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The Jersey-based company Predator Oil & Gas said on Monday it received an eight-year permit for hydrocarbon exploration and appraisal onshore northern Morocco. The exclusive license includes an initial 30-months exploration phase covering an area stretching 7,269 square km, to the east of producing gas fields and northwest of Sound Energy PLC’s Tendrara gas project. […]
The U.S. State Department has approved the sale to Morocco of 162 enhanced Abrams tanks for an estimated cost of $1.259 billion, says the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency. This military sale will support the foreign policy and national security objectives of the United States by improving the security and capacity of a major Non-NATO […]
King Mohammed VI has congratulated Moroccan football club Raja of Casablanca for winning the 2018 CAF Confederation Cup. It is the sixth CAF title for the Moroccans, who have also won the Champions League three times and the Super Cup once. The Moroccan club grabbed on Sunday this new title after defeating in Kinshasa Congolese […]
Morocco is on the list of the countries that may host the 2019 Africa Cup tournament after the Executive Committee of the African Football confederation decided that Cameroon will not host the continental tournament next June. The CAF Executive Committee said at a meeting last Friday that the situation in Cameroon was not that safe […]
Germany has called on stakeholders in the Sahara issue to have a constructive attitude at the round table to be held in Geneva December 5-6. The call was launched by German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas at the end of talks Thursday in Berlin with his Moroccan peer Nasser Bourita. The German official stressed the “paramount […]
King Mohammed VI, Chairman of Al Quds Committee of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, has renewed his firm commitment to continue defending Al Quds and the Palestinian cause until the Palestinian people obtain their independence and “set up their independent state along the lines of 4 June 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital”. In […]
King Mohammed VI’s call for Algeria to open a frank and direct dialogue to overcome divergences between the two neighboring countries continues to garner support at the international level. The support for the royal initiative was renewed on Thursday by the United Nations. “We have always been very supportive of increased dialogue between Algeria and […]
King Mohammed VI urged on Thursday the Government to refine the draft program on vocational training overhaul and to speed up the implementation of the industrial plan of Souss-Massa region. At a working session chaired by the Sovereign in Rabat to follow up the measures and actions taken to modernize the sector of vocational education, […]
The Council of the European Union adopted Thursday (Nov.29) in Brussels the new fisheries agreement with Morocco, European sources said. The council’s move comes just one day after the Committee of Permanent Representatives in the EU, known by its French acronym COREPER, approved the new fisheries agreement. The agreement needs to be ratified by the […]
Not content with its decision to close its land borders with Morocco since 1994, Algeria has just announced it deployed a barbed wire wall of nearly 6,000 km along its borders, equipped with surveillance cameras and tens of control towers. Moroccan Al Massae daily, which reported the news Thursday, commented that Algeria has sealed its […]