First Independent Mena Newspaper
The new government led by the PJD’s Saad Eddine El Othmani won a vote of confidence in the Moroccan Parliament ending a six-month long post-electoral deadlock that left the country without a government. Moroccan MPs approved the new governmental coalition by 208 votes in favor and 91 votes against, while forty deputies abstained. Speaking to […]
An International conference on Micro & Nano-Satellites will be held at “Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique (CNRST)” in Rabat, Morocco’s capital city, May 2-3 to discuss latest innovations in this high-tech industry. The MNSAT event will be attended by experts from major aerospace industries like IEEE Aerospace, Surrey Space Center and much […]
On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the release of the movie “Casablanca” which marks the struggle against fascism, the heroic acts of Sultan Mohammed V of Morocco in protection of the Moroccan Jewish community against anti-Semitic measures imposed by the French Vichy government were highlighted by the Los Angeles Times. In an op-ed […]
The UN Security Council Tuesday asked the Polisario separatist front to pull out immediately its forces from the Guerguarat buffer zone, in the southernmost tip of the Sahara, after it ignored another call by the UN Chief earlier this month, le360.ma portal reports citing a UN source. “There was near-unanimity at the Security Council to […]
Catalonia security forces, Mossos d’Esquadra, announced Tuesday the arrest of nine terrorists including eight Moroccan nationals in the province of Barcelona in a large counter-terrorism operation expanded to the kingdom of Morocco. The terrorists, all men, were arrested thanks to the collaboration with citizens who helped investigators identify the men operating in different locations of […]
The Strait of Gibraltar is the venue of the Jebel Tarik 2017 joint military training between Morocco’s parachutist brigade, the Moroccan Deuxieme Brigade d’Infanterie Parachutiste (2BIP) and the Royal Gibraltar Regiment. FAR-Maroc, a website specializing in military issues, said that a second military exercise will take place in the region of Marrakech in the Middle […]
Morocco has been shown as one of the few countries with a low presence of Salafism in a map published on the Geopoliticalfutures.com website. Morocco together with Lebanon, Qatar and Bahrain were painted light green in the map where the majority of Arab countries have been painted red or brown standing respectively for high and […]
Morocco’s Foreign Ministry summoned Algeria’s ambassador in Rabat and denounced the expulsion of 54 Syrian migrants by Algerian authorities to the Moroccan border town of Figuig as an “inhumane behavior”. During the meeting, the Foreign Ministry expressed concern at the expulsion by Algeria of Syrians undergoing vulnerable conditions. “It is immoral and unethical to manipulate […]
KLM ‘s low-cost arm Transavia said it will add four new air routes to Morocco in 2017 bringing the total number of flights served by the airline towards the Kingdom to 19. The company said that the four new routes are Marrakech-Eindhoven, Tangier-Paris Orly, Oujda-Lyon and Dakhla-Paris. The new flights will enable the airline to […]
Morocco and Cuba have ushered a new era by restoring their diplomatic ties and turning the page of 37 years of severance on the backdrop of Havana’s alignment on the Polisario separatist thesis. The re-establishment of diplomatic ties was announced following a meeting between the heads of the permanent missions of the two countries at […]