First Independent Mena Newspaper
A trade union representing workers in the arts and media industries in Nigeria has appealed to the country’s National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to rescind its earlier decision to revoke the licenses of 52 broadcast stations. Nigeria’s broadcasting regulator on Friday (19 August) announced it will revoke the licenses of 52 media organizations, including 20 state […]
Somali forces took control of a popular hotel Sunday (21 August) and ended a deadly 30-hour siege in the country’s capital Mogadishu with security personnel clearing explosives planted by al-Shabab fighters in the damaged building. The Mogadishu attack began when fighters from the al-Qaeda-linked armed group unleashed a gun-and-bomb assault on the popular Hayat Hotel […]
Australia’s Fortescue Metals Group has taken another step forward in its hopes of developing an iron ore mine in Gabon after it signed a majority-owned joint venture agreement with the country’s government. The world’s fourth largest iron ore miner announced Friday (19 August) it had struck an agreement with the government of the West African […]
Australia-based Invictus Energy plans to start drilling its first exploration well for oil and gas in Cabora Bassa location in the northern part of Zimbabwe by early September. The first well, Mukuyu-1, will be 3.5 km deep at a cost of $16m, said Paul Chimbodza, chairman of the Australian company’s local subsidiary Geo Associates on […]
At least 20 people have been killed in an attack by the jihadist group Al-Shabaab on a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu, Somali police spokesman Abdifatah Duudushe told reporters Saturday. The attack began on Friday night and lasted about 15 hours after members of the Somali jihadist group forced their way into the Hayat […]
Marrakech will host the 13th edition of the Africa Public-Private Partnership, Africa PPP, from October 25 to 27. The Africa PPP Conference, held under the theme of “Accelerating Project Delivery and Partnerships,” features certified training on PPP and a 2-day conference. It will focus on projects in renewable energy, waste to energy, wastewater, bulk water, […]
King Mohammed VI gave directives to facilitate the return of Moroccan talents abroad and urged banks and public authorities to make it easier for them to invest in their homeland. “Public institutions and the national finance and corporate sector are invited to open up to investors from the expatriate community, and to adopt, to this […]
Buoyed by recent regional and international support for its sovereignty over the Sahara territory, Morocco’s King Mohammed VI called on other countries that have yet to make their positions on the artificial clear to take an unambiguous stand. “the Sahara issue is the lens through which Morocco looks at the world. It is the clear, […]
King Mohammed VI on Saturday delivered a speech to the Nation on the occasion of the 69th anniversary of the Revolution of the King and the People. Here follows the full text of the royal speech: “Praise be to God, May peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, His Kith and Kin Dear Citizens, Today, […]
The Bet Yehudah Jewish memory museum in the Medina of Tangier was inaugurated on Friday, after completion of the rehabilitation of the Assayag Synagogue, which required a total budget of MAD 2 million. The “Beit Yehouda” museum, meant to preserve and promote the cultural heritage specific to the Judaism of Megorachim, established in the northern […]