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March 24, 2025
The Moroccan government will extend the current soft wheat subsidy program until December 31, the state grain agency ONICL announced on Monday. This means that the country, which is suffering from a drought, will have to import all year. ONICL…
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March 19, 2025
A spokesperson for the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), said that at least six migrants had died and forty were missing following a shipwreck near the Italian island of Lampedusa. Separately, the Italian coastguard confirmed that it intervened…
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March 13, 2025
European traders reported that Tunisia's grain agency purchased approximately 100,000 metric tonnes of soft wheat at an international tender held on Thursday. Traders said that the lowest price for 25,000 tons of 25,000 tonnes sold by Casillo was $268.67 per ton, including cost and freight.
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March 10, 2025
European traders reported on Monday that Algeria's state grain agency OAIC had issued a tender for the international purchase of milling wheat. The deadline to submit price offers for the tender is March 12th, with all offers valid until March 13th.
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March 6, 2025
The decision by Egypt to transfer its wheat import program to an entity affiliated with the military around four months ago was anything but smooth, as local prices have risen and stocks are falling, traders said. Egypt, which is one of the largest wheat importers in the world…
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March 3, 2025
The Egyptian Ministry of International Cooperation announced on Monday that Egypt and the European Commission had signed a soft funding agreement worth 90 million euros ($93.9 millions) to improve food security. The European Investment Bank's…
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February 26, 2025
Marsa Maroc, Morocco’s largest port operator, announced on Wednesday that it had been awarded a contract for the operation of a second terminal in Nador West Med Port on the Mediterranean Coast. The terminal is 18 meters deep and extends along 1440 metres of quay.
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February 24, 2025
European traders reported on Monday that the Algerian state agency ONAB had issued international tenders for up to 240,000 tons of animal feed barley and 35,000 tonnes of feed corn. They said that the deadline for submitting price offers to tenders is on Tuesday, February 25.
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February 23, 2025
Osama Rabi, the chairman of Egypt's Suez Canal Authority, said that since February 1, 47 ships had been diverted from Cape of Good Hope into Suez Canal. Rabie stated earlier this month that the Red Sea Crisis did not create an alternative route for the canal…
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February 13, 2025
European traders reported on Thursday that Algeria's state grain agency OAIC purchased between 360,000 and 400,000 metric tonnes of milling wheat at an international auction which ended on Wednesday. The purchase was less than the estimated amount of 550…
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February 12, 2025
In a press conference broadcast on television in Moscow, Sudanese foreign minister Ali Yusef Sharif announced that an agreement had been reached to create a Russian Naval Base in Sudan. There are no obstacles, we are in total agreement. Sharif…
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February 11, 2025
The state grain agency of Algeria, OAIC, has announced an international tender for the purchase of a nominal 50,000 metric tonnes animal feed barley from origins that are optional. European traders confirmed this on Tuesday. The deadline to submit price offers for the tender is Friday, February 14.
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February 4, 2025
An Egyptian cabinet announcement on Tuesday revealed that Egypt's General Authority for Supply Commodities has signed a $700-million loan agreement with the Islamic Trade Finance Corporation to boost its efforts in food security. The loan is part of the ongoing cooperation between Egypt…
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January 30, 2025
The head of Morocco’s grain trade federation, FNCL, announced on Thursday that the country has halted its imports of feed from Germany due to an outbreak of foot and mouth disease. Omar Yacoubi said that the import ban was imposed on "all non…
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January 28, 2025
Five engineers at the facility said that local protesters stopped the loading of crude oil onto tankers in the ports of Es Sidra and Ras Lanuf, Libya, on Tuesday. In a letter addressed to the state-run National Oil Corporation of the country last week…
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January 27, 2025
France is facing its worst wheat exports for decades due to a rift between Algeria and the European Union, a slump in Chinese demand, as well as a poor harvest. The French farmers who protested in the beginning of this year against falling incomes…
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January 26, 2025
The German NGO Sea Punks reported on Sunday that 17 migrants were rescued from a shipwreck off the coast of the Mediterranean while two children perished. Sea Punks released a press release stating that the rescue occurred in the early morning…
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January 24, 2025
European traders reported on Friday that Algerian state agency ONAB was believed to have purchased between 25,000 and 35,000 metric tonnes of soymeal at an international tender up to 70,000 metric tons on Thursday. The shipment was to arrive by the 25th of February at the latest.
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January 22, 2025
Tanger Med Port in Morocco said Wednesday that it retained its position as the Mediterranean’s leading port, handling 10,24 million containers. This is an increase of 18.8% compared to a year ago. In June, the port reported that it expected…
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January 16, 2025
On Thursday, European traders reported that the Algerian state agency ONAB had issued international tenders for up to 240,00 metric tons animal-feed corn and 35,000 tons feed barley. The deadline to submit price proposals in tenders is this Friday, January 17.
