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Over 180 illegal migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa broke into the six-meter fence surrounding the Spanish-occupied city in northern Morocco, Ceuta. Images broadcasted in the media show the migrants sprinting over the border from the Moroccan side Monday, in the early morning before sunrise. The migrants who reached Ceuta were eventually rounded up and taken to […]
After launching the world largest solar complex, Morocco is busy working to construct the biggest desalination plant in the globe, a landmark project to cost €309 million. The plant, to be built by Spanish company Abengoa in the city of Agadir, will be able to provide 275,000 m3 of desalinated water per day. The facility’s […]
Some senior officials of the Moroccan administration, including cabinet members, governors, and local elected representatives may be pushed to step down as a result of the serious warnings expressed by King Mohammed VI in the Throne Day speech he delivered on July 29. The royal speech appears to have sparked a wave of public administration […]
Mohammed VI of Morocco is credited for the big turnaround of the country, which is now attracting visitors and investors due to its good governance, highlighted the UK-based economic news website, Born2Invest. In an article entitled “Business lessons from King Mohammed VI of Morocco,” Olivia Mccall writes that the Monarch transformed his country from a […]
Thanks to its increasing diplomatic and economic clout, Morocco is best placed to serve as India’s bridge to French speaking Africa, Indian paper, the Business Standard, commented. Morocco, a North African nation almost touching Europe, has emerged as an “island of stability” in a volatile region, adds the paper quoting Morocco’s Ambassador to New Delhi […]
The Algeria-backed Polisario separatists have once again failed to practice their “political piracy” as they did in South Africa last May. Last week, it was in Latin America, precisely in Uruguay, that the Polisario attempted to incite a Uruguayan court to order the seizure of a 300-ton shipment of Moroccan phosphate. But, although Uruguay backs […]
Illicit cigarettes accounted for over 20% of consumption across the Maghreb region in 2016. However successful prevention strategies have resulted in a 24% decline since 2015, said the Amsterdam based professional service and auditing company KPMG in a recent study. The study, dubbed “Illicit Cigarette Trade in the Maghreb Region,” shows the 13 billion smuggled […]
A plan to set up financial incentives to attract more international filmmakers to Morocco was unveiled in Rabat with the aim of tripling investments by foreign producers in the Kingdom. Speaking at a conference, Director General of Morocco’s cinema center (CCM) Sarim Fassi Fihri underscored the plan’s beneficial impact on job creation notably in the […]
Head of the Moroccan Government, Saad Eddine El Othmani, announced that a set of measures will be taken to implement the directives laid down in the speech, delivered by King Mohammed VI on the occasion of Throne Day. In the speech, the Monarch lambasted public officials and the civil service for falling short of fulfilling […]
In defiance of the International Criminal Court (ICC) indictment, Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir flew on a private visit to Tangier in northern Morocco where he met King Salman of Saudi Arabia, who is holidaying in the city, media reports said. The Sudanese President was accompanied by a delegation of Ministers and was received at […]