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France has been asked by Senegal’s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye to close all its military bases in the West African state because these were “incompatible” with Senegal’s national sovereignty. Faye made this call in an interview with the AFP on Thursday (28 November), just as Senegal was preparing to mark the 80th anniversary of a […]
Chad’s government is terminating a defense cooperation agreement with France, its former colonial ruler, with its top diplomat saying his country has “grown up” and now wants to fully assert its sovereignty. As Sahel nations, from Niger to Mali to Burkina Faso, have ousted French soldiers from their territories and moved closer to Russia, Chad […]
The joint bid submitted by Morocco, Portugal and Spain to host the 2030 World Cup, only bid in contention, presents a “very strong all-round proposition” and exceeds “minimum hosting requirements” in the technical evaluation, La Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) stated in its bid evaluation report. First and foremost, the joint bid for the […]
Morocco’s central bank has prepared a draft law that would set up a secondary market in which non-performing loans, currently at 9.8 billion dollars, can be sold, in a move that will boost banks’ liquidity. The news was announced by director general of the central bank, Bank Al Maghrib, Abderrahim Bouazza, who said non-performing loans […]
Senior officials from the Moroccan and French Ministries of the Interior and Foreign Affairs, and the co-chairs of the Morocco-France Permanent Joint Migration Group (GMMP) held an unprecedented meeting at the Moroccan embassy in Paris on means of improving migration procedures. The meeting, held at the invitation of Morocco, mainly discussed cooperation on readmission and […]
The National Library of the Kingdom of Morocco hosted, on Friday in Rabat, a meeting to commemorate the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, attended by diplomats, political stakeholders, and civil society representatives. Speaking at the event, Palestine’s Ambassador to Morocco, Jamal Choubaki, said that this International Day is an opportunity to recall […]
The prestigious 2024 MEDays Grand Prize was awarded, on Saturday in Tangier, to three eminent Caribbean leaders: the Prime Minister of Grenada, Dickon Mitchell, the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Dominica, Roosevelt Skerrit, and the Prime Minister of Saint Lucia, Philip Joseph Pierre. Awarded at the closing ceremony of the 16th MEDays Forum, this […]
A group of members of the European Parliament (MEPs) denounced the arbitrary arrest of French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal on Nov.16 in Algiers and demanded his immediate release. In a plenary session, the MEPs called for the immediate release of Sansal, whose arrest was confirmed in a diatribe by Algerian official media who indulged in prejudice […]
Known for his patriotism, resilience and bravery, fighter jet pilot Ali Najab has died at the age of 81, leaving a book that recounts the horrors of the proxy war that has been waged by Algeria on Morocco since 1975. Najab spent 25 years in a jail in the Algerian territory administered by the Polisario […]
Moroccan inventor Fouad Faqiri won, on Friday, the gold medal at the Seoul International Invention Fair (SSIF), held in the Korean capital November 27-30. During the event, Faqiri also received an honorary award from “Citizen Innovation,” a Singaporean alliance working to promote innovators, as well as the title of “Innovation Icon” awarded by the Malaysian […]