First Independent Mena Newspaper
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Tuesday in Washington that he will pay a visit to Morocco early December. Mike Pompeo who made the announcement at a news briefing at the State Department described Morocco as “one of the strongest partners” of the United States in the region. “I’m looking forward to reviewing our […]
French carmaker PSA and Morocco’s car technology industry center (CETIEV) joined efforts to boost research and development in the country, a move that would result in technology transfer. Key to Morocco’s industrial strategy is technology transfer through attracting large-scale investments that spur the growth of local suppliers in order to increase the rate of locally […]
Chinese Citic Dicastal group, the largest producer of aluminum wheels in the world, launched a second factory worth €350 million in Morocco’s Kenitra, one year after opening a plant in the same area. Part of a project dubbed, Citic Dicastal Africa, the new plant stretches over a surface area of 30,000 square meters and will […]
Morocco’s FBI, the central Bureau of judicial investigations (BCIJ), arrested an extremist, suspected of supporting ISIS ideology, in Salé, Rabat’s twin-city, this Tuesday, who was preparing to carry out a suicide attack. Preliminary investigations showed that the 33-year old suspect knows how to manufacture explosives and was promoting and glorifying the extremist ideology of ISIS […]
Morocco has renewed its unwavering support for the Palestinian cause and for the legitimate right of the Palestinian people to establish an independent and viable State. This came during an extraordinary meeting of the Council of Arab Foreign Ministers, held to discuss the US government’s new stand on Israel’s West Bank settlements that it no […]
World Powers have brushed aside the UN and the African Union’s proposal to appoint former Mauritanian leader Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz as their joint Special Envoy to Libya, Chadian President Idriss Deby told Jeune Afrique magazine. The Chadian leader in an interview with the Paris-based magazine did not name the refusing powers, which are very […]
Marrakech is hosting INTERPOL’s fourth meeting for Chiefs of Police from the Middle East and North Africa, with ways of tackling organized crime and terrorism high on the agenda. With the MENA region being one of the fastest growing regions for information exchange via INTERPOL, senior law enforcement officials are meeting to identify ways for […]
A demonstration in solidarity with the victims of the serious violations of human rights committed by the polisario against Sahrawi populations sequestered in the Tindouf camps in the Algerian territory, was held on Saturday at the Constitution Plaza in Vitoria Gasteiz, in the Basque Country. The demonstration was organized as part of a series of […]
Morocco expressed at the highest level strong attachment to advancing the rights of children through the adoption of a roadmap drawing a series of priority actions to protect children. This came at an event chaired by Princess Lalla Meryem, sister of King Mohammed VI, celebrating the 16th National Congress of the Rights of the Child […]
The global annual campaign “16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence” was launched Saturday in Marrakech under the theme “Positive Masculinities: Men & boys reject violence against women and girls”. This event, open to the general public and organized by the United Nations in commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against […]