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Covid to explode the number of poor in Mena countries

Covid to explode the number of poor in Mena countries
12/02/2020 - Gérard Tur | Society / Institutions
MEDITERRANEAN. On the occasion of a round table organised within the framework of the Mediterranean of the Future, Patricia Augier, professor of economics, sounds the alarm about the situation in the countries of the North Africa, Middle East zone.
Aix-Marseille University, Covid, Europe, Gaza, Lebanon, Marseilles, Mediterranean of the Future, Mena country, Middle East, Morocco, North Africa, pandemic, Patricia Augier, poverty

La Méridionale opens a maritime line between Marseille and Tangier Med

La Méridionale opens a maritime line between Marseille and Tangier Med
12/01/2020 - Eric Apim | Transport
FRANCE / MOROCCO. The shipping company La Méridionale will offer, as from Wednesday 2 December 2020, a regular freight and passenger shipping line between Marseille and Tangier Med.
Benoït Dehaye, Eric Brioist, France, Girolata, La Méridionale, maritime links, maritime transport, Marseille, Morocco, Pelagos, Tangier, Tangier Med, transport

Souad Elmallem – Bringing Canada’s aircraft expertise to Morocco

Souad Elmallem – Bringing Canada’s aircraft expertise to Morocco
11/23/2020 - Frédéric Dubessy | Talent for a new economy
A member of the Moroccan diaspora in North America, Souad Elmallem managed to convince her bosses to set up Bombardier’s first African venture in her home country.
Version française
6temik, aeronautics, aerospace cluster, Anima Investment Network, Bombardier, Canada, Casablanca, diaspora, Midparc, Morocco, Nouaceur, Quebec, Souad Elmallem

10 years after the Arab democratic movement, what are the results?

10 years after the Arab democratic movement, what are the results?
11/17/2020 - Henry Marty-Gauquié, member of JFC Conseil | Reflections
Already 10 years ago, on December 17, 2010, the street vendor Mohamed Bouazzizi set himself on fire, triggering the intifada of Sidi Bouzid...
Algeria, Arab Spring, Bahrain, Egypt, Europe, expert opinion, Henry Marty-Gauqié, Jordan, Lebanon, Mediterranean, Mohamed Bouazzizi, Morocco, reflection, Syria, Trump, Tunisia, Turkey, Yemen

AFD and the Sahara and Sahel Observatory sign an agreement to combat water stres

AFD and the Sahara and Sahel Observatory sign an agreement to combat water stres
11/06/2020 - Frédéric Dubessy | Environment
NORTH AFRICA / FRANCE. The Sahara and Sahel Observatory and the French Development Agency are entering into a partnership to implement a regional initiative on "water stress and climate change in North Africa".
AFD, Agence française de développement, Algeria, climate change, Egypt, France, Julie Gonnet, Libya, MedeCC, Mediterranean, Morocco, North Africa, OSS, Sahara, Sahara and Sahel Observatory, Sahel, Tunis, Tunisia, water stress

AFD participates in financing the extension of the Casablanca tramway

AFD participates in financing the extension of the Casablanca tramway
11/04/2020 - Frédéric Dubessy | Transport
MOROCCO / FRANCE. Agence Française de Développement and Casa Transport en Site Aménagé sign a MAD 1.1 billion (€100m) loan agreement for the construction of two new lines of the Casablanca tramway.
AFD, Agence Française de Développement, Alstom, Alstom Citadis, Casa Transport, Casablanca, France, Mihoub Mezouaghi, Morocco, Nabil Belabed, RATP Dev, tramway, urban transport

Unemployment rates are soaring around the Mediterranean

Unemployment rates are soaring around the Mediterranean
11/03/2020 - Gérard Tur | Society / Institutions
MEDITERRANEAN. In the south as in the north, job losses amount to hundreds of thousands in the Mediterranean basin. version française
Algeria, France, Israel, Italy, Mediterranean, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, Unemployment, unemployment rate

UN renews its peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara for another year

UN renews its peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara for another year
11/02/2020 - Frédéric Dubessy | Society / Institutions
MOROCCO. Minurso, in charge of peacekeeping in Western Sahara, will be able to continue its mission until October 2021. version française

Algeria, Christopher Ross, Horst Köhler, Laayoune, Mauritania, Minurso, Morocco, Polisario, SADR, United Nations Security Council, United States, USA, Western Sahara

Several Muslim countries decide to boycott French products

Several Muslim countries decide to boycott French products
10/26/2020 - Frédéric Dubessy | Society / Institutions
MENA / FRANCE. While the tension between Paris and Ankara has risen a notch because of Emmanuel Macron's comments on the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, several Muslim countries are calling for a boycott of French products. version française
Al-Meera, Charlie Hebdo, Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, Emmanuel Macron, France, Gaza, Islamic Cooperation Organisation, Kuwait, Morocco, OIC, Qatar, Rabat, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Samuel Paty, Souq al-Baladi, Turkey, University of Qatar

