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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WELL-FINANCED international programme to remove stocks of obsolete pesticides from Africa has been launched, protecting communities from persistent organic pollutants. The first phase of the Africa Stockpiles Programme (ASP-P1) has now been approved by the World Bank, the Global Environment Facility (GEF), and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has negotiated open skies deals with Romania, Macedonia, Morocco, Albania and Bosnia & Herzegovina, which will enable their airlines to freely offer services to European Union (EU) airports, including cabotage. EU carriers would have similar rights in these four countries’ national territories.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA’S competitors in the race to exploit this year’s abolition of clothing and textile import quotas have been holding their own in sales to the European Union (EU), new trade figures show. Released by the European Commission, the statistics illustrate how China has – as expected – grown EU exports sharply: from January to May, it sold Euro 7.3 billion’s worth of clothing and textile products, up from Euro 5.4 billion the previous year.…

BY MARK ROWE AND PAUL COCHRANE

INTRODUCTION

JUST as chocolate sells well in cold countries, so do soft drinks flourish in hot countries, which would suggest that North Africa and the Levant presents an inviting face to the international drinks market.…

BY LIZ HALL, in Alicante

SINCE March 2005, Operation White Whale, an extensive international anti-money-laundering operation spearheaded by the Spain’s National Police (the Policia Nacional), has produced the arrest of 57 people and the laundering of at least Euro 250 million euros obtained through illegal drug trafficking, according to Spain’s Interior Ministry (Ministerio del Interior).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE OFFICE International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation, has reported an outbreak of Bonamia Ostreae amongst 580 oysters in Morocco. The OIE said that the oysters were destroyed at Khnifiss lagoon, Laayoune province, in the contested Western Sahara region.…

Keith Nuthall
INTERNATIONAL tourist travel has rebounded strongly this year from its September 11-attacks induced torpor, the World Tourism Organisation has claimed. Between January and August 2004, the number of international tourist arrivals grew 12% compared to the same months in 2003, said the UN agency.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE OFFICE International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation, has reported more than 1,000 cases of bluetongue disease amongst sheep in Morocco, with 13,000 animals being susceptible within 142 outbreaks across the country. This mirrors the recent cases in southern Spain that have led to European Union (EU) export controls.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has extended to Morocco 60.4% definitive anti-dumping duties imposed in 1999 on imports into the EU of steel ropes and cables manufactured in China, because of concerns about tariff evasion. The European Commission claims that Chinese steel ropes and cables are being diverted to Morocco, then re-exported to the EU, evading the duties.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A MORROCAN-French-Austrian consortium has won a contract in what the International Finance Corporation says is the first private-public-partnership irrigation project. The group building the US$85 million Guerdane scheme’s dam and water channels will be led by Morocco’s Omnium Nord-Africain (ONA).…