By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Lebrief
Automotive trade between Morocco and Spain reached €1.77 billion between January and August 2026, up 10.2% year on year. These provisional figures come from DataComex, the official foreign trade database of Spain’s Ministry of the Economy, LeBrief reports.
Morocco’s trade with Europe reached 773.1 billion dirhams in 2025, up 2.4% year on year, according to data from the Exchange Office. Its annual report on foreign trade also highlights how trade with Asia and the Americas is widening Morocco’s deficits, while its surplus with Africa is declining.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Source: Aujourd’hui le Maroc ·
Agricultural export revenues reached $4.609 billion in 2025, compared with an average of $2.5 billion over the previous decade, while the country still imports $800 million worth of vegetable oil. Minister Frank Tumwebaze presented the figures to Parliament, reports Daily Monitor.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Source: Daily Monitor ·
The laboratory of the Rabat-Salé-Kénitra Regional Multiservices Company has obtained Moroccan NM ISO/IEC 17025:2018 accreditation for water quality control. Between January and August 2026, it analysed 6,768 samples and carried out 167,689 chlorine tests, according to data provided by the company to Le Matin.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Source: Le Matin ·
The price of a quintal of flour in Libya fell from 380 to less than 325 dinars through direct sales from mills to bakeries, a decrease of more than 14.5%. Libya’s Economy Ministry linked the change to the replenishment of soft-wheat stocks, Libya Herald reports, although it found no fall in bread prices in Tripoli.
🇱🇾 Libya · Source: Libya Herald ·
Nasreddine Nabi appointed Wydad coach for one seasonWydad Casablanca have appointed Nasreddine Nabi as head coach of their first team for one season, replacing Portuguese coach Paulo Sérgio Brito. The Moroccan club officially announced the appointment on 23 October in a statement published on its official social media accounts.
Renewables reach 10% of Tunisia’s electricityRenewables’ share of Tunisia’s electricity production rose from about 2% in 2020 to nearly 10% in 2026. Tunisia still covers 65% to 70% of its gas consumption through Algeria, while the transit contract expires in 2027, according to Sami Ben Rejeb, quoted by Tunisiaonlinenews.The week in Africa
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