Tuesday to denounce the stabbing of a high school teacher by a student in the costal town of Ezzahra, south of capital Tunis. Sahbi Ben Slama, a high-school History and Geography teacher was assaulted by a student who stabbed him multiple […]

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Morocco’s military capacities to be enhanced with Israel’s Iron Dome Shield

Israeli defense company Rafael is reportedly seeking to supply Morocco with its “Iron Dome” missile-defense system which is capable of intercepting rockets, mortars, artillery shells, aircraft, helicopters and UAVs, according to Moroccan news website Le Desk.ma. The Israeli system would enable the Royal Armed Forces to add another defense layer for the protection of the […]

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Morocco, Champion of renewable energies, leads the way in Africa (France Info)

Champion of renewable energies, Morocco, forerunner in solar and water resources mobilization, shows the way on the African continent, underlined the French France Info media. “The Kingdom, which hosted the COP22 in 2016, always wants to be at the forefront of the fight against global warming. In Glasgow, it announced that it was working on […]

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Libya: GNU opposes suspension of foreign minister by Presidential Council

The Government of National Unity (GNU), the interim Libyan government, has opposed the decision by the Presidential Council (PC) to suspend the country’s top diplomat Najla Mangoush and refer her for investigation, arguing that the PC has attacked outside its mandate per Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF). The PC Saturday banned Mangoush from traveling outside […]

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United States begins to evacuate its embassy in Addis Ababa

The United States ordered Saturday the departure of its non-essential personnel from its embassy in Ethiopia, where fighting has redoubled this week in the north of the country between government forces and Tigrayan rebels who threaten to march on the capital. The decision was taken “due to the armed conflict, civil unrest and possible shortages,” […]