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Foreign ministers from three west African nations ruled by military regimes — namely Mali, Guinea and Burkina Faso — all of whom came to power following coups, met in Burkinabé capital Ouagadougou on Thursday, February 9 on the heels of a trip to the region by Russian envoy Sergei Lavrov. The meeting comes only days […]
The news was announced in a statement published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in the Official Gazette, in the section “Announcements and press releases”. The statement outlines that the decision to terminate the functions of Mohamed Benchaaboun as ambassador to Paris takes effect on January 19. “Following royal instructions, it was decided to end […]
Real Madrid’s Italian coach Carlo Ancelotti said on Friday he was “impressed” by the Mohammed VI Football Academy, the Whites’ training camp during the Club World Cup, which is being held in the cities of Rabat and Tangier (February 1 to 11). “The training center of the Mohammed VI Football Academy is impressive”, said the […]
Morocco has been targeted with unfounded accusations of using Pegasus malware to spy on dissidents, said its French lawyer, adding that 18 months after these “imaginary” accusations were made, Amnesty or any of the accusers failed to show any hard evidence of wrongdoing. These claims “have not been backed by any technical evidence,” Olivier Baratelli […]
The Moroccan government has called for strengthening Arab economic cooperation and integration to counter the current economic and social challenges. Addressing the Arab Economic and Social Council meeting, which opened Thursday in Cairo, Moroccan Ambassador to Egypt & Permanent Representative to the Arab League Ahmed Tazi stressed the need to speed up the implementation of […]
Sudanese capital of Khartoum has seen a flurry of high-level diplomatic activity, with visits of Russia’s top diplomat and envoys from the United States and Europe, in what has been dubbed as “a new scramble for Africa” by the Kremlin and its Western opponents Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s visit to Khartoum (8-9 February) — […]
Moroccans of all walks of life stand united against the orchestrated hostile campaigns spearheaded by some French members of European Parliament against the North African Kingdom in a bid to undermine its progress and rising regional economic power. On Wednesday, Moroccan lawmakers, attorneys, university professors, geo-political analysts and civil society militants denounced the tactics used […]
A Cairo Criminal court has removed the name of the businessman Safwan Thabet, the grandson of outlawed Muslim Brotherhood’s second leader Hassan al-Hudaybi, from the terror list following his release in mid-January. Safwan, the founder and former CEO of Juhayna Food Industries, and his son Seif El-Din were set free on January 21 from prison […]
The United States Thursday warned its citizens in Kenya of possible terror attack in Nairobi County. The US embassy in capital Nairobi said that terrorist groups could stage an attack with little or no warning, targeting areas with many people. The alert indicates that high traffic areas frequented by foreigners and tourists in Nairobi and […]
The settlement of the Moroccan Sahara issue was at the focus of a meeting held on Wednesday in Moscow between Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin and Moroccan Ambassador to Russia Lotfi Bouchaara. The two sides also discussed other issues of mutual interest on the agenda of the United Nations, the Russian Foreign Ministry said […]