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Ya Biladi
10-05-2025
- Politics
- Ya Biladi
Mauritania : Ould El Ghazouani receives the Speaker of Morocco's Lower House
Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani met with the Speaker of the Moroccan House of Representatives, Rachid Talbi Alami, on Friday, May 9, in Nouakchott. Following the meeting, the Moroccan official said the discussion covered several important issues, according to the Mauritanian Information Agency (AMI). Also present at the meeting were Mohamed Ould Bemba Meguett, Speaker of the Mauritanian National Assembly; Nani Ould Chrougha, Minister in charge of the Presidency of the Republic; and Hamid Chebar, Morocco's Ambassador to Nouakchott. This audience granted to Rachid Talbi Alami took place on the sidelines of the first Morocco-Mauritania Economic Parliamentary Forum, held in Nouakchott on May 9 and 10. Initially announced in 2022 but postponed several times, the event reflects the revitalized bilateral ties between Morocco and Mauritania, following the December 20, 2024 meeting in Casablanca between King Mohammed VI and President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani.
Ya Biladi
10-05-2025
- Business
- Ya Biladi
After the Morocco-Mauritania Economic Forum, Algerian investors expected in Nouakchott
On the very day the first Morocco-Mauritania Economic Parliamentary Forum opened—Thursday, May 9, in Nouakchott—Algeria scheduled a strategic meeting of its own. The newly appointed Algerian ambassador met with Mohamed Zein El Abidine Cheikh Ahmed, president of the Mauritanian Employers' Union. According to the official news agency AMI, the talks focused on «ongoing preparations for the Annual Exhibition of Algerian Products in Nouakchott, scheduled from May 22 to 28», as well as an upcoming visit by a delegation of Algerian businesspeople expected at the end of June. The meeting also served to explore «priority economic sectors and opportunities available to Algerian investors, along with the incentives and benefits provided under the new investment code», the same source added. Algiers is keeping a close eye on the growing rapprochement between Rabat and Nouakchott—particularly in the economic sphere. Morocco and Mauritania are currently working to revise the bilateral trade agreement signed in 1986. Discussions on this revision took place on the sidelines of Moroccan Trade Week, led by a joint technical committee chaired by Mauritania's Minister of Commerce and Tourism, Zeinebou Mint Ahmednah, and Morocco's Secretary of State for Foreign Trade, Omar Hjira.
