Tag: Sweden

Europe’s Nordic countries to cooperate on immigration policy, deportation flights

November 2, 2023

Ministers of justice of Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway and Iceland have signed an agreement to cooperate more closely to create a more effective system for ... Read More

Morocco: King Mohammed VI Receives Several Foreign Ambassadors

October 4, 2023

King Mohammed VI received, on Wednesday at the Royal Palace in Rabat, several foreign ambassadors who came to hand over, to the Sovereign, their credentials ... Read More

Kenyan and Ghanian activists among 2023 ‘Alternative Nobel’ prize laureates

September 29, 2023

Sweden’s Right Livelihood Award, known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize”, has in 2023 honored work of two women activists from Africa to provide safer abortion ... Read More

Swedish oil firm executives go on trial over war crimes in South Sudan

September 6, 2023

Two former executives at a Swedish oil company Lundin Oil are going on trial on Tuesday (5 September), with both defendants accused of complicity in ... Read More

Quran Burning: UN Adopts Resolution Proposed by Morocco against Hate Speech

July 26, 2023

Quran Burning: UN adopts Morocco-proposed resolution against hate speech The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution introduced by Morocco to counter hate speech and ... Read More

Morocco recalls its ambassador to Stockholm, summons Sweden’s Chargé d’Affaires in Rabat over burning of the Quran, an offensive and irresponsible act

June 29, 2023

On the high instructions of King Mohammed VI, Commander of the Faithful, the Chargé d'Affaires of Sweden in Rabat was summoned on Wednesday to the ... Read More

Sweden’s SKF Invests $4.9 Mln in Factory in Morocco

May 22, 2023

SKF, the world's biggest bearings maker, announced on Monday a $4.9 million investment earmarked for building a manufacturing site in Tangier in Morocco. The Swedish ... Read More

United States begins to evacuate its embassy in Addis Ababa

November 8, 2021

The United States ordered Saturday the departure of its non-essential personnel from its embassy in Ethiopia, where fighting has redoubled this week in the north ... Read More

Ex-Algerian FM named board member of Swedish SIPRI

April 24, 2020

Veteran Algerian diplomat Ramtane Lamamra, whom the U.S block to become UN Special Envoy in Libya, has been appointed board member of Swedish state-founded Stockholm ... Read More

UN: Morocco Gets Top-Notch Rating for its Anti-Torture Law

December 27, 2019

Morocco has been awarded 'A' rating by the UN Human Rights Committee for adopting the law on the national mechanism for the prevention of torture, ... Read More