Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles

Morocco considers buying Brazil’s Embraer’s KC-390 transport aircraft

Morocco is moving forward with a major modernization of its Royal Air Force (FRA), with plans to acquire Embraer’s KC-390 Millennium aircraft, according to defense outlet Military Africa. The procurement is part of a broader strategy to gradually replace the FRA’s aging fleet of 14 C-130H Hercules transport aircraft and KC-130H aerial refueling tankers. If […]

Skhirate Agreement Remains the Only Document of Reference: Chairman of Libyan High Council of State

Moroccan foreign minister Nasser Bourita stressed the pre-eminence of the UN-brokered agreement in Skhirate in 2015 as a political way out of the Libyan in-fighting. The Skhirate Agreement should serve as a basis for political talks between the Libyan rivals, Bourita told the press after talks in Rabat with head of Libya’s High Council of […]

Istiqlal Withdrawal from Governing Coalition: Does Chabat want to become Caliph instead of the Caliph Benkirane.

The National Council of the Istiqlal Party decided on Saturday to withdraw from the Moroccan coalition government led by the Islamist Party for Justice and development (PJD). The decision was not a surprise to analysts who see in it the normal outcome of the fierce and controversial opposition the Istiqlal Party’s Secretary General Hamid Chabat […]