EU, Morocco Negotiating New Fisheries Deal

The European Union is negotiating with Morocco a new fisheries agreement that would allow European trawlers back in Moroccan waters in exchange for annual payments. So far, the European and Moroccan delegations held three rounds of talks for a new protocol to the Fisheries Partnership Agreement (FPA) which entered into force on February 28, 2007. […]

Assistant UN SG Hails Morocco’s Contribution for Integration of Landlocked Countries

The UN High-Representative for Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States, Ms. Fekitamoeloa ‘Utoikamanu has praised Morocco’s contribution for the integration of landlocked African countries into regional trade. Speaking in Marrakech at the mid-term review meeting of the African Region of the Vienna Program of Action for Landlocked Developing Countries for […]

DRC unveils new government after month-long impasse

The curtain fell on the new government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo after five months of delay that left the country in political uncertainties.   Internal disagreements on positions in the cabinet delayed the announcement by president Felix Tshisekedi, who won the presidential vote in late 2023.   The announcement of a cabinet […]