Morocco’s ONE seeks 180,000 mt of coal for Mohammedia plant
platts.com London (Platts) - Moroccan state-owned generator Office National de l'Electricite (ONE) has launched a spot tender for 180,000 mt of thermal coal for its Mohammedia power station. The utility is seeking three Panamax cargoes of coal with a minimum net...
KEVIN CAPÉ: Morocco lives astride two worlds
BY KEVIN CAPÉ For The Register-Guard CASABLANCA, Morocco — The sparkling new Morocco Mall, Africa’s largest shopping center, looms by the Atlantic Ocean like a silver spaceship, this country’s latest venture into Western consumerism. The irony is that most Moroccans...
Headspring Develops Solution to Help Improve Greenhouse Gas Reporting for One of the World’s Largest Oil and Gas Companies
Headspring Begins Phase Six of the Custom Software Project for EPA Systems Press Release: Headspring – 5 hours ago AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Headspring, a custom software provider, today announced the beginning of phase six of their extensive project with EPA...
FichtnerSolar Receives Frost & Sullivan Green Excellence in Technology Innovation Award
Integrated Solar Combined Cycle Technology Reflects FichtnerSolar's Excellence in Innovation, Sustainability and Efficiency Press Release: Frost & Sullivan – 9 hours ago LONDON--(Marketwire -01/10/12)- FichtnerSolar receives the prestigious Frost & Sullivan...
Earth observation empowers African scientists to improve water management
SpaceRef Earth observation empowers African scientists to improve water management Source: European Space Agency With many African countries suffering from a lack of water, ESA's TIGER initiative has built capacity to map this precious resource. This new knowledge is...
Underwater cables bring faster internet to West Africa
From Christian Purefoy and Teo Kermeliotis (CNN) -Stretching some 7,000 kilometers along the West African coastline, a submarine fiber-optic cable emerges off the coast of Nigeria to help bridge the digital divide in the continent. Dubbed Main One Cable, the system...
Marrakech To Host Second USA-Maghreb Conference On Entrepreneurship
Marrakech (MAP) - Marrakech will host, on January 17-18, the second USA-Maghreb conference, which is due to bring together 400 participants. The conference, to be held under the theme “Maghreb entrepreneurship", will provide an opportunity to exchange views, establish...
Arab spring News : jan 10, 2012
Arab Spring deals Iran losing cards Winnipeg Free Press When Iran saw the fall of the pro-western regimes in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, it believed that its road to dominance in the Arab world was paved. But it soon discovered that the Arab masses were not eager...
Central banks’ gold reserves increased in November
Bloomberg Gold reserves increased in November at Belarus, Turkey, Tajikistan, Macedonia, Mauritius and Morocco, and declined in Mexico, according to data on the International Monetary Fund’s website. Turkey’s holdings increased to 5.758 million ounces from 4.429...
100 Words On Women In Morocco: Collage Conveys What A Photo Cannot
NPR Photo by Tiana Markova-Gold by Tiana Markova-Gold Tiana Markova-Gold is a freelance documentary photographer based in Brooklyn. In 2010, she and writer Sarah Dohrmann received a prize from Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies to work on their project...