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Ten days before the European Court of Justice (ECJ) delivers its verdict on the EU-Morocco fisheries agreement, Willy Fautré, director of Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF), told the EU Reporter news portal that the deal is mutually beneficial and conducive to promoting human rights in Morocco. The EU-Morocco Fisheries Partnership Agreement is due for renewal […]
A new chapter has been opened in Moroccan-South African relations following the ice-breaking meeting between Morocco and the outgoing South African President Jakob Zoma. The election of Cyril Ramaphosa is boding well for bilateral ties between two of Africa’s leading powers. King Mohammed VI of Morocco, who showed interest in bolstering ties with South Africa, […]
“The strategic partnership between the EU and Morocco, which started as early as 1960, should not be undermined by certain lobbying groups, willing to use the existing legal void to act against the Union’s best interests,” said Ilhan Kyuchyuk, member of the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs committee. In an article in the European Parliament Magazine, […]
The Polisario member who was arrested by Morocco’s counterterrorism agency, the Central Bureau for Judicial Investigations (BCIJ), during the dismantling Thursday of a terror cell is a separatist who underwent training to the handling of weapons in the Polisario-run camps in Tindouf. According to a security source, quoted by the news portal le360, the detainee, […]
Morocco has donated Paraguay $700,000 destined to refurbish the infrastructure and equipment of six Family Health Units in two departments of the Latin American country. The donation by the Moroccan Agency for International Cooperation (AMCI) will improve medicare in six health units in Guairá and Caazapá in Southern Paraguay and reduce child and maternal mortality. […]
Moroccan authorities arrested three individuals loyal to IS, including a Polisario member, who were plotting attacks in the Kingdom. Morocco’s counterterrorism agency, the Central Bureau for Judicial Investigations (BCIJ), arrested the three IS members, aged between 24 and 30, in Laayoune, Salé and Marrakech, the Interior ministry said in a statement. The arrested individuals are […]
Morocco is readying to reopen its embassy in Iraq, after the diplomatic mission has been closed for thirteen years for security reasons. The embassy, closed after two Moroccan nationals were kidnapped in 2005, will reopen in the coming weeks, affirmed local daily Akhbar Al Yaoum, in its Thursday issue. The reopening of the Moroccan Embassy […]
Morocco’s Energy Ministry delivered permits to Voltalia to build two hydropower plants of respectively 9.8 MW and 7.2 MW in the Middle-Atlas region. “These permits follow positive technical approvals delivered by the National Bureau for Electricity and Drinking Water regarding the connection of the plants to the national grid,” said the French company in a […]
Morocco has made a major stride forward for the rights of women with the new law passed by the Parliament, criminalizing harassment, aggression, sexual exploitation of women or their ill-treatment. Drafted five years ago, the text was adopted with a majority vote of 112, against 55 and one abstention. It provides for harsher penalties for […]
Moroccan and Indian authorities are preparing the launch of the Casablanca-New Delhi air route as part of an effort to bolster business and tourist ties, a diplomatic source told le360.ma. The air link will be operated by Morocco’s and India’s flag carriers, Royal Air Maroc (RAM) and Air India, the news portal said. The two […]