Morocco EU- First meeting between New Foreign affairs Commissioner Josep Borell & Nasser Bourita

US military games in Sahel bring together Morocco, Algeria

The Moroccan and Algerian armies will both take part at the US-led Flintlock 2019 military games in Burkina Faso and Mauritania from February 18 to March 1, 2019. The two North African rivals have closed borders since 1994 with Algeria backing a separatist front that waged a war against Morocco until 1991. More than 2,000 […]

Mali militarize police, civil protection to protect recovered jihadist-held areas

The Malian government will militarize the national police and civil protection in a move to defend areas reconquered from terrorists, a cabinet statement said. “This militarization will make it possible to deploy the two units in the areas reconquered by the army in order to ensure the security of the population and their property and […]

Morocco moves further up in doing business index

Morocco improved its ranking jumping 7 spots in the World Bank’s 2020 Doing Business report to take the 53rd place amid 190 countries. According to the report, Morocco is the country offering the best business climate in North Africa ahead of Tunisia (78th), Egypt, Mauritania and Libya. Morocco’s closest neighbor, oil-rich Algeria, continued to lag […]