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The Archduchess of Austria-Este, Princess Astrid of Belgium, is expected in the Senegalese capital of Dakar, May 21-25 with an important economic delegation to sign several deals with parties in the West African country. Hubert Roisin, the Belgium ambassador to Senegal made the announcement noting that the royal personality has been assigned the mission by […]
Luis Fernandez, French legend and former coach of Qatar-owned Paris Saint Germain (PSG) is leading the shortlist of future coaches of Madagascar’s football association’s choices for the national team, L’Express de Madagascar reports. The association has drawn up a shortlist of 9 expats to replace French Nicolas Depuis who stepped down in March after the […]
Morocco is busy working to reduce its dependence on foreign-made weapons by developing its own defense industry, said Defenseweb online publication. To reach its strategic goal, Morocco signed in 2019 with Brazil an agreement to share military technology. The agreement, which includes “investment cooperation and facilitation” in military industry, is the first of its kind […]
Morocco will host a meeting of the Libyan steering committee to prepare for elections on which hopes are pinned to break the deadlock that left the oil-rich and war-torn country politically divided. The news was reported by Italy’s Nova news agency citing Libyan House of Representative spokesman Abdullah Belhaq. He said views are converging between […]
The Moroccan government requested the approval of the parliament to increase its budget by an additional $1 billion or 10 billion dirhams to meet rising expenditures, Moroccan economic media reported. The funds are needed to bolster the budget amid an inflationary context marked particularly by drought and reforms. In this respect, 4 billion dirhams of […]
Senior Moroccan and Spanish officials from the interior departments met on Wednesday in Madrid to discuss coordination to ensure a smooth return of Moroccan expatriates for their annual summer holidays. The joint meeting focused on the operational measures put in place by both parties to ensure the best possible conditions for the 2023 transit operation, […]
International and regional efforts to combat armed groups linked to al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and other extremist groups have failed to stop their expansion in Africa’s Sahel region, a senior United Nations official has warned. The joint force set up in 2014 to combat groups linked to al-Qaida, ISIL (ISIS) and others in the Sahel, […]
Moroccan foreign minister Nasser Bourita is taking part in the preparatory meetings for the 32nd Arab Summit due in Jeddah on May 19. The summit comes amid ongoing Sudan crisis, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, continuing tension between Morocco and Algeria over the Sahara issue, Syria’s return to the Pan-Arab organization, the Iranian and Turkish interferences in […]
Morocco’s Saharan region of Dakhla Oued-Edahab is expanding the circle of its regional and international alliance for shared progress and prosperity in the new world order taking form. After having signed lately twinning agreements with U.S. Hollywood city and Peru’s “Pueblo Libre” in Lima, the Moroccan Saharan region sealed on Tuesday a Memorandum of Understanding […]
Australia-listed oil and gas firm Invictus Energy has recently confirmed its discovery of light oil, gas condensate and helium in a remote northeastern region of Zimbabwe, which is hailed as a culmination of months of exploration. Analysis of samples from its remote sites near the border with Mozambique “definitively proves the presence of hydrocarbons in […]