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Iraq’s Foreign Minister Ibrahim Al-Jaafari invited Morocco to re-open its embassy in Baghdad to promote bilateral ties and facilitate visas for Iraqi nationals. Al Jafaari’s office said the call was made at a meeting with State Secretary to foreign affairs Mounia Bouceta at an Arab League meeting in Egypt. He expressed Iraq’s willingness to cooperate […]
RWG has won a three-year contract to ship gas-fired generators to Metragaz S.A.’s facilities in Morocco. Metragaz, a division of Spain’s Naturgy Energy Group, provides gas compression services for the Maghreb-Europe Gas Pipeline. Under the contract, RWG will build, configure and ship exchange gas generators to Metragaz in advance of scheduled overhauls and recommissioning in […]
The Government of Bulgaria has hailed the “serious efforts” made by Morocco with a view to reaching a “lasting and just solution” to the Sahara issue through negotiations under the auspices of the United Nations and in line with Security Council Resolutions. “We encourage the parties to the conflict to cooperate more” in order to […]
The European Union and Morocco inked on Friday two agreements aimed at supporting Moroccan small & medium enterprises (SMEs), including start-ups working on innovation as well as the country’s social protection program. The agreements, related to the EU-funded programs: “Competitiveness & green growth” and “social protection reform in Morocco”, were sealed during the visit European […]
Morocco’s FBI, the Central Bureau for Judicial Investigations (BCIJ), issued an international arrest warrant that led to the arrest of drug lord Victor Manuel Lemina Cores in Lima. Lemina Cores, a Spanish national, notorious for running one of the mightiest drug trafficking networks, was arrested by Interpol on September 11 in the Peruvian capital Lima. […]
Morocco’s phosphates company saw its revenues grow by 15% in the first half of the year to 26,599 million dirhams ($2.86 billion). Revenues increased from 23,152 million dirhams last year as the company continues to invest in Africa where it plans the setting up of fertilizer plants in Ethiopia and Nigeria. “This sales growth was […]
The Government of Romania has praised the serious and sustained efforts made by Morocco in a bid to reach a definitive and lasting solution to the Sahara issue, saying it fully supports a “political solution” to this regional conflict. Bucharest voiced this stand in a press release issued after talks between Minister of Foreign Affairs […]
Spanish Association “La Libertad es su derecho” has denounced the abduction and confinement of dozens of Sahrawis women in Tindouf camps, Southern Algeria, by the Polisario separatist front. Members of this Association were received lately in Madrid by Spanish Secretary of State to Foreign Affairs Fernando Martín Valenzuela who was briefed on the plight and […]
As soon as a law criminalizing violence against women has entered into force this week, already three complaints were filed by women claiming to have been harassed. The law, passed last February, includes a ban on forced marriage, sexual harassment in public places, and tougher penalties for certain forms of violence. Although it has been […]
Casablanca Finance City (CFC) has leapt four places in the Global Financial Centers Index 24 (GFCI24) taking the 28th position. CFC outperformed Seoul, Taipei and Doha ranking the fourth best financial hub in the MENA region behind Dubai, Tel Aviv and Abu Dhabi. At the international level, New York has overtaken London as the world’s […]