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King Mohammed VI offered a royal dinner on Thursday evening at the Mechouar Stinia-Sahrij Souani complex in Meknès in honor of the guests and participants of the 18th edition of the Salon International de l’Agriculture au Maroc. The dinner, chaired by Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch, brought together an assembly that reflected the salon’s standing as […]
Moroccan engineering firm Cegelec has secured a contract worth more than two billion dirhams to design and construct a suite of high-voltage electricity transmission and generation assets in Guinea, the company announced this week. The project, carried out through its subsidiary VINCI Energies Guinée, was launched officially on April 18 at Kamissaya in the prefecture […]
Morocco is bucking a global trend on corporate insolvencies, recording a decline in business failures at a time when the rest of the world is heading into a fifth consecutive year of rising defaults. According to a report published on April 22 by trade credit insurer Allianz Trade, Morocco’s corporate insolvencies fell two percent in […]
The 6th annual Ministerial Conference of the “AAA” initiative (Adaptation of African Agriculture), held on Wednesday in Meknes on the sidelines of the 18th International Agriculture Show in Morocco (SIAM), concluded with the adoption of a Declaration meant to boost climate-resilient Agriculture. Aware of the urgency, and following up on the resolutions of COP30 while […]
Princesses Lalla Khadija, Lalla Meryem, and Lalla Hasnaa, accompanied by Ms. Brigitte Macron, attended on Wednesday evening the opening show of the Royal Theater of Rabat, an architectural masterpiece with futuristic design which harmoniously blends traditional and modern aesthetics. The show started with a film screening on Royal Theater, an institution reflecting the cultural and […]
Improved rainfall this year reinforced Morocco’s livestock outlook in the 2025–2026 easing feed constraints, lowering production costs and strengthening one of the most structurally important components of the rural economy, according to official data, which shows that the sector now represents 35% of agricultural GDP. Cumulative rainfall increased 82.3% by the end of the winter, […]
Honduras has decided to suspend its recognition of self-proclaimed “SADR”, dealing another blow to the Algerian regime and its Polisario proxy separatist group as the UN Security Council is preparing to hold meetings on the Sahara. In a letter sent Wednesday to Moroccan FM Nasser Bourita, Honduras top diplomat described the move as a “sovereign […]
Austria expressed on Wednesday its support for the United Nations Security Council Resolution 2797 (2025) affirming that “genuine autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty could constitute a most feasible solution.” This position was set forth in a joint Communiqué adopted following a meeting in Vienna between Austria’s Federal Minister for European and International Affairs Beate Meinl-Reisinger and […]
Morocco and Sweden have signed a Memorandum of Understanding providing for upgrading security cooperation to the level of a sustainable partnership, establishing a contractual framework to strengthen mechanisms for exchanging expertise, experience, and best practices in policing. The MoU, signed during the working visit the Director General of National Security and Territorial Surveillance, Abdellatif Hammouchi, […]
A senior American official, who has conducted humanitarian missions for the State Department, has reportedly arrived at the Polisario-controlled Tindouf camps for talks with the Algeria-backed separatist group on dismantling these camps. According to press reports, State Department humanitarian officer Tabari Dossett has been assigned this mission which comes few days after the meeting held […]