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Senegal is planning to build sports infrastructure including stadiums in 26 provinces across the 46 that up of the West African country, Sports Minister Yankhoba Diatara announced Wednesday according to Faapa news agency. The Head of State Macky Sall, Diatara told lawmakers during a plenary, has instructed the cabinet to work on a program to […]
King Mohammed VI was seen in Rabat’s street sharing the joy of millions of Moroccans after their team made it to the quarter finals of Qatar World Cup following a well-deserved and passionate game against Spain. The King, in a red and green jersey of the national team, had congratulated in a phone call head […]
Morocco has lent Qatar a helping hand to secure the World Cup besides the contribution of its citizens in the artistic promotion of the event. Some 6000 Moroccan security staff have travelled to Qatar to help the country ensure the World Cup takes place in best conditions. Qatar has also hired security officials from the […]
“Morocco has long been a champion of inter-faith dialogue and a leader in our fight against extremism”, said on Tuesday in Fez UN Chief Antonio Guterres in his opening remarks at the 9th Global Forum of UN Alliance of Civilizations. “I would particularly like to thank His Majesty King Mohammed VI for his personal and […]
Morocco’s Prince Moulay Rachid is representing King Mohammed VI at COP-27 Climate summit which opened Monday in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, to discuss global efforts to reduce CO2 emissions and speed up transition from fossil fuels to green economy. On his arrival at the International Conference Centre, Prince Moulay Rachid was greeted on a red […]
Cycling from the Netherlands down to Senegal may be a mission impossible for most people, but not for Moroccan Karim Mosta. He is a cycling enthusiast who loves adventures. Karim, 68, is a two-time winner of the Ultra Marathon World Cup. Despite his age, he rode from Amsterdam all the way to Dakar, a three-month […]
‘Algeria once had 140,000 Jews. Algeria, where are your Jews?’ The question was raised by Hillel Neuer – an outspoken defender of Israel and frequent critic of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Neuer’s query was met with silence. The primary reason for the departure of Algerian Jews is, of course, that some 850,000 […]
The polisario-forced and Algeria-backed recruitment of children in the camps of Tindouf fuels instability in North Africa and the Sahel, said, on Thursday in Dakhla, the minister of Foreign Affairs, Nasser Bourita. Speaking at a conference organized by the International Research Center on the Prevention of Child Soldiers, Bourita stressed the correlation between the lack […]
Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita has stressed the need to build up a new dynamic for peace in the Middle East and to take concrete measures likely to open up promising prospects for the peoples of the whole region. “We must build a dynamic based on concrete steps that the people can feel, a dynamic […]
These statements, made last night on France 5, come a few hours after a video conference meeting of European foreign ministers and on the eve of a meeting between Emmanuel Macron and three of his Sahelian counterparts: Niger’s Mohamed Bazoum, Chad’s Mahamat Idriss Déby and Mauritania’s Mohamed Ould Ghazouani. “The President of the Republic wanted […]