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Morocco Bans Plastic Bags in a Major Environment-Friendly Move

Morocco, which will host the 22nd Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP22) next year, has adopted a major green move translating its attachment to the protection of the environment. Six years ago, the North African country banned black plastic bags. Now the Moroccan House of Representatives (Parliament) has […]

Morocco carries out naval exercises with India & Pakistan

Royal Moroccan Navy frigate “Lieutenant Colonel Arrahman” and India’s third Talwar-class frigate “INS Tabar” have conducted last weekend a joint maritime partnership exercise off the Casablanca port. The drill focused on communication procedures, replenishment at sea procedures and naval maneuvers. The exercise concluded with the traditional steam past between the two ships to bid farewell […]

Turkey: PKK to disarm by 21 March, Deputy PM Akdogan

Deputy Prime Minister Yalcin Akdogan has called on the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) to disarm before or on 21 March and has urged imprisoned Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan to renew his demand for disarmament despite acknowledging that the leader’s “role is being undermined by the organization from time to time.” The Turkish government and […]