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U.S. & Morocco agree on new container security initiative, cornerstone of global supply chain security

The United States has sealed a new bilateral Container Security Initiative arrangement with Morocco to facilitate the high volume of cargo transiting between both countries. The agreement was signed Tuesday in Rabat by Donald Conroy, CBP’s Executive Director of the Office of Field Operations International Operations and Abdellatif Amrani, General Director of the Customs and […]

Mauritanian President receives Morocco’s Head of Government, expresses desire to consolidate brotherly relations with the Kingdom

Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani received, on Thursday in Nouakchott, Morocco’s Head of Government, Aziz Akhannouch, who represented King Mohammed VI at the investiture ceremony of the Mauritanian Head of State for a second five-year term. In a statement to MAP following the audience, Akhannouch said that he informed the Mauritanian President of […]

Terror attack in Burkina Faso on mining company leaves six killed

An attack on a convoy belonging to a mining company in Burkina Faso, Boungou mining field, in the East of the West African country, has left six people dead, the army has reported. The army, in a statement said, unidentified armed men attacked a convoy of five cars of the mining company, in early hours […]