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Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Hervé Ladsous said he would pay a visit to Morocco this week to meet Moroccan officials and visit the headquarters of the UN mission to the Sahara, MINURSO. The announcement of this visit surprised many as the UN Secretary General’s Personal Envoy Christopher Ross saw his visit to Morocco postponed on […]
The general assembly of the International Road Safety Organization unanimously elected Morocco as a President for a four-year term. The election took place during the organization’s general assembly in Lisbon, during which Morocco was represented by permanent secretary of the national committee for the prevention of traffic accidents, Nasser Boulaajoul. This election makes Morocco the […]
International security experts have sounded the alarm that the foreign fighters enrolled in the Islamic State group in Iraq, including around 2,500 Moroccans, may be planning to return home as Iraqi authorities and international coalition forces are increasing offensives to take over the group’s stronghold of Mosul. The terrorist group is also under pressure in […]
Jane Kinninmont, the deputy head of the Middle East and North Africa program at the Chatham House think tank said that the UK should build on the Brexit in order to boost ties with the MENA region especially, Morocco and Tunisia. “The UK’s departure from the EU posed potential economic opportunities for countries such as […]
Morocco reiterated, at the UN General Assembly’s Fourth Committee, its call on Algeria to conduct a census of the population held against their will in the Polisario-run Tindouf camps, arguing that their number does not exceed 30,000. Morocco’s Permanent representative at the UN in New York, Omar Hilale, who was addressing the fourth committee, stressed […]
Rwanda will be the first stop in the new African tour by Morocco’s King Mohammed VI which will also lead him to two other eastern African countries, Ethiopia and Tanzania, Moroccan local media said. The tour will start on Tuesday with a three-day visit to Rwanda. The visit comes in response to an invitation by […]
The Royal Armed Forces conducted an operation that foiled an Algerian plan to establish a polisario separatist military presence in the southernmost tip of the Sahara, Guergarat, capturing 6 Algerian military officers and several polisario fighters. The news is relayed by Assabah daily which says that the Moroccan Armed Forces (known by the French acronym […]
Morocco’s Permanent Representative at the UN, Omar Hilale, made in New York before the UN member states a presentation on the challenges and logistical aspects relating to the organization of the global climate summit, COP22, in Marrakech on November 7-18. In this respect, Hilale shed light on the Paris Agreement, which sets the goal of […]
Spanish Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez paid tribute to Morocco for its cooperation with Spain in intelligence sharing and counter terrorism cooperation. In an interview with the magazine of the victims of terrorism (Fundacion Victimas del Terrorismo), the Spanish Minister described Morocco as a “great ally” in the fight against terrorism, expressing full satisfaction regarding the […]
US Special Envoy for Climate Change, Jonathan Pershing, will pay a four day visit to Marrakech on October 16-20 to participate in an informal ‘pre-COP’ meeting hosted by the Government of Morocco, the State department announced. The pre-COP is the last preparatory session in advance of the 22nd Conference of the Parties (COP) to the […]