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Environment Projects in North Africa

  • Global wildlife agency hails Sino-U.S. deal to save elephants

    CHINA, 2015/09/29 A world wildlife conservation organization on Monday lauded agreement reached between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama committing to take swift action to protect elephants. The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) CEO Azzedine Downes said the agreement reached on Friday would play a key role in ending the poaching crisis across the globe. "President Xi has delivered a tremendous victory in the battle to save elephants. China has slammed the door in the face of all those who are profiting from the slaughter of elephants," Downes said in a statement released in Nairobi.
  • INTEGRATED WIND ENERGY GENERATION PROGRAM

    MOROCCO, 2014/02/02 An accelerated economic and social growth due to the implemention for major infrastructures projects and success ouman and sustainable development programs. This unprecedented boom will lead to sustained growth of energy needs. To take up this big challenge and guarantee a responsible development, a new expansion plan was elaborated on the basis of a global and integrated vision. This plan includes a diversifiede l ectri cbouquet , in which the renewable energies occupy a place of choice.
  • Integrated Solar Energy Generation Project

    MOROCCO, 2014/02/02 «Moroccan Agency For Solar Energy», in short “ MASEN “, a Joint Stock Company with a Board of Trustees and a Supervisory Board. The company aims at implementing a program for the development of integrated electricity production projects from solar energy with a minimum total capacity of 2000 MW. Integrated Solar Energy Generation Project This project is a part of the large projects planned as following to the High Royal Orientations related to mobilization of the national renewable resources and the preservation of environment .
  • Floods affect more than half million people in Sudan

    SUDAN, 2013/08/28 The impact of Sudan's floods has widened, the United Nations said on Tuesday, with additional than half a million people affected by this month's inundations. "An estimated 574,540 people have been affected," the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said, citing government figures. The number of flood victims has risen as additional rains come down and new data becomes available.