Over 34 million passengers used Moroccan trains in 2021

Moroccan train operator ONCF regained normal traffic with 34.5 million passengers using its trains in 2021, up 64% compared to a year earlier marked by Covid-19 lockdown and travel restrictions. The state-owned company’s revenue stood at 3.5 billion dirhams the same year, compared with 2.8 billion in 2020, ONCF chief told the board of directors. […]

Moroccan airline RAM to resume Casablanca-Beijing flights in January 2025, to launch Casablanca-Toronto route in December 2024

Moroccan flag carrier Royal Air Maroc said it will resume direct flights linking Casablanca and Beijing starting 20 January 2025, and will launch Casablanca-Toronto route on 8 December this year. The airline will operate three flights weekly between Morocco and China, after nearly a five-year halt suspension due to the Covid 19 pandemic. RAM will […]

Belgium Moves Closer to Historic Trial Over Patrice Lumumba’s Killing

Belgian prosecutors have announced on Tuesday, June 17 their intention to prosecute 92-year-old former diplomat Etienne Davignon for alleged involvement in the 1961 assassination of Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba. Davignon is the sole surviving member of a group of ten Belgians named in a 2011 lawsuit by Lumumba’s children, who accused them of complicity […]