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Morocco received 10 million tourists up to July this year, a record, as the country expects to outperform last year’s arrivals, the finance ministry said. Arrivals in the first seven months were 15% up compared to the same period last year, it said. In the month of July alone, 2.6 million people visited Morocco, up […]
The 50th session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), held in Yaoundé, has recognized and praised the Atlantic initiative launched by King Mohammed VI. The initiative, which seeks to strengthen cooperation and integration among African countries along the Atlantic coast, was lauded as a significant step toward enhancing […]
Kenya’s first ambassador to Morocco, Ms. Jessica Muthoni Gakinya, was received Friday in Rabat by Moroccan foreign minister Nasser Bourita. During the meeting, the Kenyan envoy handed over copies of her credentials to the minister, sending a strong message to the Algerian regime which has spent billions of dollars in a bid to thwart rapprochement […]
Morocco will share its railway expertise with Senegal under cooperation agreements signed Thursday in Rabat by the two countries’ national railway operators and training centers. The signing ceremony was co-chaired by Morocco’s Minister of Transport Mohammed Abdeljalil and Senegal’s peer Malick Ndiaye. The two ministers lauded the strong ties existing between the two countries and […]
Determined to flee the worsening conditions in their country, an increasing number of Algerian nationals take advantage of visa free entry to Morocco to try illegal migration attempts to the Spanish occupied city of Ceuta, Moroccan media noted. Over the past few years, thousands of Algerians take the risky Mediterranean crossing to Spain with scores […]
Morocco will start a nationwide census on September 1-30 to gather comprehensive data on the country’s demographics, economic conditions, and social trends, officials from Morocco’s high commission for planning HCP said. About 50,000 people will gather information from households in a headcount that would cost 147 million dollars, officials said at a press conference. This […]
Côte d’Ivoire’s economic hub Abidjan is currently hosting a pivotal regional workshop aimed at reviewing the Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) and the Host Country Agreement (HGA) for the Nigeria-Morocco Africa-Atlantic Gas Pipeline project. This crucial event, which runs until August 30, brings together experts and representatives from several West African countries alongside a Moroccan delegation. The […]
Two Moroccan nano-satellites, “UM5-EOSAT” and “UM5SAT-RIBAT”, have been launched lately by SpaceX on Falcon 9 rocket from U.S. Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The launch of these two first satellites, weighing each 4kg, is the culmination of a long scientific cooperation set between Mohammed V University in Rabat, the National Centre for Scientific & […]
Mehdi Ghezzar, Algerian commentator with French radio RMC and head of Tebboune’s electoral campaign in France, spit his venom while speaking on the Algerian mouthpiece AL24, describing Morocco in derogatory terms while proffering antisemitic remarks. The derogatory remarks cost him his position at RMC, which officially announced that it will terminate his participation in a […]
Australian company Worley has announced that its Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) work on a green ammonia project in Morocco will be launched in the third quarter of 2024. In its annual report released Tuesday, Worley said the Tarfaya project, the world’s first Power-to-X green ammonia program, includes a transmission grid, hydrogen and ammonia plants and […]