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"Morocco no longer accepts the Spanish position on Western Sahara”

"Morocco no longer accepts the Spanish position on Western Sahara”
06/15/2021 - Interview by Frédéric Dubessy | Society / Institutions
SPAIN/MOROCCO. Head of the Geopolitics and Global Security Department at CIDOB, Spain's oldest international relations centre, Eduard Soler is its Mena referent. In an exclusive interview granted to econostrum.info on the occasion of his speech to the members of the Euromed-IHEDN association, he examines the love/hate relationship between Spain and Morocco.
Africa, Algeria, Algiers, Barcelona, Ceuta, China, Cidob, diplomacy of the Kings, Eduard Soler, Euromed-IHEDN, Europe, European Union (EU), France, Islet Leïla, Islet Persil, Madrid, Mediterranean, Melilla, MENA, Morocco, Polisario, Rabat, Russia, Spain, Spain's Mediterranean policy, United States, Western Sahara

Libya's economic outlook: Too many clouds block the horizon of a diversification

Libya's economic outlook: Too many clouds block the horizon of a diversification
04/20/2021 - Frédéric Dubessy | Society / Institutions
LIBYA. Libya must recover from ten years of internal conflict and tackle not only its reconstruction, but the diversification of its economy. However, a prerequisite for this is the establishment of a genuine state and administration.
Africa, agribusiness, agriculture, al-Qouwea, Alain Chouet, Algiers, Barah Mikaïl, Bernard Valero, CIA, Corsica, Cyrenaica, Cyrene, economy, Egypt, Eugène Antoniotti, Europe, Gaddafi, GDP Libya, Great artificial river, Henry Marty-Gauquier, Jean-François Coustillière, JFC Analysis Group, kasar, Libya, Libyan economic diversification, libyan economy, Marseille, Mecca, Mediterranean, Michel Vinciguerra, Morocco, Nubia Basin, Old city, Stractegia, Sudan, Taleb Rifai, tourism, Tripoli, Tunis, Unesco, World factbook, World Tourism Organisation, WTO

"Project leaders in the South of the Mediterranean have become aware of the opportunity to finance themselves via crowdfunding platforms"

"Project leaders in the South of the Mediterranean have become aware of the opportunity to finance themselves via crowdfunding platforms"
04/19/2021 - Frédéric Dubessy | Services
MEDITERRANEAN. Michel Kaluszynski, Director of Participatory Finance Africa Mediterranean (FPAM), gives an initial assessment of participatory finance in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria.
Africa, Africa-Mediterranean participatory finance, Algeria, Anima Investment Network, Cha9a9a, Chriky, Cofundy, Cosob, Cotizi, crowdfunding, Dakar, Defismed, Diafrikinvest, diaspora, Europe, FPAM, Marseille, Mediterranean, Michel Kaluszynski, Ninvesti, Senegal, Southern Mediterranean Countries (SMC), Tunis, Wuluj

Samir Abdelkrim: "Digital has made Emerging Valley even more connected, denser and more essential for Africa-Europe innovation ecosystems"

Samir Abdelkrim: "Digital has made Emerging Valley even more connected, denser and more essential for Africa-Europe innovation ecosystems"
04/09/2021 - Frédéric Dubessy | Services
MEDITERRANEAN. Samir Abdelkrim organised the fourth edition of Emerging Valley in Marseille on 7 and 8 April 2021, which was broadcast online because of Covid-19. He explains the usefulness of this link between Europe, the Mediterranean and Africa for start-ups and innovation.
AFD Agence Française de Développement, Africa, Algeria, biodiversity, BootCamp, BootCamp des deux rives, Casablanca, digital economy, Dimed, Délégation interministérielle à la Méditerranée, Egypt, Emerging Mediterranean, Emerging Valley, Marseille, Mauritania, Mediterranean, North Africa, Partech Africa, Samir Abdelkrim, SIBC, Social Inclusive Business Camp, Société générale, Sommet des deux rives, Southern Mediterranean Countries (SMC), start-up, Tech for Good, Tunisia

