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The Moroccan carrier Royal Air Maroc inaugurated, this Sunday, March 13, 2022, the first direct flight of its regular line linking Casablanca to Tel Aviv. To celebrate this event, a Moroccan delegation made up of economic operators and other personalities were aboard the plane of the inaugural trip to take part in a series of […]
The Mexico-Morocco Friendship Club has reiterated its support for the autonomy plan as the “only” solution to the regional conflict over the Sahara, and condemned the separatists’ attempts aimed at destabilizing the Sahara and Sahel region. “We reiterate our support for the Moroccan proposal for autonomy and we condemn the separatist plans which attempt to […]
Coast Guards of the Moroccan Royal Navy, operating in the Mediterranean, aborted, Friday, a drug trafficking operation east of Al Hoceima, says a military source. This operation led to the seizure of 53 bundles of narcotics abandoned by a go-fast boat which fled at high speed when approached by units of the Royal Navy, the […]
The United States government, through AFRICOM, donated two field hospital systems to Morocco’s Ministry of Health at a ceremony held Friday at the Ministry of Health’s logistics depot in Salé. The first system is a five-bed Intensive Care Unit valued at $960,000 and the second system is a mobile emergency room valued at $700,000. These […]
Repatriation efforts by the Moroccan government managed to repatriate more than 2800 Moroccan students from war-hit Ukraine since February 15, according to official data. Moroccan flag carrier RAM has organized 16 flights to neighboring countries where Moroccan consular services assisted students who left the war zone. Royal Air Maroc had planned in late February, special […]
Mauritania and Morocco held their 8th High Joint Commission, during which officials from the two countries voiced strong willingness to unlock bilateral cooperation prospects. The event was co-chaired by the head of the Moroccan government, Aziz Akhannouch, and the Mauritanian Prime Minister, Mohamed Ould Bilal in Rabat Friday. Speaking at the opening of the event, […]
Tunisians are suffering from a shortage of basic foodstuff which the President ascribed to food profiteering and speculators. In the wake of soaring food prices in international markets, president Kais Saied said in a presidency statement that he was launching a “relentless war on speculators and criminals.” Food speculators could face heavy prison sentences as […]
The war in Ukraine will not affect Morocco’s wheat supply but will have an impact on prices, said government spokesman Mustapha Baitas. Morocco has a diversified wheat basket with Russia and Ukraine representing 25% and 11% of Moroccan supplies respectively, he said. Morocco does not import hard wheat from the two Black Sea markets, he […]
Libyan authorities have arrested six Tunisian fishermen in Libyan waters after they departed from Al Ketf port, Webdo Tunis reports. The move, the media reveals, came public after a man in Jebeniana, in the Sfax governorate in Tunisia, Thursday called on local and Libyan authorities to secure the release of his son who is among […]
Senegalese President Macky Sall has fired a senior official who caused waves by publicly denouncing, on International Women’s Day, as “nonsense” traditions such as the ban on women working or shaking hands with men. The president has “terminated the functions of Mr. Papa Amadou Sarr, Delegate General for Rapid Entrepreneurship of Women and Youth” (DER/FJ), […]