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After the mandatory military service has been reinstated in Morocco, the first group of young conscripts will start their one-year training September 1. Only 15,000 draftees out of the 25,000 called up will be enlisted after undergoing a series of physical and medical tests starting August 19, according to local media. To ensure success to […]
Japanese electrical and industrial automation company Yokogawa opened its African subsidiary in Casablanca in a bid to expand in Morocco and the continent. In Morocco, the company targets industrial clients in the fields of energy and chemical, pharmaceutical, agri-food industries as well as waste and sewage water treatment. The group generates a turnover […]
Nigeria partnered with Morocco to achieve its food security through an increase in use of fertilisers, Nigerian President Muhammadou Buhari said. “We are taking our focus on agriculture to the next level,” said Buhari in a tweet. Nigeria has Africa’s largest population standing at more than 160 million people with agriculture representing about 40% […]
Morocco and Spain promised to protect the rights of Moroccan female seasonal workers who travel every year to the region of Huelva to work in strawberry fields. In 2018-2019 season they were 14,583 who worked in Huelva in an operation lauded in a joint Moroccan-Spanish statement as “successful.” This form of regular migration was “beneficial […]
Morocco is tightening control over its southern borders with state-of-the-art technology to keep the Sahara and the whole country at bay from threats posed by terrorist groups and organized crime networks, the Moroccan press reported. The most-southern tip on the shared borders with Mauritania had long been a haven for dealers until Morocco cracked […]
Morocco was listed among the 27 countries facing a high level of water stress according to a report issued recently by the World Resources Institute. Morocco was ranked 22nd in a list where Qatar, Lebanon and Israel were described as most countries facing an extremely high level of water shortage threat. Since its independence, Morocco […]
The Tunisian electoral body, ISIE, announced Wednesday it retained only 26 bids out of the 97 received for September 15 snap presidential elections, pending appeals. The ISIE said at a press conference in capital Tunis the 26 are those that fulfilled requirements. The country’s heavy weights among whom Prime Minister Youssef Chahed touted as frontrunner, […]
Last April, just few months before he hands over power, the former Mauritanian president, Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz, whose country is involved in the UN talks to resolve the Sahara conflict, made a “confidence” to the Palestinian journalist, Abdel Bari Attwane. Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz had then revealed that Western countries simply do not want the establishment […]
The UN call for a humanitarian truce over this week’s Eid al-Adha religious holiday led to a “palpable reduction” of violence around the embattled capital of Tripoli, the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) said in a statement released Wednesday Aug.14. Following the UN’s plea last Thursday, both the forces loyal to the UN-recognized […]
The Ministry of the Royal Household, Protocol and Chancellery announced that King Mohammed VI will no longer celebrate his birthday at an official ceremony at the royal palace. In a statement issued Tuesday Aug. 13, the Ministry of the Royal Household, Protocol and Chancellery announced that King Mohammed VI has given the order to no […]