Germany will loan more than 654 million euros ($796 million) for two solar-thermal power projects in Morocco that are among the world’s largest.

At least 31 people died in the southern regions of Morocco on Monday, November 24, after heavy rains caused flash floods, the Interior Ministry said.

RABAT - Seventeen people were killed and dozens missing on Sunday in southern Morocco in flash flood caused by heavy rain, authorities said.

Morocco will let private capital take the lead in developing desalination and irrigation projects as part of a $27 billion plan designed to lessen the stress on its water resources, Minister Charaf

Abengoa SA (ABG/P), the Spanish renewable-energy developer, plans to build an 82 million euro ($112 million) desalination plant in Morocco.

Morocco’s government is appealing to private investors to help finance a 230 billion-dirham ($28 billion) water plan that the North African country hopes will ease stress on its resources.

Morocco has opened a final tender for construction of five wind farms totalling 850 megawatts, worth an estimated $1.7 billion, for which five consortia have been pre-qualified, state-run power uti

Morocco has recruited foreign investors to fund a $9 billion solar power project, even though some European lenders have balked due to the location of some planned plants in the disputed Western Sa