First Independent Mena Newspaper
Eighteen-year-old Ayyoub Bouaddi is courted by several Premier League European clubs such as Arsenal, Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain. They are chasing the Lille starlet following his breakout season in France and the World Cup 2026. According to press reports, Bouaddi is one of the most highly rated young players in Ligue 1. Lille are demanding […]
Morocco, the first African team ever to reach the semi-finals in 2022, have earned their deserved 1-1 draw against Brazil in their opening World Cup match played Saturday at the New York New Jersey Stadium. The Atlas Lions opened the score in the 21st minute when Ismael Saibari lifted the ball over the Alisson Becker […]
The Spanish Civil Guard announced on Saturday the seizure of nearly 4.8 tons of hashish during an operation conducted in coordination with the Moroccan Royal Gendarmerie in the waters of the Strait of Gibraltar. The operation was triggered following the detection of a “go-fast” semi-rigid boat navigating at high speed and suspected of carrying a […]
Morocco is carefully evaluating a Chinese proposal to launch free trade negotiations, as authorities weigh the potential benefits against risks to domestic industry and existing trade commitments, Industry and Trade Minister Ryad Mezzour said. China has formally suggested a bilateral free trade agreement, but Rabat is proceeding cautiously, conducting impact assessments before deciding whether to […]
Calls are intensifying for the Sahara issue to be withdrawn from the United Nations’ Special Committee on Decolonization (C24), with advocates arguing that recent diplomatic developments, including Security Council Resolution 2797, have fundamentally reframed the dispute as a political and regional question that should be settled on the basis of Morocco’s autonomy plan rather than […]
Morocco’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Omar Hilale, co-chaired, Friday in New York, a high-level meeting of the UN Group of Friends on Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Development, which focused on preparations for the first Global Dialogue on AI governance, slated for July 6–7 in Geneva, Switzerland. During the meeting, the Global Dialogue’s co-chairs- […]
Despite years of economic expansion, Morocco’s informal sector has proven stubbornly resistant to formalization — a phenomenon that two economists from the Policy Center for the New South attribute not to a lack of growth, but to a structural mismatch between the costs and benefits of formal status. In a recent discussion held at the […]
A coalition of Moroccan companies operating in the dietary supplement sector is calling on the government, political parties, and members of parliament to withdraw a modification to article 30 of pharmaceutical law 17-04, adopted in early June by the Chamber of Representatives and currently awaiting examination by the upper chamber, reported le360 news outlet. The […]
Morocco’s Direction des Domaines de l’Etat published its annual report for 2025, documenting significant expansion in the mobilization of state-owned land for productive investment. The agency approved 308 projects on a total of approximately 32,000 hectares of public land, representing a projected investment of 71 billion dirhams and the creation of 16,333 jobs. Ninety percent […]
King Mohammed VI has been represented at the funeral of Bernadette Chirac by his sister Princess Lalla Meryem. Upon her arrival at the Basilica of Sainte-Clotilde where the funeral service was held on Friday, Princess Lalla Meriem was greeted by Claude Chirac, daughter of the deceased, before taking her seat inside the church alongside France’s […]