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U.S. supports training of Morocco’s Royal Navy Special Forces

American and Moroccan military officials inaugurated on Thursday near the city of Tangier a 15-m high training tower for the Royal Moroccan Navy Special Forces. A team from the U.S. Navy Mobile Construction Battalion One worked with Moroccan Navy partners to complete construction of the tower, at a cost of $710,000. The U.S.-funded project started […]

Libya Celebrates Revolution First Anniversary, Rebels Refuse to Lay Down Arms

Libya celebrated on Tuesday the first anniversary of the revolution that put an end to Moammar Khaddafi’s decades long dictatorship but even so the country is not totally pacified as evidenced by the recent clashes in Bani Walid that opposed pro-government forces to anti-revolutionaries and loyalists to Khaddafi. Bani Walid, one of the final bastions […]

Morocco Reaps 96 million Quintals of Cereals in 2017 Crop Year

After abundant rainfall, Morocco produced 96 million quintals of cereals in the 2016-2017 crop year, the Agriculture Ministry said. The production of soft wheat is estimated at 49 million quintals (51%), followed by barley with 25 million quintals and hard wheat (22 million quintals), the ministry added in a statement. Rabat-Salé-Kenitra region came first in […]