Morocco Wants Algiers To Join Western Sahara Talks
Middle East Confidential by Peter Mulvany U.N’s special envoy to Western Sahara Christopher Ross told the Security Council that his efforts to settle the territorial dispute between Morocco and the Polisario Front “have not borne any real fruit” according to the...
Enel Is Said To Be Low Bidder For Wind Projects In Morocco
Bloomberg Anna Hirtenstein Enel Green Power SpA was the lowest bidder in a tender to build five wind farms totaling 850 megawatts in Morocco, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. There were as many as five other bidders for the project, said the person,...
Morocco To Launch 200 MW Solar Power Tender By End-January
SeeNews CET by Mariyana Yaneva Moroccan electricity and water utility company ONEE will launch a call for pre-qualification bids for a 200 MW solar power project by the end of January 2016, Moroccan daily Le Matin reported on Tuesday citing informed sources. According...
Public Transport In Morocco To Receive US$200 Million Boost
World Bank Group Press Release Morocco is overhauling its urban public transport to meet the demand of its growing urban population. To support this, the World Bank has announced a US$200 million program to improve urban mobility in Morocco, and in particular the...
Fatema Mernissi, A Founder Of Islamic Feminism, Dies At 75
New York Times by Margalit Fox photo: Amy Toensing Fatema Mernissi, a Moroccan sociologist who was one of the founders of Islamic feminism, whose work included studies of the sexual politics of Islamic Scripture and a memoir of her childhood in a domestic harem, died...
Thales To Establish 3D Printing Centre In Morocco
Aerospace Technology Photo: courtesy of Thales Group French company Thales will establish a new industrial competence centre for 3D metal printing in Morocco. Thales said that 3D printing will reduce the time required to develop and manufacture high-value parts in...
Morocco Public Transport Gets $200m Backing
Trade Arabia Industry, Logistics & Shipping The World Bank has announced a $200 million programme to improve urban mobility in Morocco, particularly in the quality and management of public transport. The transport programme will focus on cities of over 100,000...
Morocco Planning Series Of Key Road Upgrades
World Highways Morocco is planning to upgrade and widen several of its major road links during 2016. The aim of the works will be to boost capacity as well as to improve stretches of road that suffer from regular flooding or which have an unacceptably high rate of...
Is Algeria Really Spring Cleaning Its ‘Deep State’?
The conversation UK Photo: Reuters/Ramzi Boudina The trial was fast and efficient: after only four hours, Algeria’s notorious former counter-terrorism chief Abdelkader Ait-Ouarabi, better known as General Hassan, was unceremoniously sentenced to five years in prison....
Morocco Jails 11 For ‘Terror’ Offences
Al Arabiya AFP (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar) A court has sentenced 11 Moroccans to prison terms ranging from two to seven years for their involvement in “cases related to terrorism”, the official Moroccan news agency MAP reported Friday. The 11, convicted on Thursday,...