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The number of migrants reaching Spain dropped in the last three months thanks to Morocco’s crackdown on migrant trafficking networks, said migration and border control director at Morocco’s Interior Ministry Khalid Zerouali. Some 25,000 migration attempts were foiled between January 1 and May, Zerouali told Reuters in an interview. He denied claims in Spanish media […]
Islamist PJD governance minister Lahcen Daoudi is subject to fierce criticism after he failed to uphold his promise of imposing caps on prices of fuel. The Minister had promised that profit margins of fuel companies will be controlled by mid-March but kept postponing the measure. Yet, this week the Minister bluntly admitted while speaking to […]
The Moroccan Agency for Nuclear and Radiological Safety and Security (AMSSNuR) and Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Agency (RURA) have signed a MoU for cooperation and development in radiological, nuclear safety and security. The MoU was signed by the Director General of AMSSNuR, Khammar Mrabit, and RURA’s Director General Patrick Nyirishema. This 5-year cooperation MoU focuses on […]
The latest UN resolution adopted by the Security Council on the Sahara means that the notions of “independence” or “self-determination referendum” are no longer feasible, underlined the Peruvian Solidarity Council with the so-called SADR, the polisario’s self-declared Sahrawi Republic, supported financially, militarily and diplomatically by Algeria. Resolution 2468, which extended the MINURSO mandate for another […]
UK-listed Chariot Oil and Gas upgraded its gas expectations off Larache coast saying that the new discovery bodes well for Morocco’s “growing gas sector”. Chariot was awarded the Lixus offshore license, which contains the Anchois discovery, in April. Chariot has a 75% interest and operatorship of the Lixus license. Its partner is Morocco’s state-owned Office […]
UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) has suspended oil exploration and production licenses for around 40 foreign companies including French multinational Total. The decision confirmed by economy minister Ali Abdulaziz Issawi said the companies’ licenses expired. Total, aerospace company Thales and the telecoms company Alcatel are among firms to be affected by the move, which […]
Tunisian authorities have dismissed head of a public state-run television channel after the media broadcasted, allegedly by mistake, an old religious sermon hailing the ousted President Ben Ali. Dismissal of Mohammed Lazhar Fares, head of El Wataniya 1 and interim director of El Wataniya 2, occurred early this week over the airing of an old […]
The International Energy Agency has released the latest in-depth review of Morocco’s energy policies, welcoming the institutional, legal and fiscal reforms undertaken by the North African country to promote the sustainable development of the energy sector and the ambitious energy transition pathway it is pursuing. The report was presented in Rabat by Dr Fatih Birol, […]
An attack on an ambulance in Tripoli on Wednesday that has critically injured the head of emergency services in Libya’s war-torn capital, along with two paramedics, has been strongly condemned by UN humanitarians as an abhorrent attack. Health workers and civilians have not been spared in heavy clashes that erupted in early April between the […]
Morocco’s candidate, Jallal Toufiq, was re-elected on Tuesday for a second term as member of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) at elections held in New York, as part of the organizational session of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Toufiq, who was challenging 17 other candidates, was elected in the first round of […]