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Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia were in a long list of countries the CIA spied on using encryption company for 50 years, in a case that came to be known as the century’s intelligence coup, the Washington Post reported. Over half a century, from the 1970s on, governments and their intelligence security agencies across the globe […]
King Mohammed VI inaugurated on Wednesday in the Souss Massa region new platforms and cultural projects meant to promote youths’ integration in the job market, stimulate their initiative and entrepreneurship spirit, guarantee their better socio-economic integration and nurture their hope in the future. In the town of Ait Melloul (Inezgane-Aït Melloul prefecture), the Monarch […]
Turkey has accepted to work together with Morocco towards a win-win free trade agreement after Morocco complained about job losses in the textile and retail sectors, trade and industry minister Moulay Hafid Elalamy said. Turkey agreed after a “heated debate” to review the trade agreement, which costs Morocco 1.2 billion dollars in trade deficit, he […]
The project to set up “INSANIA”, an Institute for Advanced Humanities in Africa and the Mediterranean, was announced Saturday in Essaouira during the meeting of the Center for Studies and Research on Hebrew Law in Morocco, held in Bayt Dakira. The setting up of this institute, the first of its kind in the regions of […]
The UN is the only organization entitled to broker a settlement of the Sahara issue, said Chairperson of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat in a statement that confirms AU’s new-found neutrality in the regional conflict. Moussa Faki Mahamat recalled resolution 639 of the African Union in Nouakchott, which remedied the organization’s past […]
Thousands marched in solidarity with Palestinians and their rights to an independent state while denouncing the US Middle East peace plan, known as the deal of the century. The protesters, including representatives of different political parties, rights groups and labor unions, hoisted Palestinian flags and chanted slogans against the US proposal. The protesters expressed […]
Morocco’s Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita renewed on Sunday in Addis Ababa, his country’s firm attachment to the United Nations as the exclusive framework for finding a solution to the Moroccan Sahara issue. This regional conflict is in the hands of the UN which “remains the sole framework for finding a solution to this dispute in […]
The separatist Polisario militias have issued recently a racist statement describing Sub-Saharans in Laayoune in derogatory terms and warning of a “black” invasion of the Canary Islands. The statement, published by the Polisario henchmen in the Canary Islands, comes after a wave of Sub-Saharan countries opened or are planning to open consular representations in the […]
Burkina Faso will be the next state to open a diplomatic representation in the Moroccan Sahara region, as part of an African push to show support for Morocco’s territorial integrity and sovereignty over the southern territory. Burkina Faso will thus be the seventh state to open a consulate in the Sahara after Comoros, Gambia, Gabon, […]
Envoy of the Speaker of the Libyan House of Representatives, Abdulhadi Lahouij, held talks Friday in Rabat with Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, while Khaled Mechri, President of the High Council of State, had a phone talk with Bourita the same day. Talks covered the latest developments in Libya. According to press reports, the Libyan […]