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Maroc Telecom, Morocco’s largest telecom operator, said that it invested €6 billion over the last decade in modernizing telecommunication infrastructure in the African continent. Speaking to the press following talks with Côte d’Ivoire’s president in Abidjan earlier this week, head of Maroc Telecom management board, Abdesslam Ahizoune, said that the company is planning to expand […]
Security and defense cooperation featured prominently in the 11 cooperation agreements that were signed on the occasion of the visit of Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev to Morocco. A well-informed source told Moroccan media that the country is interested in acquiring the mighty S-400 air defense systems from Russia. After months of media speculation about […]
Two weekly flights will link Morocco to Hungary as of October 30 as the north African Kingdom aspires to attract 30,000 Hungarian tourists by 2018 and 100,000 by 2020. In a statement to the press, director of Morocco’s tourism promotion office (ONMT) Abderrafie Zouitene said that Morocco and Hungary will be linked by two flights […]
Siemens has inaugurated the first Turbine Blade Factory in the northern Moroccan city of Tangier that was completed for a total cost of $118 million. Built over a surface area of 37,500 square meters, the new factory is the first of its kind in North Africa and the Middle East and will offer 600 jobs […]
Morocco and Russia signed 11 cooperation agreements in the fields of customs, agriculture, trade, energy efficiency, renewable energies, nuclear energy as well as military cooperation. The agreements were signed at a Moroccan-Russian working session chaired by Head of the Government Saad Eddine EL Othmani and Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev who paid an official working […]
The Moroccan government has described as “irresponsible” Catalonia’s unilateral secessionist move and renewed its strong backing to Spain’s sovereignty, national unity and territorial integrity. “Morocco rejects the unilateral process of the independence of Catalonia, and voices its attachment to the sovereignty, national unity and territorial integrity of Spain”, said a statement issued Wednesday by the […]
The 4th Committee of the UN General Assembly adopted without a vote a draft resolution reiterating support for the UN Secretary General and his Personal Envoy in their efforts to resolve the Sahara dispute through a consensual solution. The resolution supports the negotiation process initiated by resolution 1754 (2007) of the Security Council and backed […]
Since the first visit to Moscow by King Mohammed VI in 2002, Morocco and Russia have been working together to deepen their strategic partnership and expand their cooperation to new areas including energy and new industries. The visit by Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev to Morocco, which comes after the visit paid by King Mohammed VI […]
The fourth Moroccan-Russian Business Forum, held in Rabat on the eve of an official visit by Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev to Rabat, prospected opportunities to further boost trade between the two countries in the agricultural sector as well as new fields such as energy, the car industry, pharmaceutical industry, infrastructure, construction and new technologies. […]
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian pointed out that only sovereign states are entitled to participate in the EU-Africa Summit, to be held in Abidjan, thus making it clear that France rejects categorically the attempts by separatist proponents to impose the participation of the separatist SADR entity. The Minister said Monday in Rabat at a […]