Morocco To Have First Full Islamic Banking Institution By October
Bernama Malaysia Morocco is poised to have its first fully-fledged Islamic banking institution by October this year and is the only North African country rated investment grade seeking to tap the US$1.8 trillion industry. In a statement today, the Finance...
Morocco Oil Refiner Samir Wins Nod For $1.04 Billion Capital Increase
Reuters by Aziz El Yaakoubi Moroccan oil refiner Samir said it has won the backing of its extraordinary general assembly to increase its capital to $1.04 billion. The country's sole oil refiner said that its top stakeholder, Corral Petroleum Holdings, will provide...
Seeds Withdrawn From Arctic ‘Doomsday Vault’ Shipped To Morocco, Lebanon
The Globe and Mail David Keyton AP In the first withdrawal from a “doomsday” seed vault in the Arctic, thousands of seeds that were originally kept in war-stricken Syria have been safely delivered to Morocco and Lebanon, officials said Monday. Gene banks and...
IAEA Visits Morocco To Analyze Future Nuclear Energy Program
Prensa Latina A delegation of experts of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) started a one-week visit to Morocco to study the feasibility of a nuclear energy program in the country. The group of experts, led by the Russian OIEA Deputy Director General...
Morocco Denounces Algeria’s Opposition To Census Of Tindouf Sahrawis
Sahara News by Ali Haidar Morocco vehemently denounced in New York on Thursday Algerian authorities’ refusal to allow the organization of a census of the Tindouf camps populations and blasted the Polisario leaders and their Algerian accomplices for diverting, in a...
Climate Talks: Mind The Emissions Gap
BBC NEWS Science & Environment By Roger Harrabin BBC environment analyst Global experts are meeting in Morocco to assess the adequacy of politicians' pledges to protect the climate. So far, about 150 nations have promised the UN to curb (NB: Not cut) CO2 emissions,...
Gulfsands Unable To Get Extension For Its Fes Agreement Onshore Morocco
Rigzone Rigzone staff Middle East and North Africa-focused independent oil firm Gulfsands Petroleum announced Friday that it has been unable to achieve a further extension to its Fes Petroleum Agreement in Morocco. Gulfsands said that the extension period of the Fes...
Vestas Opens Office In Morocco
SeeNews Renewables by Mariyana Yaneva Danish wind turbine maker Vestas Wind Systems A/S (CPH:VWS) on Thursday opened an office in Morocco. The representation office is based in Casablanca, Morocco's largest city, located in the northwestern part of the country on the...
Morocco Government Sees GDP Growth At 3 Pct In 2016-Budget Draft
Reuters Middle East By Aziz El Yaakoubi EU Wheat Steady As Chicago Bounce Tempers Supply Picture, Paris wheat The Moroccan government sees the country's gross domestic product (GDP) growing by 3 percent in 2016, down from an estimated 5 percent in 2015, a government...
Cybersecurity : Online Attacks On Infrastructure Are Increasing At A Worrying Pace
NYT Bits Mario Wagner By Nicole Perlroth Over the last four years, foreign hackers have stolen source code and blueprints to the oil and water pipelines and power grid of the United States and have infiltrated the Department of Energy’s networks 150 times. So what’s...