Morocco’s national railway operator, ONCF, has strengthened its industrial partnership with South Korea’s Hyundai Rotem company. The two partners signed on Thursday a $487 million railway maintenance deal, building on a major rolling-stock contract sealed last year between the two parties. Under the agreement, Hyundai Rotem and ONCF have agreed to set up a joint […]
Morocco and Sweden are mending their strained relations after a row over a failed attempt last year in Stockholm to recognize the Algerian-based auto-proclaimed SADR republic. In a sign of easing tensions between the two countries, Swedish Foreign Minister, Margot Wallström, who is visiting Morocco, met on Wednesday her Moroccan counterpart Salaheddine Mezouar to discuss […]
The debate on the issue of the Sahara at the C24 Caribbean Seminar, held in Caracas (May 14-16), ended with sharp exchange between Morocco’s Ambassador to the UN, Omar Hilale and his Algerian counterpart Amar Benjama. The Moroccan diplomat vigorously denounced the acts of intimidation exerted by his Algerian colleague against the delegations which supported […]
