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Since launching the migrant regularization campaign, Morocco has steadily become a “destination of choice” for several Sub-Saharan migrants, pushing them to give up the risky idea of joining Europe by sea, says the Irish Times. “Once merely a stepping stone for those desperately chasing their European dream, the North African country has now become the […]
The World Economic Forum issued the 2017 Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index placing Morocco on top of North African countries, third in the continent and 65th in the globe. Morocco came ahead of Tunisia (87th) and Egypt (74th) while Algeria (136th) took the very last position in the report, which offers an in-depth analysis of […]
Spain plans to acquire 348 “Piranha 5” 8×8 wheeled armored fighting vehicles from General Dynamics European Land Systems (GDELS) in a first phase of purchase, Secretary of State of Defense Vicente Conde told the national Congress, reported the independent Defense News on its website. The N°2 in the Spanish Defense Ministry added that the Spanish […]
King Mohammed VI approved a government where politically non-affiliated ministers took key security, defense, foreign affairs and religious affairs portfolios while Ministers of liberal RNI maintained their positions in Key economic ministries. The composition of the new cabinet drew criticism to the head of the government Saad Eddine El Othmani who was blamed for giving […]
Morocco was ranked in 2016 fourth in world destination per flights to or from European airports after the United States, Russia and the United Arab Emirates, said Euronews. In an article on the increasing airport security cooperation between Morocco and Europe, Euronews shed light on the importance of Casablanca’s airport as a hub that hosted […]
The German judicial authorities Wednesday green-lighted the deportation of a Tunisian man wanted by his country’s authorities for his alleged involvement in Bardo and Ben Guerdane attacks. Frankfort administration court has allowed the man’s deportation but on condition that Tunisian authorities prove that he will not be subject to torture or handed death penalty, reports […]
Spanish security authorities in Catalonia announced Wednesday the arrest of a 19-year old Moroccan woman charged for apology and recruitment for the Islamic State group (IS). The woman born in Morocco has lived in Catalonia for several years. She has been arrested at Terrasse, near Barcelona, local minister of the Interior of la Generalitat, Jordi […]
South African paper, The Conversation, highlighted that Morocco managed to outmatch Algeria and South Africa diplomatically and economically in Africa thanks to a reinvigorated African diplomacy that culminated with a triumphal return to the African Union. “Morocco has been on a massive diplomatic drive, using both its political and economic muscle. Since his coronation in […]
As issues relating to Russian influence in the EU, US and the Middle East are in the limelight, Russia continues to quietly make inroads in North Africa where it has been gaining a foothold in Libya and boosting its military exports to Algeria and Egypt while strengthening economic ties with Morocco and Tunisia, said the […]
Moroccan military capabilities will be enhanced with 317 AIM-9X Block II Sidewinder missiles to be supplied by the American defense company Raytheon, according to press reports. The contract awarded to Raytheon also includes 199 Block II captive air-training missiles to be used during military exercises. Sidewinder missiles are infrared-tracking weapons used for short-range air-to-air and […]