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Morocco, Russia Beef up Strategic Partnership with 11 Cooperation agreements

Morocco and Russia signed 11 cooperation agreements in the fields of customs, agriculture, trade, energy efficiency, renewable energies, nuclear energy as well as military cooperation. The agreements were signed at a Moroccan-Russian working session chaired by Head of the Government Saad Eddine EL Othmani and Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev who paid an official working […]

Morocco’s Royal Navy assists 256 would-be migrants at sea

The Royal Navy coastguards operating in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic have provided assistance to 256 would-be migrants from February 5 to 8. The candidates to illegal emigration, mostly sub-Saharans, included 41 women and 5 children. They were facing difficulties on board makeshift inflatable boats, military sources said. The rescued people received first aid on […]

A woman named Prime Minister in Tunisia, a first in the Arab world

Najla Bouden Romdhane, a former official of the ministry of Higher education, was appointed Wednesday Prime Minister of Tunisia, becoming thus the first woman to hold such a position in the region. Mrs Romdhane, 63-year old geology professor at the National School of Engineers, was tasked to form a new Cabinet more than two months […]