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Morocco’s Royal Armed Forces (FAR) on Sunday foiled an international drug trafficking attempt, at the level of Oum Dreiga, along the defense line in the Moroccan Sahara. The trafficking attempt was foiled as part of the surveillance of Morocco’s borders and during the patrols conducted by the FAR along the defense line at the level […]
Tunisian President Kais Saied Sunday officially dissolved the High Judicial Council; the country’s judicial independent body that he accuses of being in league with some politicians and refusal to rule over some corruption and assassination cases in the country. He signed the decree for the move in the presence of Prime Minister Najla Bouden and […]
Child rights activists, university professors, journalists and civil society advocates have set up lately a coalition dedicated to the protection of the rights of children violated by the Polisario armed militia in Tindouf Camps under the watch of Algerian authorities. The new body was formed on the occasion of the International Day against the Use […]
The embassy of the Kingdom of Morocco in Kiev on Saturday advised Moroccan citizens in Ukraine to leave the country for security reasons. In light of the current situation, Morocco’s embassy in Kiev recommends that Moroccan citizens in Ukraine leave the country for their safety via available commercial flights, said a statement from the diplomatic […]
A coalition bringing together the 27 states of the European Union and 13 other countries, including Morocco, was announced on Friday at the One Ocean Summit, with the aim of achieving an international treaty on the protection of high seas, an area of ecological lawlessness, currently under negotiation. The announcement was made by French President […]
Morocco and Finland have signed an agreement meant to foster their cooperation in the energy sector. The document was signed during a virtual meeting between the Minister of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development, Leïla Benali, and the Finnish Minister of Economy, Mika Lintilä, represented in Rabat by the Finnish Ambassador to Morocco, Pekka Hyvönen. The […]
Algeria has failed in its endeavor to bring Palestinian factions together around the mediation table which it pinned hope for in its quest to host the Arab league summit. Algeria’s quest is more about whitewashing the image of a decaying regime that punches above its weight diplomatically to distract its own citizens from the deepening […]
The United Nations Thursday rejected the appointment of former Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha as the country’s new Premier in replacement of the incumbent Abdul Hamid Dbeibah by the parliament, Al Wasat news outlet reports. The state legislature headquartered in Tobruk according to its spokesman Abdullah Belhaq voted unanimously to appoint Bashagha and granted him confidence. […]
Head of Moroccan government, Aziz Akhannouch, is taking part in the first high-level summit dedicated to the ocean, which opened Friday in Brest, northwest of France, to strengthen international cooperation in combating illegal fishing, decarburizing shipping, and reducing plastic pollution in high seas. Akhannouch was greeted by President Emmanuel Macron upon his arrival at the […]
Tunisia’s national carrier, TunisAir, will lay off 1,000 employees over three years starting from 2022 as part of plans to reduce financial burden and return the company to profitability, CEO Khaled Chelly has revealed. Chelly made the announcement Thursday while receiving the second small body A320neo of a four-jet deal signed with Airbus. The first […]