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Chariot energy Company has signed an agreement with Vivo Energy Maroc firm on future natural gas offtake from the Loukos Onshore license in which the British company holds 75% stake, while Moroccan National Office of Hydrocarbons and Mines (ONHYM) has 25 %. In a press release issued Monday, Chariot said the aim of the agreement […]
The Moroccan men’s beach volleyball team qualified, on Sunday, for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, after winning the African championship held in Martil, northern Morocco. The Moroccan team, composed of Zouheir Elgraoui and Mohamed Abicha, retained their African title by beating Mozambique in the final with two sets to zero (21-18, 21-12). The Moroccan […]
Morocco and the United States have launched in New York the Group of Friends on Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Development. The group, launched by Morocco’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Omar Hilale, and his U.S. counterpart, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, held its first meeting at ambassadorial level at the headquarters of the U.S. Permanent Mission in New […]
Algeria’s president Abdelmadjid Tebboune was invited to the latest G7 summit held in Italy due to the pressure exerted by French President Emmanuel Macron, says a London-based think-tank in its latest report. If, as expected, French party Rassemblement National (RN) wins upcoming snap parliamentary elections and takes control of the government, it will almost certainly […]
The United States is “grateful to Morocco for their regional leadership”, said U.S. State Department spokesperson, Matthew Miller following a phone call between Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nasser Bourita. Mr. Blinken had a “productive discussion” with Mr. Bourita, the spokesperson stated in a post Friday on X (formerly known […]
Morocco rejected the foreign interferences in the domestic affairs of Sahel countries, which do not need a tutor in managing their internal issues. The remark was made by foreign minister Nasser Bourita following talks in Rabat with his Burkinabe peer Karamoko Jean-Marie Traoré. Bourita denounced « meddling by some European countries as well as a […]
Burkina Faso reaffirmed its full support for the initiative launched by King Mohammed VI aiming to help landlocked Sahel states access the Atlantic Ocean and global trade. Burkina Faso’s foreign minister Karamoko Jean-Marie Traoré said following talks in Rabat with his Moroccan counterpart Nasser Boourita. Traore described the initiative as embodying south-south cooperation in line […]
The Executive committee of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) announced Friday the dates of Africa’s most popular and competitive football competition, the CAF TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) which will be hosted by Morocco. The final phases of the 35th edition of AFCON-2025 Morocco, will thus take place from 21 December 2025 to […]
The growing international community’s support for Morocco’s Autonomy plan offered for the Sahara under its sovereignty, marks a milestone for Moroccan diplomacy in addressing the long-standing Sahara regional conflict, says Modern Diplomacy magazine in its latest issue. In an Op-Ed titled:”The Autonomy Plan: Is it the Endgame for the Moroccan Sahara?”, scholar Jamal Ait Laadam […]
Morocco’s government debt is sustainable as efforts are ongoing to cut it further below 70% of GDP, finance minister Nadia Fettah Alaoui said. The minister made the remark during an interview on le360, following criticism by opposition MPs who warned of the risk of debt unsustainability. Debt to GDP ratio was brought below 70% this […]