Christian Graeff: "The has-beens are now out of the game in Libya"

Christian Graeff: "The has-beens are now out of the game in Libya"
04/09/2021 - Interview by Frédéric Dubessy | Society / Institutions
LIBYA. In an exclusive interview granted to econostrum.info, Christian Graeff, French ambassador to Libya from 1982 to 1985, gives a less than optimistic assessment of the future of this country torn apart by its divisions for ten years. The ninety-seven year old diplomat however gives the keys to avoid a "Syrianization" of Libya.
Africa, Beirut, Benghazi, Berkane, Christian Graeff, Cyrenaica, Dbeibah, Fayez al-Sarraj, Fezzan, Gamal Abd El Nasser, Geneva, Italy, Joe Biden, Khalifa Haftar, Libya, Mediterranean, Mitterrand, Muammar Gaddafi, Roland Dumas, Russia, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, Spain, Syria, Tripolitania, Turkey, United Nations, United States

Anima and Provence Promotion join forces to attract southern Mediterranean start-ups to Provence

Anima and Provence Promotion join forces to attract southern Mediterranean start-ups to Provence
03/17/2021 - Eric Apim | Services
MEDITERRANEAN. Anima Investment Network and Provence Promotion sign a partnership agreement to accompany start-ups in their establishment in the Bouches-du-Rhône.
Africa, Algeria, Anima Investment Network, cooperation, Cross landing Mediterranean, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Mediterranean, Metropole Aix-Marseille-Provence, Middle East, Morocco, North Africa, Palestine, Pays d'Arles, Provence Promotion, Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries (SEMC), Southern Mediterranean Countries (SMC), start-ups, The Next Society, Tunisia

Three Mediterranean countries will need external food aid in 2021

Three Mediterranean countries will need external food aid in 2021
03/08/2021 - Eric Apim | Environment
MEDITERRANEAN. The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) lists forty-five countries that will need external food aid in 2021. Three of them are in the Mediterranean. version française
Africa, coronavirus crisis, ESCWA, Eswatini, European Union (EU), FAO, food deficit, food security, Lebanon, Libya, Mediterranean, North Africa, Syria, United Nations, wheat

Turkey will be the largest sovereign issuer of commercial debt in 2021 in the EMEA region

Turkey will be the largest sovereign issuer of commercial debt in 2021 in the EMEA region
03/02/2021 - Eric Apim | Society / Institutions
EMEA. S&P Global Ratings estimates that global government borrowing is expected to be $12.6 trillion in 2021. version française
Africa, BCE, commercial debt, coronavirus crisis, Covid-19, debt, economic and financial crisis, economy, Egypt, Emea, Euro zone, Europe, financial markets, loan, Middle East, rating agency, Russia, S&P, Turkey

UNDP seeks to strengthen social protection for workers in the informal economy

UNDP seeks to strengthen social protection for workers in the informal economy
02/10/2021 - Eric Apim | Society / Institutions
AFRICA. In a report produced in collaboration with the ILO, the United Nations Development Programme advocates strengthening social protection for workers in the informal economy on the African continent. version française
Africa, Ahmini, Ahunna Eziakonwa, Kenya, Rwanda, sustainable development, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, UNDP, Zambia

World tourism is not expected to regain its cruising altitude before 2023

World tourism is not expected to regain its cruising altitude before 2023
01/29/2021 - Eric Apim | Services
WORLD. According to a survey carried out in January 2021 by the World Tourism Organisation (WTO) among professionals, "it will take two and a half to four years for international tourism to return to 2019 levels".
Africa, coronavirus and tourism, coronavirus crisis, Covid-19, Europe, Middle East, tourism, UNWTO, World Tourism Organisation, Zurab Pololikashvili

