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Morocco and Niger have strengthened their partnership with the signing on Tuesday in Rabat of 16 cooperation agreements destined to lift their strategic partnership to higher levels. The deals, sealed during the 4th session of the Morocco-Niger Joint High Committee, include projects in the sectors of trade, tourism, culture, health, training, justice, customs and transport. […]
Moroccan security services arrested four terror suspects in the region of Souss-Massa, two of them were students at the Islamic Studies School. The suspects were arrested by Morocco’s counter-terrorism agency, the Central Bureau for Judicial Investigations (BCIJ) in the cities of Inezgane, Ait Melloul and Chtouka-Ait Baha. In 2017, the BCIJ busted nine terror cells […]
Protests have been building up in the eastern town of Jerada after two brothers drowned, last Friday, at an abandoned coal mine. The two illegal miners, aged 23 and 30, lost their lives after a flood flushed through the disused mine. The protesters denounced the delay by authorities in extracting the bodies from the well […]
Morocco reinforced its position within the UN in 2017 as the Kingdom and several Moroccans have made it to the top UN agencies in 2017 thanks to their credibility and competence. The rise of the Kingdom in UN Committees attests to the efficiency of Moroccan diplomacy and the alignment of national policies with the UN […]
The US State Department has commended Morocco for its leading contributions to global initiatives aiming at countering terrorism, citing notably the Kingdom’s input to the Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF). “The United States and the Kingdom of Morocco are leading a global effort under the auspices of the Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF) and in partnership with […]
Morocco has bolstered its clout and soft power on the African continent with the adoption of an immigration and asylum policy based on a human rights approach seeking to guarantee to migrants in Morocco access to basic services. Since King Mohammed VI urged the government to adopt a new migration policy, Morocco has become a […]
Arab countries are facing common development challenges relating notably to rapid demographic growth, increasing demand on housing and pressure on services that require developing integrated public policies conducive to social cohesion, said King Mohammed VI. In a message to the participants in the second Ministerial Forum on Housing and Urban Development, hosted in Rabat, the […]
The Arab world group at the United Nations praised, during the emergency special session of the UN general assembly on Jerusalem held Thursday, the role of the Al-Quds Committee, under the chairmanship of King Mohammed VI, in the preservation of the Arab identity, character and demographic composition of the holy city. The emergency special meeting […]
The World Bank and Morocco signed a loan agreement worth $200 million in support of the second pillar of the Green Morocco Plan, particularly in the areas of promoting citrus and olive oil industries. The loan, signed by the World Bank and the Ministry of Economy and Finance, targets small and medium sized producers of […]
The Moroccan Phosphates company (OCP) and the Indian Krishak Bharati Limited (Kribhco) will jointly build a fertilizer production unit in Andhra Pradesh state, in southern India. The $230 million worth project, co-financed by the two part-ners, will have an annual production capacity of 1.2 million tons of NPK fertilizer (nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium). The fertilizer production […]