Morocco Blocks Ikea Store In Row Over Swedish Support For Breakaway Republic
The Guardian Reuters Authorities say the store lacked the right permit but sources say Sweden’s plans to recognise an independent republic in Western Sahara is the real reason. Morocco has blocked the opening of an Ikea store in the country’s largest mall, near the...
Morocco Hosts Waste Management Technologies Workshop
Bahrain News Agency Courtesy: ESCWA communications team The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), in partnership with the Economic Commission for Africa’s Sub-regional Office for North Africa (ECA/SRO-NA) and the Moroccan Cleaner...
Enel Green Power To Step Up Activities In Morocco
See Renewables by Mariyana Yaneva Italian renewables developer Enel Green Power SpA (BIT:EGPW) is planning to expand business in Morocco, CEO Francesco Venturini says. “Morocco has been a renewable energy pioneer in North Africa, establishing challenging targets and...
Morocco Arrests Three Over Anti-Gay Assault
Agence France Presse Morocco has arrested three people suspected of beating up a man presumed to be homosexual and attempting to blackmail his family with a video, police said Monday. "A suspect was arrested for assaulting a young man, who was undressed, for his...
UN Should Play Active Role In Fight Against ISIL – Morocco Foreign Ministry
Sputnik International The United Nations (UN) has its role to play in the fight against the Islamic State (ISIL), Permanent Secretary of Morocco’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Nasser Bourita told Sputnik when asked whether he would support an initiative that the...
Solar Energy Becomes A Major Power Player In The Middle East
Eenews.net Daniel Cusick, E&E reporter Where the oil money goes: a concentrated solar array in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, called Shams 1. In a patch of otherwise empty desert 30 miles south of Dubai, the outline of what is expected to become the Middle...
An Excellent Account Of How ISIS Came Into Being
The Economist MOST people saw the Arab spring as a failed democratic revolution. Jihadists viewed the various uprisings very differently. For them, the events in 2011-12 and their turbulent aftermath heralded the advent of the Mahdi, the Muslim messiah, and the great...
Morocco: Blueprint For A Democratic Middle East?
Nationalinterest.org Ahmed Charai U.S. policy makers should encourage the adoption of the Moroccan model to guide Islamist parties towards democracy. Morocco is the only Mediterranean country with an Islamist government and the only Arab country to emerge from the...
ONEE Opens Bids For 75 MW Solar Project In Morocco
See News Renewables by Mariyana Yaneva Moroccan electricity and water utility company (ONEE) on Friday opened the offers filed in the tender it announced for the 75 MW Noor Tafilet solar power project. A total of 49 companies and consortia from 19 countries have taken...
Morocco Denounces Coup Attempt Against Burkinabe Transitional Gov’t
Starafrica.com by: APA Morocco has denounced the coup attempt and the power grab committed against the political transitional institutions in Burkina Faso, the Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation announced here Wednesday. In a press release, the...