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The three Maghreb countries are candidates to host the headquarters of the African Medicines Agency

04/13/2022 | Society / Institutions

AFRICA. With the candidature of Tunisia, it is from now on the three Maghreb countries which want to shelter the permanent seat of the future African Agency of Medicines.

Afric'Agora, a place to welcome African companies, will be set up in Marseille in the summer of 2022

03/31/2022 | Services

MEDITERRANEAN / AFRICA. Supported by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Aix-Marseille-Provence and the Africalink network of entrepreneurs, the Afric'Agora project is going to be created in Marseille to welcome African companies and encourage their relations with their French counterparts. Frédéric Ronal, its promoter within the CCIAMP, tells us about it.

Green City Organisation wants to free the Mediterranean of its waste

02/15/2022 | Environment

FRANCE. Green City Organisation wants to deploy throughout the Mediterranean basin its D-Rain system for capturing waste from rainwater networks to retain it before it pollutes the sea.

Albania becomes a member of the UN Security Council

01/03/2022 | Society / Institutions

ALBANIA. Since Saturday 1 January 2022, Albania has joined - together with Brazil, the United Arab Emirates, Gabon and Ghana - the United Nations Security Council as a non-permanent member.

IFC and Proparco finance the expansion of Moroccan Dolidol

12/23/2021 | Industry

MOROCCO. The Moroccan bedding specialist Dolidol signs two loans for a total amount of €20M with the International Finance Corporation and Proparco to support its development in Nigeria and its good environmental practices in Morocco.

Western Sahara issue further divides the Maghreb

11/02/2021 | Society / Institutions

WESTERN SAHARA. While the Minurso mandate has just been extended by one year, Staffan de Mistura starts his new mandate as UN envoy for Western Sahara in the middle of a regional crisis.

Antoine Viallet: "We must base our relations with the African continent on reciprocity"

10/05/2021 | Society / Institutions

AFRICA. Past-president of the Real Estate Club Marseille-Provence, vice-president of the Marseillais de l'Immobilier en Afrique (MIA'S) and member of the Africalink network, Antoine Viallet animated the 14th Real Estate Day under the theme 'Marseille Hub of Africa'. For econostrum.info, he reminds us of the importance of forging strong links with this continent.

France halves the number of visas issued to Maghreb nationals

09/29/2021 | Society / Institutions

FRANCE / MAGHREB. In retaliation to the non-issuance of consular passes allowing the return of their nationals expelled from France, Paris has decided to divide by two the number of visas granted to Algerian and Moroccan nationals and by 30% those granted to Tunisians.

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EBRD appoints two new officials in Morocco and Tunisia

09/02/2021 | People

MOROCCO / TUNISIA. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development announces the appointment of two new managers in the Maghreb, Antoine Sallé de Chou in Casablanca and Nodira Mansurova in Tunis.

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The new Libyan governance: An equation with several unknowns

04/07/2021 | Society / Institutions

LIBYA. Libya has entered a new era since Fayez Al-Sarraj and Khalifa Haftar finally decided to throw in the towel. Their withdrawals have allowed for the emergence of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum and a new interim governance. Part 1/5

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Tunisia launches its first 100% Tunisian satellite designed by Telnet Holding

03/22/2021 | Industry

TUNISIA. The Tunisian company of telecommunication Telnet Holding succeeded in launching Challenger One, the first satellite of the country entirely manufactured locally by young Tunisian engineers.

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The Maghreb countries have the highest rates of women engineers in the world

02/11/2021 | Society / Institutions

MAGHREB. In its latest report on science entitled "The race against time for a more intelligent development", Unesco denounces the low proportion of women engineering graduates in the world.

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The health crisis in the Maghreb impacts the results of the port of Marseille

01/25/2021 | Transport

FRANCE. If the Grand Port Maritime de Marseille-Fos finally resisted well to the sanitary crisis on its goods segment, passenger transport has been hit hard by travel restrictions.

Southern Mediterranean tries to break free from its borders with the EU

11/25/2020 | Society / Institutions

Ten southern countries are eligible for the European Neighbourhood Policy developed by the EU since 2004 under the Barcelona Process. But today it seems that the Mediterranean is no longer a priority for the EU.

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

09/02/2020 | Industry

TUNISIA / MOROCCO. the processed cheese manufacturer Land'Or obtains nearly 11 M€ to increase the production capacity of its Tunisian and Moroccan plants.

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The Port of Marseille maintains its 2020 investments, despite a 15% drop in its traffic

07/09/2020 | Transport

FRANCE. Impacted by the health crisis, the Grand Port Maritime de Marseille will maintain the €57m of investments planned for 2020 and will even add more than €6.5m of commercial measures to revive port activities.

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Air France to open reservations for Maghreb in June

04/29/2020 | Transport

MAGHREB / FRANCE. Air France is preparing to strengthen its domestic routes and is reopening bookings for Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco.

Education Mismatch in North Africa: Determinants and Impact

09/09/2019 | FEMISE reports

Publié en septembre 2019. Rédigé par Moundir Lassassi, Mohamed Ali Marouani. The uprising of 2011 in many Arab countries have highlighted the vulnerability and fragility of their labor markets, characterized by high unemployment rates, especially for young people. The lack of job opportunities for...

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Cooperation with Religious Institutions as a European Policy Tool

05/01/2019 | EUROMESCO reports

May 2019 P. Sasnal (Ed.), S. Altuna, Y. El-Menouar, G. Fahmi The Joint Policy Study takes an institutionalist view of state-religion relations, although religious institutions are defined in a broad sense and encompass both official and unofficial religion.

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Climate security in the sahel and the Mediterranean : local and regional responses

04/01/2019 | EUROMESCO reports

April 2019. Written by Abdelhak Bassou, Aleksandra Chmielewska, Xira Ruiz-Campillo The present study takes into account the broader conception of the Mediterranean. In this sense, it not only deals with the effects of climate change on the countries bordering the Mediterranean, but extends its...

Abdelhak Bassou, Africa, Aleksandra Chmielewska, climate change, ecology environment report, Euromesco, Europe, Maghreb, Mediterranean, Sahel, Xira Ruiz-Campillo