By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Mosaïque FM
The director of the Sidi Abdelhamid desalination plant project in Sousse categorically denies reports circulating in recent days about the construction site. Moncef Ammara rejects the claims being shared about the Tunisian project, although the source does not specify their exact content.
The Africa Rice Centre trained 26 trainers from 13 West African countries in Saint-Louis to produce quality seed. The five-day workshop ended on Friday as part of the REWARD project, according to APS, which cited the organisers.
🇸🇳 Senegal · Source: APS ·
Morocco’s 2027 draft budget provides for 482.4 billion dirhams in ordinary revenue, including 437.4 billion from taxes. Tax revenue would thus account for more than 90% of general budget resources, according to data from the draft published by the Moroccan government on 23 October.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Source: Lebrief ·
Tunisia’s draft 2027 budget provides for 68.9 billion dinars in funding, an increase of 8.4% compared with 2026. The Education Ministry receives the largest allocation, at 9.18 billion dinars, while funding for Industry, Mines and Energy rises by 48.2%, according to the report on the draft budget.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Source: Lapresse ·
Tunisia’s Education Minister Noureddine Nouri has ordered the expansion and renovation of El Wafa secondary school, which has more than 2,500 pupils in Raoued, as well as the creation of an adjacent school. The measures are intended to ease overcrowding and improve school facilities, according to an Education Ministry statement.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Source: Lapresse ·
Tunisia and UK prepare fourth partnership councilTunisia and the United Kingdom want to strengthen cooperation in trade, investment, tourism, agriculture, education and security. Tunisian Secretary of State Mohamed Ben Ayed and British ambassador Roderick Drummond also prepared the fourth session of the Tunisian-British Partnership Council, according to a statement from Tunisia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Morocco’s social priorities in 2027 budget to cost 62 billion dirhamsThe social priorities in Morocco’s draft 2027 finance bill are estimated to cost a total of 62 billion dirhams. Economy Minister Fouzi Lekjaa announced the figure while presenting the budget to both chambers of Parliament, according to LeBrief.The week in Africa
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