Morocco debt at nearly $20 billion Morocco's public foreign debt stood at $19.8 billion at the end of the third quarter of 2010, up from $19.4 billion at the end of 2009 and at its highest since at least 2005, the finance ministry said on Friday. Morocco plans to disburse $2.1 billion to service foreign debt in 2011, $2.2 billion in 2012, about $2 billion annually in 2013 and 2014, $1.9 billion in 2015, $1.8 billion in 2016 and $2.3 billion in 2017, the data published by the ministry showed. Algeria says in investment talks with Volkswagen Germany's Volkswagen (VOWG.DE: Quote) is in talks to invest in Algeria, the second European carmaker to show interest in the north African country, an Algerian minister said on Sunday. “Volkswagen is very insistent to come. We have had interesting preliminary discussions with this group,” Industry and Investment Promotion Minister Mohamed Benmeradi told a conference in Algiers. Palestinian leader to visit Tunisia Monday Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is to embark an official visit to Tunisia on Monday at the invitation of his Tunisian counterpart, Kuwait News Agency has reported. During his two-day stay in Tunis, Abbas is expected to meet Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali on the latest Palestinian developments, the Tunisian presidency said in a release. The visit is part of the Palestinian leader's efforts to rally up regional and international support for a Palestinian state on the pre-1967 border. Turkey's TPAO makes oil find in Libya A subsidiary of Turkey's TPAO has discovered oil at a well on a Libyan concession it operates, Libya's state oil company NOC said on Sunday. Turkish Petroleum Overseas Company (TPOC), a wholly owned TPAO subsidiary, made the discovery on the area 147 concession, which it was awarded in 2005, NOC said on its website. Tests showed an oil flow rate of 685 barrels per day (bpd), it said. Bashir's vision for Sudan inconsistent, says opposition Opposition leaders voice reject Bashir's call for a more inclusive government and call for his government to step down before war returns to Sudan. In a speech marking Sudan's Independence Day, President Omar Al-Bashir called on opposition parties to form a wider base government to expand participation and close ranks in the North. His words came on the heels of earlier statements by himself and leaders in his party refusing to form a nationalist government. BM
