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Mauritanian Prime Minister Mohamed Ould Bilal started Thursday a working visit to Morocco, during which he will co-chair with the Head of Government, Aziz Akhannouch, the eighth session of the Moroccan-Mauritanian High Joint Commission. The eighth session of the Moroccan-Mauritanian High Joint Commission, to be held Friday, will open new prospects for the consolidation of […]
The Mauritanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Tuesday that it had summoned the Malian ambassador and informed him of its “strong protest against the recent recurrent criminal acts” committed by the Malian army in Mali against Mauritanians. Mauritania made this protest to Ambassador Mohamed Dibassy after two serious events involving Mauritanians in the space of […]
By March 1 at noon, over 2000 Moroccans, mostly students, managed to leave the Ukrainian territory to neighboring countries, Moroccan foreign ministry said. Most crossings took place in Poland, followed by Romania, Slovakia and Hungary as Morocco dislocated its embassy and consular staff to Lviv, about 70 kilometers south of the Polish border. Prior to […]
Morocco will reserve seats for Mauritanian students on flights scheduled by Royal Air Maroc to evacuate Moroccans living in Ukraine, the Mauritanian Foreign Ministry announced this Monday, February 28. Mauritanian students established in Ukraine will be able to board special flights to be operated by RAM to repatriate Moroccan nationals from March 2. The Mauritanian […]
Means to promote economic and trade relations between Morocco and Mauritania and the facilitation of investment were at the focus of a meeting held Wednesday in Casablanca between the President of the General Confederation of Moroccan Enterprises (CGEM), Chakib Alj, and the President of the National Union of Mauritanian Employers (UNPM), Zein El Abidine Ould […]
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on all parties to the Sahara conflict to resume the UN-led political process to reach a solution to this regional dispute. “It is time for the parties to understand the need for dialogue to reach a solution” to the Sahara issue, which has been going on for several decades, […]
The restoration project of historic mosaics of the archeological site of Volubilis, an ancient Roman city near Meknes, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, was launched Wednesday in presence of minister of culture Mohamed Mehdi Bensaid and U.S. Chargé d’Affaires, David Greene. Supported by the U.S., the $189,000 project will be carried out by Ifker Association […]
The UN Secretary General’s personal envoy for the Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, was in Rabat on Thursday, where he started his first tour of the region since taking office in November 2021. Reiterating its support for the UN envoy, the Biden administration, part of the continuity of the American recognition, in December 2020, of the […]
UN Secretary General’s Personal Envoy for the Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, conferred on Thursday in Rabat with Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita on the Sahara. During the talks, attended by Morocco’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Omar Hilale, the Moroccan top diplomat reiterated the fundamentals of the Kingdom’s position as stated in the speeches made […]
As his predecessors, the new UN envoy for the Sahara, Staffan De Mistura, is expected to head shortly to the North African region for consultations with the parties to the Sahara conflict: Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania and the Polisario. The UN envoy “is actively preparing his first regional tour”, has said lately Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for […]