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The Arab Fund for Social and Economic Development (AFESD) is expected to sign an agreement with one of the Egyptian banks to finance SMEs with $30 million, Arab Finance reports. The future new funding comes on top of the ongoing Read more
Al Dahra, an agriculture firm based in Abu Dhabi, specializing in the cultivation, production and trading of animal feed and human food commodities is set to launch five new animal feed plants in Eastern Europe as part of its expansion Read more
The Food and Agriculture Organization has warned that food security and nutrition levels in the Near East and North Africa have sharply deteriorated over the last five years, undermining the steady improvement achieved before 2010 when the prevalence of undernourishment, Read more
King Mohammed VI of Morocco chaired Tuesday at the Royal Palace in Casablanca, the first meeting on the giant gas pipeline project that will go up from Nigeria to Morocco via several West African countries. This landmark project, the biggest Read more
Morocco and Senegal have inked several cooperation deals meant to bolster partnership between the two countries in the fields of agriculture, fisheries and other socioeconomic sectors. These cooperation agreements were signed in Dakar Monday and Tuesday under the co-chairmanship of Read more
King Mohammed VI, who started Sunday a historic visit to Tanzania within the frame of a tour in East Africa, had Monday in Dar es Salaam, a private meeting with President John Pombe Magufuli. The two African leaders co-chaired, the Read more
After his successful visit to Rwanda, King Mohammed VI started Sunday an official visit to Tanzania, 2nd leg of an African tour that will lead the Sovereign also to Ethiopia. This important trip to Eastern Africa aims to give a Read more
The new African tour started Tuesday by King Mohammed VI in East Africa opens a new era in the relations of cooperation between Morocco and the countries of this region. This fresh royal tour, the first of its kind, which Read more
Russian authorities could impose a temporary ban on some Egyptian agricultural goods that fail to meet phytosanitary requirements, Russia’s food safety watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor indicated on Tuesday. The Russian institution pointed at Egyptian authorities’ failure to comply with international and phytosanitary Read more
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Center on Global Economic Governance (CGEG) and Morocco’s OCP Policy Center are holding a seminar on “Energy Transition, NDCs, and the Post-COP21” in Marrakech Sept.8-9th. In preparation for COP22 due in Morocco next November, Read more