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Morocco’s ambitious projects and initiatives aimed at enhancing regional integration in Africa were highlighted at the 3rd G77+China Summit, convened in Kampala, Uganda, January 21-22. Morocco’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Omar Hilale, outlined, in an address before the Summit, Morocco’s efforts and initiatives to speed up regional integration in Africa. Under the leadership […]
The number of migration attempts foiled by Morocco in 2023 increased 6% year-on-year to 75,184 as the number of rescue operations at sea also grew, the interior ministry said. The same year, the Moroccan navy rescued 16,818 people, up 35%. The rescued migrants received medical assistance and accommodation in keeping with Morocco’s humane approach to […]
Morocco has launched a tender to build a waterway connecting two northern dams to ensure supply to Tangier industrial region. The project emulates the success of the waterway that carries water from the northwest to Rabat and Casablanca and which spared the two cities water cuts. Morocco is currently suffering the sixth year of drought […]
King Mohammed VI has extended an invitation to Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu to visit Morocco. The monarch extended the invitation during a phone call with the Nigerian President this Tuesday. A statement from the royal palace said the phone call focused on the development of bilateral relations between the two countries over the […]
The issue of increased duties levied on some imported Moroccan agricultural products will be resolved through dialogue and consultation between the two countries, said Mauritanian Foreign Minister Mohamed Salem Ould Merzoug. The Mauritanian top diplomat made the remarks during his talks held Monday in Rabat with Moroccan peer Nasser Bourita. Salem Ould Merzoug is visiting […]
Morocco’s phosphates producer has partnered with Moroccan mines and hydrocarbons agency ONHYM in a potash project in Khemisset, 80 km east of Rabat. OCP won two licenses covering 176 square kilometers in the area and the project is already at an advanced stage, Moroccan media reported. Resources are estimated at nearly 350 million tons in […]
Mauritania has a central role to play in Morocco’s Atlantic initiative aiming to offer access to the ocean to landlocked Sahel countries and promote regional economic integration and shared development. Morocco’s foreign minister Nasser Bourita made the remarks at a joint press conference in Rabat with his guest Mauritania’s foreign minister Salem Ould Merzoug. King […]
King Mohammed VI was represented at the official inauguration ceremony of president-elect of Liberia, Joseph Boakai, by Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rachid Talbi El Alami. The official investiture ceremony that took place at the Capitol Building (Parliament) was attended by several heads of state and foreign delegations, members of the diplomatic corps accredited […]
The Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF) deplored, Monday, “without going into the logic of the accusations” all the unsportsmanlike behaviors that followed the Morocco-DR Congo match, played on Sunday, for the 2nd day of group F of the Africa Cup of Nations (2023 AFCON-Côte d’Ivoire). In response to the controversy that followed the match, the […]
On the footsteps of their military-controlled regime, sports commentators in Algerian studios are increasingly invoking conspiracy theories to explain the failure of their national team to stand out in the African cup of nations, putting the blame as usual on Morocco. From Ennahar to Echorouk to other mouthpieces of the military regime, commentators have drawn […]