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German project developer Conjuncta, Egypt’s energy provider Infinity, and the United Arab Emirates’ Masdar have signed an agreement to set up an international consortium for a hydrogen project in Mauritania requiring a total investment of $34 billion. The project will have a production capacity of up to 8 million tons of green hydrogen or other […]
Kidane Zekarias Habtemariam, an Eritrean fugitive accused of being “the world’s most wanted” people smuggler has been arrested in Sudan in coordination with United Arab Emirates authorities, Interpol announced. The Eritrean national, on Interpol’s radar since 2019, has been accused of being a smuggling kingpin, running a camp in Libya where hundreds of East African […]
Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen has announced that the next Abraham accords summit will be held in Morocco in March 2023. The U.S. had brokered in 2020 the Abraham Accords for the normalization of relations between Israel, Morocco, the UAE and Bahrain. The signatories pledge to strengthen peace in the Middle East and around the […]
A group of senior Emirati police officers started this Monday a two-month training at the Royal Moroccan Police Institute within the frame of the exchange of expertise and partnership sealed between the two countries’ police institutions. The advanced training includes theoretical and practical courses on judiciary policing, the fight against crimes and forensic science. It […]
The Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) deposited $1 billion at the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) at the time the Gulf country was close to a deal to acquire a government stake in some of the major companies in the North African country, Asharq Business reports, citing informed sources. The funds, the sources told the media, […]
The International Monetary Fund, IMF, announced November 1 the re-election of Egypt’s ex-Minister of Investment, Mahmoud Mohieldine, as executive director and member of the board. Mohieldin represents a group of Arab states, namely Egypt, the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, and Yemen, along with the Maldives. Following his re-election Mohieldin stressed that […]
Gabon and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have removed visa requirements between the two countries for officials. Michaël Moussa-Adamo signed the deal Wednesday with his UAE counterpart, on the sidelines of the visit of the Gabonese leader Ali Bongo Ondimba to the Gulf country. Per deal, officials of both countries will not need a visa […]
Cooperation between Morocco and the United Arab Emirates in the field of defense, exchange of experience and the setting up of joint defense industry projects was discussed at meetings in Rabat Wednesday. The first meeting gathered the Minister in charge of National Defense Administration Abdellatif Loudiyi and Chief of Staff of the UAE Armed Forces […]
National Security and Territorial Surveillance Director General Abdellatif Hammouchi on Friday received the Commander-in-Chief of the Abu Dhabi Police, Major General Faris Khalaf Al Mazrouei, currently visiting Morocco at the head of a large security delegation. This meeting was an opportunity to review the levels of security cooperation and areas of police coordination on various […]
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has hailed the “transformational changes” generated by the Abraham Accords brokered by the U.S. for the normalization of relations between Israel, Morocco, the UAE and Bahrain. In a press release issued Thursday by the State Department, Mr. Blinken said: “this week, we celebrate the two-year anniversary of the signing […]