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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) announced on Monday, 22nd December, the approval of a 5.8-million-US-dollar project, financed by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), aimed at tackling environmental degradation and advancing sustainable development in Libya’s Ubari Lakes basin. The five-year initiative, to be implemented in collaboration with Libya’s Ministry of Environment, will prioritise reversing land […]
Nigeria has introduced a comprehensive ban on the export of wood and allied products as part of a renewed strategy to curb illegal logging and deforestation, local media reported on Thursday, December 18, 2025. The policy, anchored in a presidential executive order, will see all previously issued export licences and permits revoked. The announcement was […]
Morocco and the United States have signed the fourth cooperation action plan in the fields of environment and sustainable development, covering the 2024-2027 period. The plan, initialed in Rabat on Wednesday by Minister of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development, Leila Benali, and the US Ambassador to Morocco, Puneet Talwar, aims to bolster the two parties’ […]
The British government has appointed Rob Butler new trade envoy to Morocco, a gateway for investors to African markets. His mission is to strengthen further trade and economic partnership between the two countries Rob is a member of the ruling Conservative party. He was elected MP for Aylesbury in 2019. He was a TV news […]
Kenyan lawmakers are considering changes to the Mining Act of 2016, thus following in the footsteps of Uganda that passed its Mining and Minerals Act in October 2022, aiming to reform its nascent mining industry to improve the state’s control and oversight of the critical industry. The Mining (Amendment) Bill that was tabled in the […]
Morocco is taking part in the 19th African ministerial conference on the environment which opened Tuesday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to discuss ways of enhancing cooperation to counter environmental challenges in the continent. The four-day gathering is opportunity to strengthen Africa’s collective engagement in the global environmental agenda, including in the various conference of the […]
Morocco and Egypt have signed an agreement seeking to upgrade their cooperation in matters of environment and sustainable development. The agreement, signed in Sharm el-Sheikh, on the sidelines of the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27), takes into consideration recent developments in this field at the […]
Tunisian Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi won a confidence vote from the parliament for the recent cabinet shake-up that saw the entry of 11 new ministers. Lawmakers approved Mechichi’s new picks for the ministries of interior, justice, health, employment, industry, energy, agriculture, environment, sports, culture and land affairs. Mechichi conducted the reshuffle on Jan. 16 on […]
The two-day 7th Islamic Conference of environment ministers (ICEM), held in Rabat on Wednesday, adopted the draft Rabat Declaration on Environment Protection and Achieving Sustainable Development Goals, which calls on member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to commit to supporting the international agenda for sustainable development, in accordance with the regionally and internationally […]
King Mohammed VI reaffirmed the need of striking a balance between development requirements and the need to protect the environment, saying that Morocco will be able to lay the foundations of a green economy by 2020. In an address to the participants in the 7th Islamic Conference of Environment Ministers, the King underscored that Morocco […]