Sound Energy All Set To Drill First Moroccan Well
Rigzone By Rigzone staff Junior gas firm Sound Energy announced Monday that ground works have begun on its Tendrara license area onshore eastern Morocco. The company also said that all contracts have now been awarded for its first well on the license. The civil works...
Maroc Telecom Revenue Stabilises In 2015
Telecompaper Maroc Telecom's operations in Morocco generated revenues of MAD 21.03 billion in 2015, slightly down by 0.5 percent, thanks to fixed-line and internet business which continued to surge (+8.6% year-on-year) offsetting the decline in the Mobile segment...
Peace Corps Volunteer Values Staying Active In Old Age
KPLU.org Alice Carter has traveled a long road to get to where she is today. Morocco, that is. Carter, 87, is the oldest current volunteer in the Peace Corps. She says she's been interested in the world for a long time. This isn't her first adventure. Even in her...
Bank Of China Gains Foothold In Morocco
Daily Sabah Finance FRENCH PRESS AGENCY - AFP The Bank of China has established a presence in Morocco that will further reinforce the Asian nation's far-reaching influence in resource-rich Africa, officials said. The commercial bank, one of the largest in China,...
Divided Libya Proposes New National Unity Government
Yahoo News AFP Libya's UN-backed council announced the formation of a revised national unity government on Sunday, with the internationally-recognised parliament to vote on the line-up early this week. The council -- tasked with ushering in a peace deal to end years...
Libya’s Presidential Council Announces Revised Unity Government
Reuters by Aziz al-Yaakoubi Libya's Presidential Council named a revised lineup late on Sunday for a unity government under a United Nations-backed plan aimed at ending the conflict in the North African state. One of the council's members, Fathi al-Majbari, said in a...
Morocco Condemns Terror Attack In Mali’s Kidal
Star Africa by APA Morocco has unequivocally condemned Friday’s terrorist attack in Kidal which claimed the lives of three Malian soldiers and six Guinean peacekeepers under MINUSMA. Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement offered the kingdom’s...
Austria Declares Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia ‘Safe Countries’
World Bulletin/News Desk Austrian government is struggling to curb the economic migrant flow into the country. Austria announced Monday it will place six nations including Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia on its list of "safe countries of origin", as it seeks to curb the...
Moroccan National Carrier To Launch First Intra-Africa Route In March
ETN Global Travel News Royal Air Maroc, the Moroccan national airliner, is set to commence the first intra-Africa route to serve the Accra-Monrovia-Freetown corridor. The service, scheduled to start in the middle of March this year will see the airline conducting...
Arab Women In Science – Where Are They Heading?
Al Arabiya Opinion Yara al-Wazir In the Middle East, more women enroll in degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) related subjects than men, a study by The Economist revealed recently. February 11 this year was also marked as the first ever...