Mauritanians are heading to polls this weekend to elect a new president in what is expected to be the West African country’s first peaceful transfer of power since independence from France in 1960. In the capital Nouakchott, where the desert’s vast expanses wash into the capital, tensions are growing after a campaign marred by violence. […]
Morocco ranks as the first African fisheries producer and the 13th globally, the UN FAO said in a recent report. China topped the ranking followed by Indonesia, the US, Russia, Peru, India and Japan, shows the report dubbed The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture. Morocco and China remain the largest exporters of Octopus, the […]
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has posthumously awarded the Dag Hammarskjöld Medal to 1st Corporal Karim Temara, a member of the Moroccan Royal Armed Forces, during a ceremony held lately at UN Headquarters in New York. Temara died in 2024 while serving with the UN Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO). The […]
