Mauritania backs Morocco’s atlantic initiative and gas pipeline

Mauritania will work together with Morocco to advance royal projects aiming to boost connectivity including the Atlantic initiative to offer landlocked Sahel states access to the Atlantic and a gas pipeline project that will connect Nigeria to Morocco benefiting 13 west African states. This came in a royal office statement following talks between King Mohammed […]

Terror: Algerian Jailed in Germany for Supporting ISIS

A German court has sentenced an Algerian man to a year and nine months in prison for supporting the Islamic State group and for attempting to recruit and smuggle a would-be jihadist fighter to terror hotbeds in Syria. The Berlin district court said it convicted the 32-year-old, identified only as Fayssal M.B., for supporting a […]

UN: Morocco’s Ambassador Co-leads New Science, Technology and Innovation Coalition for Africa

Morocco’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Omar Hilale, has been appointed co-chair of the new Science, Technology, and Innovation Coalition for Africa (STI). Launched on Tuesday in New York by South Africa as part of Africa Day held on the sidelines of the United Nations ECOSOC’s Science and Technology Forum, the Coalition is also […]