For over 100 days, residents of Figuig in Morocco have been protesting plans to allow a private company to manage the delivery of drinking water. For over three months now, crowds have been taking to the streets of the small oasis town of Figuig in eastern Morocco to protest proposed water privatisation. Every Tuesday and […]
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Addis Ababa — The working visit paid Wednesday by the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, to Morocco is of paramount importance, as it fosters the ongoing evolution of relations between the two countries and reinforces the foundations of a strategic partnership, said in Addis Ababa the Presiding Officer of the Economic, Social and […]
“I believe that understanding each other can help us find more common ground …” Mrs Biden told her audience at the Al-Azhar mosque in Cairo, Egypt Three months after visiting Kenya and Namibia, America’s First Lady, Jill Biden, returns to Africa: Egypt and Morocco. “I believe that understanding each other can help us find more […]
International tech companies ramp up partnerships with GITEX Africa to secure competitive advantage in the burgeoning African digital valley H.E. Dr Ghita Mezzour: “Our ambitions are growing as we look ahead to the second edition of GITEX Africa Morocco in the beautiful city of Marrakech” Dubai, UAE: GITEX Africa, the continent’s largest and most influential […]
The epicentre of Morocco’s devastating earthquake on 8 September was in the High Atlas Mountains, about 71km south-west of Marrakesh. Moina Spooner, from The Conversation Africa, asked Jesús Galindo-Zaldivar, who has been carrying out research on the formation of the Atlas mountains and the geology of the area, about the factors which led to this […]
The country could outperform its low-middle-income African peers – but only if it resolves the Western Sahara/SADR dispute. North Africa and the Sahel have generally been in the news for all the wrong reasons. Coups last year rocked Mali, Niger, Chad and Burkina Faso, warring factions are tearing Libya asunder, and African migrants seeking greener […]