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Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani has tested positive for Covid-19, the official news agency announced Tuesday. “Medical examinations carried out on Monday by Mr. Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani, after contracting a cold, showed a positive result and a contamination with Covid-19 with mild symptoms,” the Ami agency said. Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani, […]
Algerians woke up to renewed queues on cooking oil and bread in 2022, two commodities that joined a list of long essential goods whose prices spiked under the impact of high inflation and import cuts. The queues indicate shortages coupled with a high inflation of basic products under the impact of a state policy to […]
Morocco invited bids for a study concerning the setting up of LNG infrastructure and a floating storage and regasification unit in the port of Mohammedia, the port agency said. January 25 was set as a deadline for the bid which aims at helping the port agency upgrade the port to host LNG and FSRU infrastructure. […]
The kingdom of Morocco envisions to build a carbon-free energy sector by 2050 as the North African country adopts a new energy vision, Bas Carbone (Low Carbon). The new vision, made of seven orientations, aims first and foremost at accelerating the strong development of renewable energies with a view to decarbonize electricity, with an indicative […]
Morocco sets an example for other African countries in industrialization and export promotion, Zambian expert Edward Chisanga said Monday. “What we need the most is to follow the path taken by countries like Morocco whose world exports of manufactured products amount to 72%,” said Mr. Chisanga, member of the International Center for trade and sustainable […]
Egypt is expected to receive, this year, the permission to build two nuclear plants for electricity generation. Amjad Al-Wakeel, Chairman of Egypt’s Nuclear Power Plant Authority (NPPA), told Zawya the projects already in phases will be implemented in the second half of 2022. NPPA is coordinating with the contractor Rosatom of Russia to obtain […]
King Mohammed VI of Morocco has been named “Personality of the Year 2021”, by former French socialist deputy Julien Dray, in recognition of the Monarch’s outstanding democratic achievements and his firm solidarity with African countries. Speaking lately on French TV channel CNEWS, Mr. Dray said under the leadership of the Moroccan Sovereign, the North African […]
Researchers from Morocco, Israel, and France have discovered remnants of a small Jewish community in the mountains of Morocco. The ruins of the community’s synagogue in the small village of Tamanart – located on the outskirts of the Sahara desert – were found while conducting a preliminary survey of Jewish sites in the area and […]
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) and the Qatari TV channel Al-Jazeera have adopted Morocco’s undivided map, including its Sahara territory, dealing a hard blow to the Algerian regime and its polisario puppet. The move comes after the Arab League’s recent decision to adopt a unified map of the Arab world, showing undivided Morocco including […]
Morocco’s high-speed train, Al Boraq, has started using green energy as of January 1, 2022, the National Railways Office (ONCF) announced in a press release. Thanks to the clean energy provided by a national operator, ONCF greens the power cycle of the national railway network, substituting its electricity consumption with clean energy. The Office operates […]