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Morocco and Senegal, two Atlantic African coutries with a time-honored friendship and cooperation are offering Africa a concrete example proving the farsightedness of south-south cooperation based on solidarity and co-development. On Sunday, a new milestone was hit in Moroccan-Senegalese relations with the speech delivered in Senegal’s capital, Dakar, by King Mohammed VI, in which he […]
Morocco has been attracting eminent Hollywood movie makers who look for a safer environment to shoot feature movies in a Middle Eastern setting, said CNN in a report that highlights the attractiveness of Morocco and its advanced cinema infrastructure. “Morocco offers a solution to the Hollywood studios who want to shoot films that are set […]
Morocco has officially taken over the presidency of the 22nd Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP22) Monday as the global conference kicked off in the city of Marrakesh. At the opening ceremony of the 22nd Conference of Parties to the Framework UN Convention on Climate Change, COP 22, […]
King Mohammed VI has pointed out that Morocco needs a serious, responsible government, up to the challenges facing the country and that the future cabinet should not be the result of calculations aimed at fulfilling political parties’ wishes. This came in the speech the Monarch addressed to the nation Sunday evening on the occasion of […]
Morocco’s return to the African Union does not mean changing the Kingdom’s unwavering position regarding the Sahara issue and its territorial integrity, King Mohammed VI said in the Green March speech, delivered from Senegal’s capital Dakar on Sunday evening. “Morocco’s return to its continental institutional family will not change our unwavering position regarding the Moroccan […]
The Bundesrat, the upper house of the German Parliament, has refused to classify Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia as “safe countries of origin”, which entails that migrants from the three Maghreb countries cannot be deported. The UK paper, the Daily Express, reported that Thomas de Mazière described the Bundesrat decision as “incomprehensible” after the lower parliament […]
King Mohammed VI of Morocco will chair, on November 15, the COP22 summit which will be attended by at least 50 heads of state. The event will be attended by French President François Hollande whose country hosted COP21 and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin in addition to […]
Since its creation in 2015, Morocco’s Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ), (a version of US Federal Bureau of Investigation), has dismantled 37 terror cells and captured a total of 485 suspects including 275 in 2015, according to press reports. These figures show the achievements made by BCIJ in its tireless war waged against Islamic […]
A new momentum was added to Morocco’s Africa foreign policy with the recent eastern African tour undertaken by King Mohammed VI to Rwanda and Tanzania. This impetus will be strengthened with another Royal visit to two longstanding friends of Morocco in western Africa, namely Gabon and Senegal. The news was related by the Arabic speaking […]
Enhanced security measures were taken by Moroccan security services under the direct supervision of Abdellatif Hammouchi, head of Morocco’s domestic intelligence agency (DGST), in Marrakech in prevision of the Climate Summit COP22, said Morocco’s daily, Al Ahdath. The Moroccan police (DGSN) prepared 10,000 of its members to ensure the security of the climate summit, according […]