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Morocco’s central bank cut the key interest rate from 2% to 1.5% to shore up the economy and reduced the reserve requirement for banks to 0% to release more liquidity. The Bank revised downwards its forecasts for 2020 to -5.2%, the lowest rate since 1996, compared with 2.5% in 2019, as the coronavirus impact and […]
Algeria’s near silence following the death of leader of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), killed in Mali early this month by French troops, has raised a set of questions about a possible connection between terror groups in the Sahel region and the North African country, which has been spared by terror attacks since 2013. […]
The Algerian authorities have arrested lately three leading figures of the “Hirak” protest movement amid the covid-19 pandemic, which has not prevented the oppression machine from prosecuting and convicting pro-democracy activists, political opponents, journalists and bloggers. The arrest of Hakim Addad, Zoheir Keddam and Fodil Boumala has been confirmed by the Algerian League for the […]
The United States has joined the list of countries that commended Morocco’s humanitarian initiative to support several African states in their fight against COVID-19. The US embassy in Morocco tweeted Monday its appreciation for the Moroccan government’s initiative, stating that the US welcomes Morocco’s “leadership in the fight against COVID-19.” “We commend Morocco’s leadership in […]
King Mohammed VI of Morocco underwent a successful operation on Sunday June 14 following a recurrent heart rhythm disorder, the King’s medical team said in a statement. King Mohammed VI successfully underwent an intervention on Sunday June 14 at the clinic of the Royal Palace in Rabat, said the statement of the medical team composed […]
The Permanent Representatives of several African countries to the African Union welcomed the initiative of King Mohammed VI to grant medical aid to support sisterly African nations in their efforts to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. African diplomats expressed their heartfelt thanks to the Monarch and lauded the Kingdom’s active solidarity with the African continent. “Our […]
The flights carrying the medical aid that Morocco decided to grant to several African countries at the order of King Mohammed VI to assist them cope with the COVID-19 health crisis started arriving in the beneficiary states. Thus, a flight of Royal Air Maroc landed Sunday afternoon at the international airport of Nouakchott. Mauritanian Minister […]
A man who managed to escape the siege imposed on thousands of people in Tindouf has confirmed the information according to which the Polisario and its mentor Algeria were gathering people who were not Sahraouis in the Tindouf camps in order to inflate numbers and perpetuate the chimera of a Sahraoui people seeking for a […]
Morocco is planning to ship medical aid to Mauritania and share its anti-coronavirus expertise with its southern neighbor, the Mauritanian foreign minister Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said. Ould Cheikh Ahmed, speaking to Mauritanian news agency, said he had a phone call with his Moroccan peer Nasser Bourita who informed him of a Royal decision to […]
Morocco has expressed its rejection of all unilateral measures that could be taken by Israel in the occupied Palestinian territories, whether in the West Bank or in Eastern Al-Quds. Addressing an emergency meeting of the OIC Executive Committee, held Wednesday, Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita said any Israeli annexation move would violate international law, undermine the […]