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The Moroccan and Saudi Public Prosecution authorities have agreed to foster cooperation ties and exchange experiences in the fight against transnational organized crime, money laundering and cybercrimes. The agreement was inked in Rabat by President of the Moroccan public prosecutor’ Office Hassa Daki and Saudi Attorney General Saud Bin Abdallah Al-Mujab. The two countries’ public […]
The death toll among the Moroccan community in Türkiye, in the violent earthquake that struck the south of the country, has now reached ten, the Kingdom’s embassy in Ankara said Monday. Four new victims, all women, have died in this earthquake, said the diplomatic mission. On February 6, Turkiye and Syria woke up to one […]
Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares has affirmed that Morocco remains “the first priority” of his country’s foreign policy, stressing the need to maintain good relations with the North African Kingdom. Speaking during a forum held Monday in Madrid on the occasion of the upcoming Spanish presidency of the European Union, Albares said all Spanish […]
Amid rising prices, Moroccan authorities have been inspecting markets to make sure supply and prices are appropriate while taking measures to curb exports of main vegetables ahead of Ramadan. Reuters reported Morocco ordered a halt of tomatoes, potatoes and onion exports to West African markets to ensure food security at home. The prices of the […]
Chairman of French Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, Christian Cambon, has denounced the recent vote by the Macronist members of the European Parliament of a resolution undermining Morocco’s judicial sovereignty and independence. In a press release, Mr. Cambon, who also chairs France-Morocco Friendship Group in the French Senate, decried the vote of French MEPs who supported […]
The Civil Coalition for the Protection of Children in the Tindouf Camps, which includes more than 120 NGOs, sounded the alarm bell over the alarming situation of Moroccan children sequestered in the Polisario-controlled Tindouf camps, noting that the Algeria-backed separatist group recruits thousands of children, exploits them sexually, enslaves them and forces girls to marry […]
Spain has handed ownership of the 106-year-old Cervantes theatre to Morocco after a long shutdown in return for its restoration. The ownership of the theatre was handed to Morocco following a decision of the Spanish government in return for maintaining the Spanish cultural character of the monument. Another condition includes the creation of a Spanish […]
Morocco’s permanent representative to the UN, Omar Hilale, highlighted, on the occasion of a high-level meeting at the UN headquarters in New York, the courageous and heroic act of the late King Mohammed V, through the protection provided to Moroccans of Jewish confession, during the Second World War, against the brutal and barbaric Nazi regime […]
The Kingdom of Morocco is currently enduring systematic attacks by the European Union Parliament, and these attacks go beyond the ordinary political and diplomatic engagement between states and institutions, underlines former congressman Michael Flanagan in an analysis published by US magazine Newslooks. “These attacks amount to direct interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states,” […]
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has recently approved a €201,000 grant to Morocco, through its Technical Assistance Fund for Middle-Income Countries, with the objective of providing the government with technical assistance for studies on the design of dams, river development and inter-basin interconnection studies. The assistance, destined to the Directorate of Hydraulic Development of the […]