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Lockheed Martin has confirmed the start of the production of fighter jets and attack helicopters ordered by Morocco in an army modernization push that also includes establishing a domestic military industry. The Royal Armed Forces have placed a $9 billion order for the acquisition of 25 F16 jets and 36 Appache helicopters that will help […]
The Moroccan Foundation for Advanced Science, Innovation and Research (MAScIR), a Rabat-based research and development institution, has designed the first 100% Moroccan diagnostic kit for COVID-19 testing. The new product was tested and validated by the Royal Armed Forces, the Royal Gendarmerie as well as the Paris Pasteur Institute. With its 10-year experience in the […]
Morocco has stopped irrigating farmlands in Souss, one of the main agricultural regions, where dam storage rate dropped to 17%, agriculture minister said. Other regions such as Al Haouz is also dealing with scarce water resources while the region of Loukous in northwestern Morocco has a 100% dam storage rate, Agriculture Minister Aziz Akhannouch told […]
Member of European Parliament Ilhan Kyuchyuk has called on the EU to monitor the humanitarian aid the European bloc sends to the Sahrawis sequestered in the Polisario-controlled Tindouf Camps in Southern Algeria. In a written question to the EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, Mr. Kyuchyuk (member of Renew Europe group, previously known as Alliance […]
Despite an overall drop in exports up to April by 20%, Morocco’s exports of phosphates in particular maintained same level in the first quarter this year compared with the same period last year signaling the strategic importance of fertilizers to global food security. The state-owned OCP, one of the world’s biggest exporters of phosphates and […]
Morocco has bought 2 million rapid test kits for 212 million dirhams (21.2 million dollars), the health ministry said. The test meets the technical criteria and matches Moroccan laboratories equipments which will cut additional costs, the ministry said. This comes as Morocco raised significantly its testing capacity to 10,000 daily with over 200,000 tests carried […]
Head of the separatist polisario front, Brahim Ghali, has been again accused of the embezzlement of humanitarian assistance donated by Spanish NGOs to the Sahraoui population sequestered in the Tindouf camps. FORSATIN (Forum of support for autonomists of Tindouf) indicated that Spanish civil society is currently collecting donations to be shipped to the Tindouf camps, […]
Every year, thousands of Moroccans, Algerians… living in Europe used to cross Spain on their way to their countries of origin to spend their summer holidays. But this year, this annual transit operation will not start in June as usual due to coronavirus. The announcement was made lately by the Spanish Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska. […]
The UN Food & Agriculture Organization has praised the resilience of a watershed management project in Morocco, which illustrates how the reduction of disaster and climate risks faced by communities can reduce poverty while increasing biodiversity. In its report “The State of the World’s Forests 2020”, FAO shed light on this pilot project carried out […]
Morocco maintains its medical protocol based on chloroquine in the treatment of coronavirus affected patients, despite the concerns raised by the World Health Organization. While the WHO has decided to temporarily suspend clinical trials with hydroxychloroquine, Morocco maintains its use, reveals L’Economiste daily this Wednesday. Minister of Health, Khalid Aït Taleb, has confirmed that Morocco […]