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Internet usage spikes in Morocco during pandemic

Internet data usage rose dramatically in Morocco during the pandemic on the back of an increase in new subscribers of 4G and broadband, Morocco’s telecoms regulator said. Data usage was up 155% to 8 billion gigabytes in 2020 compared to a year earlier, the agency said. The number of subscribers rose to 29.8 million, which […]

Counterterror: Morocco’s Police Captures another ISIS Operative

Moroccan security services have announced the arrest Saturday of an engineering student with ties to the jihadist terror group, ISIS. The arrest was made in the city of Mohammedia (near Casablanca) by Morocco’s FBI, Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation (BCIJ). According to Moroccan authorities, the captured ISIS member was planning a terrorist plot to undermine […]

US Secretary of State lauds ‘significant’ first post-normalization visit by Lapid in Morocco

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken welcomed Wednesday’s visit by Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid in Morocco as the two countries built on the normalization agreement signed last year under a US-brokered deal.   Blinken in a statement called the visit, along with the reopening of the Israeli liaison office in Rabat, “significant for Israel, […]