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Morocco’s Royal Office has issued this Monday a statement warning the Secretariat General of the Justice and Development Party (PJD) over “irresponsible excessive views and dangerous approximations” concerning Morocco’s relations with Israel,” pointing out that the instrumentalization of the Kingdom’s foreign policy in a domestic partisan agenda constitutes “a dangerous, unacceptable precedent,” and recalling that […]
London-listed Chariot, an Africa-focused transitional energy company, has completed the Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) on the key components of its flagship Anchois gas development project offshore Morocco and has alled for Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) commercial proposals. Chariot began the FEED for the Anchois development in June 2022, after raising $25.5 million, the […]
Microsoft, through its Africa Transformation Office, and Morocco’s OCP Africa announced at the 5th United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5), held in Doha, March 5-9, a partnership to support smallholder farmers and other stakeholders across Africa by 2025. OCP Africa, an African company that provides fertilizer solutions tailored to local conditions and […]
Morocco has underlined Algeria’s responsibility, as host country, to guarantee safe and unrestricted humanitarian access to the Tindouf camps and to allow free registration of the populations sequestered in the camps, in accordance with its obligations and the provisions of international humanitarian law. This was outlined in a speech delivered by Morocco’s Permanent Representative in […]
The Moroccan Royal Navy Coastguards, operating off the coast of Nador, engaged, Friday, in a chase of two suspicious boats after the latter refused to obey to the order to stop. The pursuit enabled the units of the Royal Navy to catch the two go-fast boats, equipped with very powerful engines, which were actually used […]
Morocco outperformed the rest of the Maghreb ranking first in the Global Soft Power index 2023, a ranking underscoring the country’s efforts to polish its image and expand its influence globally. Soft power refers to a nation’s ability to influence others through non-coercive means, such as culture, values, and foreign policy. Morocco came in the […]
Morocco has denounced South Africa’s complicity with Algeria and the polisario, its unconditional appropriation of Algeria’s geopolitical agenda, and its blind ideological support to the armed separatist group. This came in two letters addressed by Morocco’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Omar Hilale, to the UN Secretary General and to members of the Security […]
Morocco’s historic performance in FIFA World Cup 2022 has lifted the country’s global football status and enhanced its chances of joining the bid of Spain and Portugal to host the 2030 World Cup finals. Morocco’s Atlas Lions gained worldwide praise and respect in Qatar’s World cup tournament after eliminating Spain and then Portugal in knockout […]
Expert on Middle Eastern affairs Ehud Yaari has warned against Iran’s scheme to lay its influence and flare up wars in distant areas, mainly in North Africa and the Sahel-Sahara region, noting that the Iranians may acquire new outposts that would increase their ability to blackmail and threaten, and of course allow new jumping off […]
A pathological fixation on Morocco has been ongoing in Algerian media at the instigation of a military-run regime that made attacking Rabat its daily tactic in a failed attempt to distract a disenchanted people from its own looming financial and economic collapse. Last but not least, Algerian state-sponsored media, including once-independent TSA, revealed their superficiality […]