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Greater Private Sector Participation and Renewable Energy Development to Back Moroccan Electricity Industry Growth, Finds Frost & Sullivan (Press Release)

AfriBiz Written by: Editorial Staff on March 27, 2012. CAPE TOWN, March 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – The robust growth in electricity demand has underlined the need for a significant expansion in future generation, and transmission capacity, in Morocco. This is creating...

FIFA to ban Gambia

Star Africa According to sources close to the FIFA authorities, the away leg match of the 2013 AFCON qualifier match pitting Gambia against Morocco June 2 could be cancel. This is as a result of Gambia’s none compliance to FIFA’s order demanding Gambia to create a...

Iraq calls on Arab states to waive debt

GULF TIMES Osama Youssef Qaradawi, deputy permanent representative of Qatar to the Arab League, attends an Arab economy, finance and trade ministers meeting in Baghdad yesterday Agencies/Baghdad Iraq asked countries at an Arab League summit yesterday to forgive its...

iShares Refocuses Frontier-ETF Plans

iShares, the world’s largest purveyor of exchange-traded funds, filed what appears to be revised paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission to bring to market a fund focused solely on securities from 21 so-called frontier market countries—a change from two...