The French-speaking population is growing in the world... thanks to Africa

The French-speaking population is growing in the world... thanks to Africa
01/12/2021 - Eric Apim | Society / Institutions
WORLD. In progression of 2.3% over one year, today the total population of the French-speaking world would amount to 524 million inhabitants. That is more than the population of the European Union.
Abidjan, Africa, Algeria, Algiers, Casablanca, CEMAC, Centre d'étude et de réflexion sur le monde francophone, CERMF, demography, DRC, France, French-speaking population, French-speaking world, Kinshasa, Lebanon, Montreal, Morocco, Ouagadougou, Paris, Population Reference Bureau, Tunisia, UEMOA, United Nations, world, Yaoundé

Diaspora a springboard for French strategic partnership policy in Africa

Diaspora a springboard for French strategic partnership policy in Africa
12/17/2020 | Talent for a new economy
Supported by the European Union, French Development Agency (AFD), the German Agency for International Cooperation and the Anima Investment Network, the Meet Africa II programme provides an additional tool for French policy on development aid to support entrepreneurship in Africa, a policy that focuses on the diaspora.
Version française
AFD Agence Française de Développement, Africa, african diaspora, Anima Investment Network, Bridge Fund by Digital Africa, Choose Africa, cooperation, diaspora, Digital Africa, digital economy, Emmanuel Macron, Emmanuel Noutary, European Union (EU), Expertise France, France, Jérémie Pellet, Meet Africa, Meet Africa II, Proparco, talent for a new economy

Ceuta and Melilla, barometers of relations between Morocco and Spain

Ceuta and Melilla, barometers of relations between Morocco and Spain
12/09/2020 - Frédéric Dubessy | Society / Institutions
The two confetti of Ceuta and Melilla represent heavy stakes - economic, social and geopolitical at the same time - on the relations between Morocco and Spain. These former outposts, still free ports, still enjoy privileges threatened by Moroccan wishes. MOROCCO / SPAIN. They deploy the only land...
Africa, Agrupaciones de interés Económico, AIE, Alberto Asarta, Alcántara, Brexit, Canaries, Ciudad autonoma, Ciudadanos, Common agricultural policy, conflicts, economy of Ceuta, economy of Melilla, Eduardo de Castro Gonzáles, El Perejil, ERC, Europe, European Union (EU), Feader, Feaga, Felipe VI, Frontex, Fse, Gibraltar, Hassan II, Impuesto sobre la Producción, IPSI, Joan Josep Nuet, Juan Jesús Vivas, los Servicios y las Importaciones, Madrid, Maria Dolores Rodriguez Mejias, Maroc, Marta Martin, Miliya, Mlilt, Mohammed VI, Nabyl Lakhdar, PAC, PE, Pedro Sanchez, Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, Popular Party, PSOE, Rabat, Sebta, Spain, Uniones Temporales de Empresas, UTE, Vox, Yves Zurlo

Marseille will host Tech Emerging Mediterranean while waiting for the Emerging Valley summit to be held in April 2021

Marseille will host Tech Emerging Mediterranean while waiting for the Emerging Valley summit to be held in April 2021
10/20/2020 - Frédéric Dubessy | Services
MEDITERRANEAN. The fourth edition of Emerging Valley is postponed to 7 and 8 April 2021 while a Tech For Good event in the Mediterranean is added to the programme. version française
Africa, Algeria, Brighter Investment, Burkina-Faso, Covid-19, Emerging Valley, Europe, France, Ghana, Greentiska, innovation, Kooga Niger, Madagascar, Marseille, Maïa Africa, Mediterranean, Morocco, Natal Cares, Nigeria, Palais du Pharo, positive innovation, Samir Abdelkrim, Sciencia, SIBC, South Africa, Tech for good en Méditerranée, Tunisia

