First Independent Mena Newspaper
The “Independent Commission for Human Rights” and “Africa Culture International” organized in Geneva on Wednesday September 22, a conference on “Violations of human rights in Tindouf Camps” on the sidelines of the ongoing 48th session of the Human Rights Council. Several international human rights activists and representatives of civil society took part in the conference […]
The United States government has reaffirmed its strong commitment to advance the reform agenda spearheaded by King Mohammed VI of Morocco to speed up the progress and socioeconomic development of the North African Kingdom. The supportive stand was voiced Wednesday by the U.S. State Department on the occasion of the visit of a high-level […]
Head of the RNI party Aziz Akhannouch said his party, the PAM and the Istiqlal agreed to join efforts to form the new government after they emerged as the largest three winners of Sept. 8 elections. The RNI won parliamentary elections with 102 seats followed by PAM with 87 seats and the Istiqlal with 81 […]
Former Spanish foreign minister Arancha Gonzalez Laya will stand before a judge in Zaragoza for her role in violating Spanish and Schengen laws by allowing the entrance of a Polisario leader in secrecy in an attempt to help the Algerian proxy evade Spanish justice. The military officials in charge of allowing flights into the airport […]
Morocco reiterated its call for Libyan parties to hold December 24 elections and maintain the well-functioning of state institutions. The call was reiterated by foreign minister Nasser Bourita who was speaking at a news conference with head of Libya’s higher state council Khaled Mechri. Bourita reaffirmed Morocco’s support for dialogue between Libyan parties in order […]
The Socialist Union of Popular Forces (USFP), which gained 34 of the 395-seat parliament in the elections held Sept.8 in Morocco, has decided to join the parliamentary opposition. The decision was announced Tuesday by the party’s political bureau without giving explanations as the USFP first secretary, Driss Lachgar, has voiced readiness of his political formation […]
A “Pact for the modernization of trade and investment between the European Union and the Kingdom of Morocco” has been adopted Tuesday by Business Europe, the Moroccan Employers’ Association (CGEM) and EuroCham Morocco. The document calls for a long-overdue modernization of the framework for EU-Morocco trade and investment relations, capable of unlocking the untapped economic […]
Spanish foreign minister José Manuel Albares will hold a virtual meeting on Wednesday with his Moroccan peer Nasser Bourita to discuss bilateral relations, regional issues and relations with the European Union, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. The announcement was made Tuesday by Spanish news agency EFE. This high-level meeting will be first […]
Morocco has been elected to the presidency of the Center for Mediterranean Integration (CMI) for the period 2021-2024, the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Administration Reform and the World Bank Group announced. “As part of the governance reform of the Center for Mediterranean Integration (CMI) now providing for a rotating presidency among the member countries […]
Morocco’s OCP Group and the Ethiopian government have signed an agreement to develop a fertilizer plant in gas-rich Dire Dawa in northern Ethiopia, for a total investment of up to $3.7 billion dollars, as announced by the Ethiopian Ministry of Finance. A visiting Ethiopian delegation led by the country’s Minister of Finance, Ato Ahmed Shide, […]