France’s Rouen Weekly Grain Exports Fall 46% on Africa Decline
By Rudy Ruitenberg Grain exports from France’s Rouen port, Europe’s biggest cereal-shipping hub, fell 46 percent in the week through yesterday to the lowest in five weeks on a lack of cargoes for Algeriaand West Africa. Outbound grain was 56,801 metric tons between...
France’s La Rochelle Port Grain Shipments Jumped 24% in January
By Rudy Ruitenberg France’s port of La Rochelle, the country’s second-largest cereal-export hub, shipped 24 percent more grain for export in January than in the previous month on a jump in wheat cargoes destined for West Africa. Outbound grain rose to 247,184 metric...
Ukraine Has No Plans to Limit Grain Exports, Minister Says
By Daryna Krasnolutska and Kateryna Choursina Ukraine will continue to export grains and has no plans to limit shipments, Agriculture Minister Mykola Prysyazhnyuk told reporters in Kiev. Grain exports stalled in February, the minister said today. “We do not plan any...
Moroccan bank Attijari’s net profit up 11.8 pct
RABAT, Feb 16 (Reuters) - AttijariWafabank, Morocco's biggest private lender, posted an 11.8 percent rise in net consolidated income to 5.3 billion dirhams ($620 million) on Thursday. The bank, in which a conglomerate controlled by the Moroccan royal family is a key...
Muslim group boss: No Syria military intervention
By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- The international community must rule out military intervention as a solution to the Syrian crisis, the leader of a global Islamic group said Wednesday. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, secretary general of the...
UK Has No Concern About Rise To Power Of Islamist Party In Morocco: British MP
Rabat - The United Kingdom has no concern to express about the rise to power of an Islamist party in Morocco, namely the Justice and Development Party (PJD), which leads the current government, said on Tuesday British MP Andrew Murrison (Conservative Party). "We have...
Arab spring News : Feb 15, 2012
Is an Arab Spring in the air for Algeria? Reuters By Lamine Chikhi and Christian Lowe | ALGIERS (Reuters) - When Moncef Marzouki, a former dissident transformed by the "Arab Spring" into Tunisia's president, paid an official visit to Algeria on Sunday, red and white...
REEL FOOD: SIPS, SNACKS INSPIRED BY OSCAR WINNERS
By Michelle Locke and Alison Ladman For the Associated Press Published Wednesday, February 15, 2012 Associated Press Great movies and great food are box office gold, from Forrest Gump's chocolates to "Silence of the Lambs" anti-hero Hannibal Lecter's disturbing...
EU Called To Play Constructive Role To Boost Maghreb Integration, Former Spanish FM
Paris - The EU is called to play a constructive role to encourage Maghreb integration which hampers the settlement of the Sahara issue and the closing of the Moroccan-Algerian borders, former Spanish Foreign Minister Ana Palacio underlined. "We must get rid of the...
Morocco, USA Keen To Develop Trade Ties
Rabat - Minister delegate to the Foreign minister Youssef Amrani met, on Wednesday in Rabat, with an American delegation led by Ambassador and deputy US Trade Representative Miriam Sapiro on means and ways to foster bilateral trade ties. Amrani highlighted the solid...