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The Speaker and Members of the Regional Parliament of the Basque Country have vigorously denounced, Wednesday in Vitoria Gasteiz, the serious violations of human rights perpetrated by the Polisario against the Sahrawi populations sequestered in the Tindouf camps. This came at a meeting held at the headquarters of the Basque Regional Parliament with visiting civil […]
King Mohammed VI appointed Chakib Benmoussa head of the new ad-hoc committee for the development model, an advisory body that is tasked with making proposals and suggestions to improve the development reforms and increase their effectiveness. Chakib Benmoussa served as interior minister from 2006 to 2010 and head of the social economic and environmental […]
The Commander of US Ground Forces for Africa (Africom), Major-General Roger Cloutier, has recently visited Morocco for a meeting, in Agadir, with Commander of the Southern Zone, Inspector of Infantry Major General Belkheir El Farouk. This meeting between the two top Moroccan and American officers is part of the preparations for the 2020 edition of […]
Special UN Representative and head of the UN Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) Ghassan Salamé has deplored the airstrike slammed into a biscuit factory in Libya’s capital, Tripoli, while people were at work. Addressing the UN Security Council Monday via videoconference from the Libyan capital, he said he was “angry and sad” by the new mass […]
Morocco, the second largest arm buyer in Africa, wants its future weapon deals to be accompanied by a technology transfer clause as it seeks to develop a domestic military industry. Minister delegate in charge of Defense Abdellatif Loudiyi said that deals with arm manufacturers should provide for transferring maintenance know-how to the Royal Armed Forces. […]
American Airlines signed a codeshare agreement with Morocco’s Royal Air Maroc to complement its new route to Casablanca wherefrom it seeks further expansion into Africa. The agreement will enter into force upon approval by the US Department of Transportation. The two airlines already have an interline agreement in place. But the codeshare would allow the […]
Moroccan police arrested Monday four Tunisian women for drug trafficking at the Marrakech-Menara airport. The suspects, aged between 19 and 45 were accompanied with a five-year-old child, according to a statement from the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN). The women were arrested in possession of 6.485 kg of cannabis resin, carefully concealed in their […]
Tunisia’s recently elected President Kais Saied has tasked agricultural engineer Habib Jemli, 60, with forming a government after the Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party nominated him for the prime minister’s job. According to Jemli, the cabinet members will be chosen on “their competence and integrity, regardless of their political affiliation”. The next government will have to work […]
Morocco expressed its full support for the implementation of the Political Agreement for Peace and Reconciliation in the Central African Republic (CAR), Morocco’s foreign ministry said. The agreement provides, inter alia, for elections, national reconciliation, social cohesion and transitional justice; facilitating the creation of a secure environment for the delivery of humanitarian assistance; and the […]
The newly appointed ambassador of Algeria to Morocco Abdelhamid Abdaoui has presented a copy of his credentials to Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita in Rabat on Wednesday, the foreign department said in a statement. Abdelhamid Abdaoui, appointed end of last September extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador to Rabat, is replacing Ahmed Benyamina who was Chief of […]