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Morocco has been awarded ‘A’ rating by the UN Human Rights Committee for adopting the law on the national mechanism for the prevention of torture, designating its National Human Rights Council as the operative body. The North African kingdom is among the five countries that topped this year the UN committee’s ranking for the implementation […]
Moroccan-Dutch Redouane Taghi, head of “Angels of Death”, a mafia organization, was extradited Wednesday from Dubai to the Netherlands, thanks to the crucial role played by the Moroccan police. The Moroccan police took center stage in chasing the notorious criminal after his Dutch mafia organization “Angels of Death” exported its criminal activities to Morocco […]
The US Senate confirmed on Thursday Dec. 19 David T. Fisher to be the next ambassador to Morocco, succeeding Dwight Lamar Bush, who served in the North African Kingdom from 2014 to 2017. The nomination process took several months in the foreign relations committee of the Republican-dominated senate. During his confirmation hearing at the Senate […]
Democracy brings an end to Polisario recognition in Latin America. All democracies in the region ended the anomaly of recognizing the self-proclaimed Polisario state known as SADR, including Salvador which braces to open an embassy in Rabat. The announcement was made in Rabat following a visit by Salvador’s Foreign Minister Juana Alexandra Hill Tinoco, who […]
French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to pay a two-day visit to Morocco on February 12-13 next year. The date of the visit was confirmed this Thursday by French Secretary of state to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jean Baptiste Lemoyne, in a statement to Moroccan TV channel 2M, following a meeting with Morocco’s […]
The African Development Bank approved on Wednesday a $204 million loan to Morocco to help the North African country upgrade social and medical services provided to disabled persons, poor women and children. The funding will finance the building of two hospitals in the southern cities of Guelmim and Ouarzazate, set up 144 units for special […]
Morocco took over the rotating chairmanship of the Union of Economic & Social Councils & Similar Institutions of Africa during the Union’s General Assembly convened Wednesday in Rabat. Ahmed Reda Chami, President of the Moroccan Economic, Social and Environmental Council (CESE) won the majority of votes and will thus chair the African body for the […]
The Ministry of Energy, Mining and the Environment (MEME), the OCP Group, and the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) have sealed a new partnership agreement to strengthen their cooperation, particularly in the fields of education, training, research and sustainable development. The three sides also signed a Specific Agreement on the creation and development of the […]
Two laws asserting Morocco’s sovereignty on all its territorial waters on the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, including off the Sahara, will soon be adopted by Moroccan MPs. The laws, already adopted by the foreign affairs committee at the Lower House, were described as “ground breaking” by Morocco’s Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita who said the legislation […]
An exhibition paying homage to Morocco’s Blue Helmets and their global humanitarian action is currently hosted at the UN Office in Geneva on the sidelines of the first Global Forum on Refugees. The event, organized by Royal Armed Forces (FAR), reflects Morocco’s commitment to peace, security and humanitarian missions throughout the world. It also highlights […]