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There is a good chance that travelers will be able to board a high-speed train in Madrid and travel from Spain to the Moroccan city of Casablanca in five and a half hours, through a new tunnel under the Strait of Gibraltar, says U.S. Forbes magazine. Spain and Morocco are now reconsidering this ambitious undertaking, […]
Chariot energy Company has signed an agreement with Vivo Energy Maroc firm on future natural gas offtake from the Loukos Onshore license in which the British company holds 75% stake, while Moroccan National Office of Hydrocarbons and Mines (ONHYM) has 25 %. In a press release issued Monday, Chariot said the aim of the agreement […]
The Moroccan men’s beach volleyball team qualified, on Sunday, for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, after winning the African championship held in Martil, northern Morocco. The Moroccan team, composed of Zouheir Elgraoui and Mohamed Abicha, retained their African title by beating Mozambique in the final with two sets to zero (21-18, 21-12). The Moroccan […]
Mauritania has overtaken Senegal as the main departure point for those taking on the perilous Atlantic crossing to the Spain’s Canary Islands, during which more than 5,000 people died in the first five months of this year. 95% of migrants who try to reach Spain by sea do so on Atlantic Ocean crossings from West […]
Rwanda is “ready to fight” with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) if necessary, its President Paul Kagame has declared in response to the accusations from Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi who had claimed that Rwanda was orchestrating genocide in eastern DRC. In a recent exclusive interview with FRANCE 24, Kagame discussed the growing tensions in […]
French police has let go one of the outspoken leaders of the Kabyle independence movement, known as MAK, wanted by Algiers. Aksel Bellabaci has been interrogated by the French police in Paris following an arrest warrant filed by Algeria, which accuses the Kabyle activist of igniting fires in Kabyle region in 2021. The failure to […]
Worry grips Egyptian officials who fear a natural disaster as Ethiopia prepares to fill its giant Nile dam, the Great Renaissance Dam, for the fifth time, without any coordination with downstream countries, Egypt and Sudan. Egypt has for long expressed concern at the dam, while Ethiopia argues that the water-sharing deals signed under the colonial […]
Morocco and the United States have launched in New York the Group of Friends on Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Development. The group, launched by Morocco’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Omar Hilale, and his U.S. counterpart, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, held its first meeting at ambassadorial level at the headquarters of the U.S. Permanent Mission in New […]
Algeria’s president Abdelmadjid Tebboune was invited to the latest G7 summit held in Italy due to the pressure exerted by French President Emmanuel Macron, says a London-based think-tank in its latest report. If, as expected, French party Rassemblement National (RN) wins upcoming snap parliamentary elections and takes control of the government, it will almost certainly […]
The United States is “grateful to Morocco for their regional leadership”, said U.S. State Department spokesperson, Matthew Miller following a phone call between Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nasser Bourita. Mr. Blinken had a “productive discussion” with Mr. Bourita, the spokesperson stated in a post Friday on X (formerly known […]