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The United States has decided to support Morocco with integrated air defense networks against missile & drones’ attacks, dealing another hard blow to the Polisario militias, which are armed, funded and sheltered by the ruling Algerian military junta. The decision has been approved lately by the U.S. Congress in its vote for the appropriation bill […]
The Guatemalan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mario Adolfo Bucaro Flores, said that his country is a “reliable and secure ally” of Morocco in Central America, and advocated the consolidation of economic cooperation ties between the two countries that celebrate this year the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of their diplomatic relations. Mario Bucaro also reiterated […]
The Moroccan Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday the end of the second wave of Omicron, after two consecutive weeks of “low green” vigilance level of COVID-19 community circulation and the beginning of the post-wave phase or the fourth intermediate period. “Morocco has experienced a fourth wave of community circulation of COVID-19 that lasted 11 […]
The European Union has reached out to the kingdom of Morocco to study possibilities to invest in the Morocco-Nigeria gas pipeline project that will connect up to Spain, in view of replacing Russia which is using its gas as political weapon. The move came after Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari called on European Union countries and […]
More than 40 rebel and opposition factions signed a deal with Chad’s transitional authorities in Doha on Monday, August 8, agreeing to join broader national peace talks after years of turmoil — though the most powerful insurgent group refused to take part. Under the agreement, Mahamat Idriss Deby’s Transitional Military Council and hundreds of opposition […]
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, who doubles as oil minister, has granted consent to the acquisition of ExxonMobil’s Nigerian unit by Seplat Energy, in a $1.28 billion deal announced in February. According to the statement published Monday, Buhari granted the consent in his capacity as minister of petroleum resources and, in consonance with the country’s drive […]
The United States will not dictate Africa’s choices, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during his visit to South Africa on Monday, August 8, despite having sought support from the continent’s 54 countries in efforts to isolate Russia over its Ukraine invasion. Blinken is in South Africa as part of his African tour that […]
The UK Foreign Affairs Committee has labelled Saddek Elkaber, the Governor of the Central Bank of Libya (CBL) “well-known financier of militias and gangsters” who runs a “troubled organization.” The committee’s bashing of the Libyan official comes after a meeting between Elkaber and Governor of Bank of England Andrew Bailey in July, Libya Update reports. […]
People took to streets Monday in the southern Iraqi province of Basra, and blocked roads to protest against power cuts that left many without electricity in 50C heat, Arab News reported. The demonstrators burned tires, blocking the main road to the provincial capital. The protests, the Saudi media notes, began after the collapse of the […]
Morocco’s growing automotive sector is preparing the ground for the shift to electric vehicles as the country ambitions to set up a battery factory and further bolster the competitiveness of local part makers. In a push to achieve zero emission quest by 2050, the EU imposed a ban on petrol and diesel cars from 2035. […]