Saudi Developer ACWA Power To Raise $8bn Debt
Arab News Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power plans to raise $8 billion of debt in the first half of this year to finance projects that will help to boost its generating capacity by a third by the end of 2016, its CEO said. The plan comes in the face of difficult market...
Algerian Opposition: Parliament Cancelled Reforms Adopted In 2011
Middle East Monitor Ali Benflis, former Prime Minister and current opposition leader. [File photo] The Algerian regime has cancelled major constitutional reforms adopted in 2011 during the Arab Spring, the Anadolu Agency reported the country’s former Prime Minister...
Morocco, 19th In World Ranking For Number Of Prisoners
ANSAmed Morocco scored 19th in a ranking assessing the number of detained prisoners per country, figuring as one of the states with the highest density of inmates - 76 thousand - on the planet, according to a report by the International Centre for Prison Studies of...
Four Arrested In Morocco For Having Connection With IS
by News Ghana Moroccan authorities said Wednesday they arrested four people for ties to the Islamic State (IS) militant group. The authorities added that the four people had previously served prison sentences under the country’s anti-terrorism law. Initial...
Morocco: HM The King Inaugurates Aquaculture Farm In Oued Ed-Dahab
All Africa Maghreb Arabe Presse (Rabat) HM King Mohammed VI inaugurated, Tuesday in the El Argoub municipality (southern province of Oued Ed-dahab), the "Azura Aquaculture" farm. This aquaculture project, which required an overall budget of 81 million dirhams, is part...
Morocco Stands By Saudi Against Threats To Gulf Peace
Al Arabiya By Staff writer, Al Arabiya News Morocco’s foreign minister said on Wednesday that Rabat stands in “complete solidarity” with Saudi Arabia against any threats to stability of the Gulf region. “We are in complete solidarity with Saudi confronting any...
Fighting Extremism Through Education
Arab News Abdulrahman Al-Rashed To try and sum up the causes of extremism in one word will ultimately lead to a vast generalization. But the main reason behind the cause of extremism is the educational curricula, because this lays the foundations that shape one’s...
Circle Oil Signs MoU In Morocco
Scandoil Circle Oil, together with its partner Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines ('ONHYM'), has signed a Memorandum of Understanding ('MOU') with a potential new gas customer in Morocco, SBS Porcher ('Porcher'). The MOU forms the basis for Circle to sell...
Sound Energy Highlights Ambitions With Morocco Expansion
Proactive Investors UK Philip Whiterow Sound expects to start drilling its first well at the Tendrara licence, in north east Morocco, within the coming weeks. Mediterranean gas is the theme behind Sound's expansion plans. At a time when most talk in the oil sector is...
Medfly Halts Historic U.S./Morocco Trade
The Packer Opinion By Andy Nelson As of Feb. 8, Moroccan citrus is no longer allowed in the U.S. after Medfly was found in a shipment of clementines at the Port of Philadelphia on Jan. 13. John Lazopoulos, Spanish and Moroccan import manager for DNE World Fruit Sales,...