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At a time most of the MENA region countries chose the status quo to tackle the crises rolling out of the Arab Spring, Morocco opted for a social contract that safeguards stability through credible reforms, coupled with measures to uproot extremism, the Australian newspaper highlighted. King Mohammed VI brought a new social contract by choosing […]
Speaker of the Lower House of the Moroccan Parliament, Habib El Malki, welcomed the draft report submitted by the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to the Security Council calling for an immediate retreat of the Polisario militias from the buffer strip and warning of the degrading humanitarian conditions prevailing in Tindouf. “Antonio Guterres expressed concerns […]
Following his private trip to Cuba, King Mohammed VI flew to Miami where he will hold his first talks with US President Donald Trump, French speaking magazine, Jeune Afrique, reported. Jeune Afrique learned from sources at the Royal palace that President Trump would offer a dinner in honor of the Moroccan Monarch on Sunday. The […]
Moroccan National Security authorities announced Thursday they were handed over by Turkish authorities the fourth suspect in the assassination of lawmaker Merdas killed in his car early last month. The suspect according Security is the nephew of the main suspect; a municipal authority, lover of Abdellatif Merdas’s wife. The man was arrested in Turkey where […]
Moroccan security services announced Wednesday the arrest of seven members of the terrorist organization Isis. The cell was active in the northern city of Fez and nearby town of Moulay Yacoub. Its members were busy working to recruit volunteers for the extremist group. According to Moroccan interior ministry, the police seized bladed weapons, military uniforms, […]
Control Risks, the specialist risk consultancy, issued its 2017 RiskMap showing that Morocco continues to maintain its standing as the safest country for business and travel in North Africa. Morocco was the only country to be given a low security risk status in Riskmap, the leading guide to political and business risk and an important […]
The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called on the Polisario to immediately withdraw from the Guerguarat area in the buffer strip in the southernmost tip of the Sahara. In his report to the UN Security Council members, Gueterres expressed deep concern regarding the presence of Polisario militiamen in the buffer strip warning that the situation […]
Horst Kohler, former German President (2004-2010), is said to be named to succeed outgoing UN Secretary General’s Personal Envoy for the Sahara, Christopher Ross. Algerian news outlet, TSA, quoted diplomatic sources saying that Horst Köhler will most likely replace the US diplomat Christopher Ross, whose tenure has expired after eight years of mediation that left […]
King Mohammed VI stressed the need for a south-south cooperation approach in Africa to mainstream good governance at the institutional, economic and societal level as a bulwark against “afro-pessimism”. The call was made in a speech read out on the Monarch’s behalf by Royal Advisor André Azoulay at the Governance Weekend held in Marrakech by […]
Credit rating agency, Fitch, affirmed Morocco’s long-term foreign and local currency issuer default ratings (IDRs) at ‘BBB’ with a Stable Outlook. Fitch explained that Morocco’s BBB rating was driven by its economic performance, public finance and external finance metrics. “Economic policy focuses on maintaining macroeconomic stability and is unlikely to change much as a result […]