World Bank calls for coordinated integration in the Mena region

World Bank calls for coordinated integration in the Mena region
10/19/2020 - Frédéric Dubessy | Society / Institutions
MENA. The World Bank is alarmed about the economies of the Middle East and North Africa region being doubly hit by the coronavirus and falling oil prices. A report calls for a new framework for global trade integration in the region. version française
Africa, Algeria, Blanca Moreno-Dodson, Centre for Mediterranean Integration, CMI, Covid-19, Egypt, Ferid Belhaj, Gaza, Ha Nguyen, Jordan, Lebanon, Mediterranean, MENA, Middle East, Morocco, OECD, regional integration, Trade Together: Towards a New Beginning for Middle East and North Africa Integration in the Post-Covid Era, Tunisia, Washington, West Bank, World Bank

Diafrikinvest – The diaspora investing in Africa

Diafrikinvest – The diaspora investing in Africa
10/02/2020 | Advertorial
Over a period of 36 months, 136 Moroccan, Tunisian and Senegalese entrepreneurs have benefitted from the European Diafrikinvest programme. Coordinated by the ANIMA Investment Network, the programme was aimed at mobilizing skills and developing productive investment from within the three countries’...
AFD Agence Française de Développement, Africa, Afrikwity, Anima Investment Network, Caisse des dépôts et consignations, CJD Senegal, Conect, Diafrikinvest, European Union (EU), Morocco, Senegal, StartUp Morocco, Tunisia

According to UNCTAD, the fight against financial flows in Africa could save $89 billion a year

According to UNCTAD, the fight against financial flows in Africa could save $89 billion a year
09/29/2020 - Frédéric Dubessy | Society / Institutions
AFRICA. According to the latest UNCTAD report on development in Africa, the fight against illicit financial flows in the continent could generate new funds to respond to the Covid-19 crisis and foster its economic resilience. version française

Africa, capital flight, coronavirus crisis, Covid-19, development in Africa, economic and financial crisis, financial markets, GDP, illicit financial flows, Mukhisa Kituyi, UNCTAD

Tunisian processed cheese manufacturer Land'Or finances the strengthening of its production capacity

Tunisian processed cheese manufacturer Land'Or finances the strengthening of its production capacity
09/02/2020 - Frédéric Dubessy | Industry
TUNISIA / MOROCCO. the processed cheese manufacturer Land'Or obtains nearly 11 M€ to increase the production capacity of its Tunisian and Moroccan plants.
Africa, Africinvest, agri-food industry, Blue Ribbon, cheese, EBRD European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Hatem Denguezli, IAA, Kenitra, Land'Or, Maghreb, Maghreb Private Equity fund, Morocco, Rabat, Tunisia

Corinne Brunon-Meunier appointed Director General of the IRD

Corinne Brunon-Meunier appointed Director General of the IRD
03/04/2020 - Frédéric Dubessy | People
FRANCE. Valérie Verdier, President of the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), has appointed Corinne Brunon-Meunier as Director General of this French public institution.
Africa, Corinne Brunon-Meunier, Croatia, France, IRD Development Research Institute, MEAE, research, Valérie Verdier

"Giving more power to women influences economic development"

"Giving more power to women influences economic development"
12/20/2019 - Frédéric Dubessy | Socio-economic assessments
As part of the Emerging Valley summit, Femise and Institut de la Méditerranée highlighted several initiatives to strengthen the place of women in the economies of the Mediterranean basin. Version française
17 Asset Management, A'Laa Chbaro, Africa, Aix-en-Provence, AltaFemina, Ammar Nada, Change Makers, Chiraz Karoui, Constantin Tsakas, EIB European Investment Bank, Emerging Valley, Femise, Gaza, gender equality, Hajar Khamlichi, IEB, Impact the world, Institut de la Méditerranée, Jordan, Karine Moukkadem, Landmark hotel Continental, Layla Al-Qasim, Mediterranean, Mediterranean Youth Climate Network, MENA, Morocco, MYCN, Patricia Augier, Samah Ben Dhia, Sunbox, Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), women

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