The Agricultural Development Agency Morocco (ADA) organized the Moroccan participation in the 9th edition of the International Food Trade Fair SIAL Middle East, being held from December 10th to 12th in the United Arab Emirates. The sixth consecutive participation is a part of the implementation of an ambitious strategy by the Agriculture Development Agency Morocco, which acts within the framework of the Green Morocco Plan, to marketing and promoting the local products and development of new markets. This sixth participation testifies he eagerness of the ADA's strategic objective to penetrate Moroccan local products in the Middle East market since 2013. The persistent participation of Morocco at SIAL in previous years rewarded Morocco companies more than twenty contracts valued at 9 million Dirhams.

The UAE and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance are bringing together leaders and the global health community for a two-day meeting on 10th and 11th December to review progress half way through Gavi’s 2016-2020 investment period, examine challenges and refine actions for increasing access to immunisation in the world’s poorest countries to help empower the next generation through health. President Mahamadou Issoufou of the Republic of Niger, and Carlos Agostinho do Rosario, Prime Minister of the Republic of Mozambique, will join 300 representatives from governments, civil society and the private sector to celebrate the 10 million lives Gavi has saved since inception in 2000, to review the progress made since the last replenishment in 2015 and to help shape the future of global health.

COSCO SHIPPING Ports and Abu Dhabi Ports inaugurated CSP Abu Dhabi Terminal at Khalifa Port; positioning Abu Dhabi as the regional hub for COSCO’s global network of 36 ports and further connecting the Emirate to the major trade hubs along the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The deepwater, semi-automated container terminal includes the largest Container Freight Station (CFS) in the Middle East, covering 275,000 square metres. The state-of-the-art facility offers facilities for full and partial bonded container shipments, the full range of container packing services, short-term warehousing for de-consolidated cargo as well as easy connectivity with container terminals in Khalifa Port. The terminal is also the first international greenfield subsidiary of COSCO SHIPPING Ports, a subsidiary of China COSCO Shipping, the largest integrated shipping enterprise in the world. CSP has so far invested AED1.1 billion in capital expenditure on construction and machinery at the terminal.

As oil prices hover near the $50 per barrel level, Saudi Arabia and its willingness to cut oil output has become a catalyst for the broader markets. OPEC is meeting at its headquarters in Vienna, Austria on the 6th and 7th of December. News out of the cartel is that they have reached an agreement to cut production. The goal of the cartel led by the Saudi’s is to balance the market following a deluge of volume which came ahead of the recent US sanctions against Iran.  The Saudi’s are also in the headlines as the US CIA continues to investigate the Saudi Crown Prince and his role in killing the American resident journalist Khashoggi.

Google once experienced a 20% drop in traffic because of an extra .5 seconds in load time. The paradigm has shifted. According to Sharad Agarwal, CEO of Cyber Gear “It is no more about ‘Survival of the Fittest’. It is about ‘Survival of the Fastest’.”
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