Covid-19: Residents of all Mediterranean third countries become persona non grata in the EU

Covid-19: Residents of all Mediterranean third countries become persona non grata in the EU
10/23/2020 - Frédéric Dubessy | Society / Institutions
EU / MEDITERRANEAN. The exit of Tunisia, the last Mediterranean third country on the EU list of residents not affected by travel restrictions to the European Union, prohibits non-European Mediterranean nationals from entering the European borders.
Algeria, Andorra, Canada, Covid-19, European Union (EU), Georgia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Norway, San Marino, Schengen area, Serbia, Switzerland, Tunisia, Vatican City.

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, Mena economy, 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

Morocco extends the state of health emergency and organises an airlift to Corsica to harvest clementines

Morocco extends the state of health emergency and organises an airlift to Corsica to harvest clementines
10/09/2020 - Frédéric Dubessy | Society / Institutions
MOROCCO. The Council of the Moroccan Government has decided to extend the state of health emergency declared since March 2020 until 10 November 2020.
Air Arabia Maroc, Air France, Bastia, Casablanca, Corsica, Corsican clementine, Covid-19, Egypt Air, Emirates, Etihad Airways, France, French Office of Immigration and Integration, Johns Hopkins University, Morocco, OFII, passenger health record, PCR test, Pegasus, Poretta, Qatar Airways, Rabat, Royal Air Maroc, seasonal workers, state of health emergency, TAP, Transavia, Tunisair, Turkish Airlines

S&P retains Morocco's rating, but revises its outlook downwards

S&P retains Morocco's rating, but revises its outlook downwards
10/05/2020 - Frédéric Dubessy | Society / Institutions
MOROCCO. Pointing to the serious repercussions of Covid-19 on external and domestic demand, the rating agency Standard and Poor's does not make any comment. version française

Morocco, Morocco economy, rating agency, S&P, Standard and Poor's

Diafrikinvest – The diaspora investing in Africa

Diafrikinvest – The diaspora investing in Africa
10/02/2020 | Publireportage
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, Africa, Afrikwity, ANIMA Investment Network, Caisse des Dépôts, CJD Senegal, CONECT (Tunisia), Diafrikinvest, EU, European Union, Morocco, Senegal, StartUp Morocco, Tunisia

A think tank criticizes the inefficiency and inequality of water management policies in Morocco

A think tank criticizes the inefficiency and inequality of water management policies in Morocco
09/25/2020 - Frédéric Dubessy | Environment
MOROCCO. A note from the Moroccan Institute for policy analysis denounces past and present water management policies in Morocco. It deems them not only unsuited to climate change, taken in a piecemeal fashion in an emergency response to social conflicts, but also very unequal.
agriculture, Amal Ennabih, CESE, Economic, Green Morocco Plan, Institut d'études politiques de Lyon, irrigation, MIPA, Mohammed VI, Morocco, Morrocan institute for policy analysis, Social and Environmental Council Morocco, water, water management, water resources

Libya's head of the National Accord government to step down

Libya's head of the National Accord government to step down
09/17/2020 - Frédéric Dubessy | Society / Institutions
LIBYA. Only days after the announcement of the resignation of the Prime Minister of the parallel government, the head of the Government of National Accord (GNA), Fayez el-Sarraj, also steps down.
ANL, Benghazi, Bouznika, conflict, Fayez el-Sarraj, GNA, Khadafi, Khalifa Haftar, Libya, Libyan National Army, Montreux, Morocco, politics, Skhirat, Switzerland, Tripoli

EDF Renewables launches the construction of the Taza wind farm in Morocco

EDF Renewables launches the construction of the Taza wind farm in Morocco
09/09/2020 - Frédéric Dubessy | Environment
MOROCCO. The consortium made up of the French company EDF Renewables and the Japanese company Mitsui & Co. Ltd. announce the launch of the construction of the first phase of the Taza wind farm in Morocco. Version française
Alstom, Bank of Africa, Bruno Bensasson, EDF Renewables, Japan Bank for international cooperation, Kazumasa Nakai, Masen, Mitsui & CO., Morocco, MUFG Bank, Onee, PPA, renewable energies, SMBC, Taza, Taza wind farm, wind farm

Citing 42% of the country's new cases, the Casablanca agglomeration is isolated from the rest of Morocco

Citing 42% of the country's new cases, the Casablanca agglomeration is isolated from the rest of Morocco
09/07/2020 - Frédéric Dubessy | Society / Institutions
MOROCCO. The inhabitants of the Moroccan economic capital must undergo new restrictive containment measures to slow down the evolution of the Covid-19. version française
Casablanca, confinement, Covid-19, Khalid Ait Taleb, Morocco

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

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