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Libyan factions’ leaders, namely President of the Libyan parliament Aguila Saleh and President of the Libyan High Council of State Khaled Al-Mishri held talks in Morocco in a bid to relaunch dialogue and find a political solution to end their country’s long-running dispute. The two officials’ meeting in Rabat highlighted Friday by agreement to implement […]
Moroccan national institute of agronomy and Israel’s Volcani center of agricultural research have agreed to enhance cooperation, exchange experiences and know-how in farming and agricultural research. The agreement was sealed on the sidelines of the 1st international conference on food production technologies from the sea & the desert held from 18 to 20 October in […]
Morocco’s OCP has donated Senegal 25,000 tons of phosphate products for the benefit of Senegalese small farmers. The products were handed over, Thursday in Diamniadio, 30 km from Dakar, at a ceremony attended by the Senegalese Minister of Agriculture, Rural Equipment and Food Sovereignty, Aly Ngouille Ndiaye, Director of OCP’s subsidiary in West Africa, Mohamed […]
Morocco, in the person of its Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Omar Hilale, has been appointed by President of the UN General Assembly, Csaba Kőrösi, to co-facilitate, with Israeli peer Gilad Erdan, the first-ever UN process of negotiation of the political declaration that will crown the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the […]
South Africa’s “gesticulations” and “agitations” around the Moroccan Sahara reflect its “inability to act on the case,” said Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita. “Rolling out a rag or a red carpet does not alter the case, but rather expresses inability to influence,” said Bourita at a press briefing in Rabat Thursday after his meeting with […]
Morocco and Germany have agreed on a €242 million cooperation program to be carried out in 2023, focusing on green energy, sustainable economy, employment and reforms. The joint program has been unveiled following talks held Oct.18-19 in Berlin between the two countries which turned a new page in their relations after resolving their diplomatic row […]
Belgium has joined the chorus of European countries that clearly support the Morocco-proposed autonomy plan, saying it considers the plan, presented in 2007, as “a good basis for a solution accepted by the parties” regarding the Sahara issue. This stance was expressed in a joint statement issued in Rabat Thursday after talks between the Belgian […]
Morocco took part in the 1st international conference on sea and desert food production technologies, held in Eilat, Israel October 18 to 20, with the participation of representatives from many countries, including 10 ministers and deputy ministers from around the world. During the conference, Director General of the National Fisheries Research Institute (INRH), Abdelmalek Faraj, […]
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has pledged to guarantee loans extended to Moroccan exporting SMEs operating in the automotive, textile, agro-industry and agricultural sectors. An agreement was signed Wednesday in Casablanca with Morocco’s Banque Centrale Populaire (BCP) to enable SMEs to get funding to modernize their operations, reduce CO2 emissions, expand working site, and increase […]
The OCP Group has inaugurated in Kaduna, Northern Nigeria, a state-of-the-art fertilizer blending plant, its first on the continent. Extending over 10 hectares, this facility houses a blending unit with a production capacity of 120 tons per hour; a 25,000-ton storage unit; a modern training center dedicated to the various partners; a laboratory equipped with […]