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The Royal Armed Forces (FAR) have received the first batch of the Chinese long-range anti-aircraft defense system with a Chinese FD-2000B battery, ordered in 2017, according to the Spanish website Defensa.com. The first battery for the FD-2000B system was received in the middle of this year, and was activated a few weeks ago in Morocco’s […]
Egypt is in contact with Chinese companies with three potential companies for the production of electric cars in 2023 for an investment of $127 million, Bloomberg reported. The companies, no identified, will collaborate with state-run El Nasr Automotive Manufacturing Co., Public Enterprise Minister Hisham Tawfik told Bloomberg in an interview. Tawfik also the media production […]
U.S. President Joe Biden plans to host a summit with African leaders to strengthen U.S. ties with the continent, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced. “President Biden intends to host a summit with U.S. and African leaders to pursue a high-level diplomatic policy … that will transform relations and make effective cooperation possible,” the […]
Morocco received a new shipment of Chinese anti-coronavirus vaccines, from Sinopharm, as a RAM plane landed at Casablanca Airport Tuesday coming from Beijing. According to sources from the health authorities, this shipment consists of 2 million doses, which means that Morocco will be able to vaccinate another one million people in the coming weeks. This […]
Morocco received, this Sunday, May 23, more than 2 million doses of the Sinopharm vaccine. Two RAM Dreamliner, carrying this new batch, landed in the early afternoon at Mohammed V International Airport in Casablanca, local media reports. This shipment follows the 2 million doses of Sinopharm anti-covid vaccine received on Wednesday, May 19, as China […]
China promised Morocco 10 million sinopharm coronavirus vaccine doses in April and May, the Moroccan parliament said. The shipment is part of the cooperation between Morocco and China to counter the coronavirus in implementation of the wishes of King Mohammed VI and president Xi of China, the Parliament said in a statement following talks […]
China and Tunisia signed Tuesday inked a grant deal valued at around $14.2 million (TND40 million) earmarked for the financing of projects in the North African country. The signing took place between Tunisia’s top diplomat Othman Jerandi and his counterpart Zhang Jiang. The deal did not detail projects to be determined by both countries, Webdo […]
As the new Libyan Government of National Unity is endeavoring to unify State institutions and pacify the country, queues are being formed for the opening of diplomatic representations in the North African country. So, after France reopened its embassy in Tripoli on Monday, China announced plans to re-open its embassy in the Libyan capital, […]
Chinese and Turkish textile companies will supply the Tunisian armed forces with uniforms over the next three years for a value estimated at around $22.7 billion. The procurement, kept secret, was disclosed by Nafaa Ennaifer, the President of the Tunisian Textile Federation who on a Facebook post said the contracts awarded to the foreign […]
Egypt Suez Canal authorities Monday said the ship which has blocked navigation in the canal has refloated, adding that the course of the ship has been corrected 80 per cent. Chairman and Managing Director of the Suez Canal Authority Osama Rabie said that water level reached 2 meters, allowing, Ever Give, a Panamanian container vessel’s […]