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The European Union-Morocco friendship group at the European Parliament on Friday called for the implementation of the Morocco-proposed autonomy plan for the Sahara without delay, giving thus strong backing to Morocco’s position in the Sahara conflict. The support came from the group of EU lawmakers, led by Gilles Pargneaux, Rachida Dati and Stefano Maullu, just […]
Morocco’s Bureau Central d’Investigations Judiciares (BCIJ,) dubbed Morocco’s FBI, Friday nabbed in the city of Nador a terror cell planning terrorist attacks and tasked to form an Emirate in the kingdom, reports say. The terror cell made of three men, according to a statement by the interior ministry, received instructions to establish an Emirate in […]
The UN Security Council debated on Wednesday a draft resolution tabled by the United States that urges the UN Chief and Morocco to ensure that the MINURSO becomes fully operational within four months. The Draft called the UN Chief Ban Ki-Moon to find agreement with Rabat to allow the return of the civilian component of […]
American Hexcel Tuesday entered the Moroccan aeronautic market breaking ground on a new engineered core facility in MidParc Free Trade Zone Industrial Park in Casablanca, Morocco with an investment of $20 million. When fully operational in 2017, the facility will convert HexWeb® honeycomb materials into engineered core parts that are used for structural reinforcement and […]
Qatar Airways is eyeing to acquire shares at the Moroccan carrier Royal Air Maroc (RAM) to strengthen its presence on the African continent, reports say. Baker El Baker, Managing Director of Qatar Airways has reportedly said that his company would move forward to acquire between 25 and 49 per cent of RAM’s capital. “A cooperation […]
A visiting delegation of French Senators Monday lauded the Mohammed VI Institute for Imams’ training as a role-model centre for collective peace. The delegation which is on an information mission to get informed on the Moroccan experience in the training of religious officers, preachers, Imams and counsellors, visited Monday afternoon the Rabat-based Mohammed VI Institute […]
Ways of enhancing security and intelligence cooperation ties between Morocco and Gabon were reviewed Monday in Libreville at a meeting between president Ali Bongo Ondimba and Moroccan interior minister Mohamed Hassad. The meeting was attended by Head of the Moroccan Intelligence agency Mohamed Yassine Mansouri and Head of Morocco’s secret services Abdellatif Hammouchi, who is […]
Morocco and Bahrain are poised to strengthen further their relations of friendship and cooperation during the current brotherly and working visit King Mohammed VI is paying to Bahrain. The visit takes place just few days after the first Morocco-GCC summit held last Wednesday in Riyadh that sealed the strategic partnership binding Morocco to the member […]
The Belgian parliament Thursday passed a bill endorsing security cooperation between Belgium and Morocco in the wake of Brussels attacks after it surfaced that Morocco helped Belgian authorities foil an IS attack against nuclear facilities in the country planned part of the Brussels terror acts. The bill also came in the wake of an agreement […]
Morocco has called on the international community to pool efforts to implement all the provisions of the Paris Agreement on climate change and expressed hope for increased global awareness as to the need to combat the phenomenon. The call was launched by King Mohammed VI in a speech delivered at the signing ceremony of the […]