Bakkoury's Noor PV II solar project fails to electrify candidates

RMA Capital International changes chairman 

The resignation of the Moroccan company's chairman Zouheir Bensaid in February has prompted its owner, RMA, to replace him in a number of positions he held in its top management.

Benjelloun heir buries army drone project 

As banking magnate Othman Benjelloun settles his estate succession plan, his son Kamal Benjelloun discreetly liquidated a firm through which he was developing a surveillance drone for civilian and military use.

• KENYA - Solomon Kuria, the link between Kenyatta and Odinga.

• SOUTH AFRICA - Nonceba Mhlauli, President Ramaphosa's youth champion
  

• CONGO - Steven Moussala, Prime Minister Anatole Makosso's Franco-Congolese sherpa

• GUINEA - Mohamed Lamine Solano, Conakry's voice in Washington.

• MOROCCO - Omar Chraibi, the man behind Voltalia's solar victory.

France's Voltalia takes the lead on Masen's troubled Noor PV II solar programme  Free

The French company, which belongs to the Mulliez family empire, is to build the two biggest photovoltaic power plants in the Noor PV II programme which renewable energy agency Masen has been battling to get under way.

Philip Jenkins and AMEA's GreenPower set to supply Tangier 

A 30MW photovoltaic power plant that will soon supply the northern city is the work of Philip Jenkins, an American friend of Mohamed el-Alaoui, King Mohammed VI's chamberlain. But the project's technical, legal and financial aspects were handled by Emirati firm AMEA Power.

A year into sluggish probe, Masen still in the pitlane 

Aziz Akhannouch's government has yet to jump start the state's sustainable energy agency, even though it's leading some of the kingdom's biggest renewable projects.

AMEA and Sinohydro bring forgotten Zina solar plant back to life 

Having already bought a 90% stake in the project from its original developer Cose banada's Windiga, UAE-based AMEA Power has awarded the construction of this 26.6MW solar power plant to China's Sinohydro, which has taken over from France's Bouygues.

In Dakhla, Akhannouch, Benjelloun and Windvision are powering a secret wind turbine project 

Shortly before becoming prime minister, Aziz Akhannouch launched a major wind power project in Dakhla, Western Sahara. To create this 200MW wind farm, his company Green of Africa, co-owned with the banker Othman Benjelloun, has embarked on an ambitious project with Belgian-Dutch company Windvision.

Troubled Noor PV II solar project lands on new PM's desk 

The 400-MW solar farm project, backed by the Masen sustainable energy agency, is at the heart of a muted row between the agency and the energy ministry. The situation will have to be resolved quickly by the new prime minister Aziz Akhannouch, who is himself involved via his company Green of Africa.

EDF's Noor Midelt solar plant still shrouded in clouds 

The ONEE has still not signed the power purchase agreements needed to launch the vast solar power park that EDF Renouvelables has been hired to build for Morocco's sustainable energy agency Masen. Several executives of the French group in charge of the file recently left the firm.

Bidders not lighting up over Masen's 400 MW photovoltaic power stations 

After the costly concentrated solar power station in Ouarzazate, which led to a legal investigation into CEO Mustapha Bakkoury, the Masen solar power agency has moved onto photovoltaic solar panels. But candidates for Noor PV II are not convinced.