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Interdependence between peace-security and development should feature high in China-Africa partnership, said Monday in Addis Ababa President of the African Union Peace & Security Council Mohamed Arrouchi. Arrouchi who is Morocco’s permanent representative to the AU and UNECA made the statement at a seminar, held under the theme, “Sustaining Traditional Friendship: Achievements and prospects […]
Moroccan anti-terrorism agency, BCIJ, recently unveiled the hideout where a recently dismantled terrorist cell was trying to make explosives. The five members of the cell were arrested last week in Berkane and Nador in northeastern Morocco. BCIJ found that the group was training on making explosives in the mountainous area of Imchtassen in the province […]
A Dutch football legend has advised the Dutch football association, KNVB, to cease training young players of Moroccan descent over the case of young talent Mohammed Ihattaren now at the center of a showdown between Morocco and the Netherlands. Former AC Milan magic maker, Ruud Gullit, told Ziggo Sport TV channel that should Ihattaren play […]
Moroccan dental Professor Ihsane Ben Yahya has been named president-elect of the International Dental Federation (FDI) during its General Assembly held Sept.8 in San Francisco, USA. Ben Yahia has been an FDI Council member since 2013. She will serve a two-year term before assuming the FDI presidency in 2021. “I will spare no effort to […]
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is preparing to appoint a new personal envoy for the Sahara in replacement of German Horst Köhler, 76, who resigned from his post on May 22nd 2019 “for health reasons”. According to diplomatic sources cited by le360.ma web site, the UN chief has not so far submitted any name to […]
At least eleven people were killed when their bus was swept away by a river near Errachidia in eastern Morocco, official media said. The victims were among the 51 passengers on board the bus linking Casablanca to the town of Raissani, north of Errachidia. Many others are feared dead according to local media which add […]
There is no exaggeration in saying that Morocco will play an increasingly important role in the world’s food security as the country sits on the globe’s largest phosphates deposits, key to the fertilizers’ industry. Modern agriculture has become more than ever dependent on phosphorus derived from phosphate rock, a non-renewable resource. Morocco as the country […]
Morocco and Switzerland signed an agreement to cooperate on transport infrastructure as the North African country prepares to extend the-high-speed-train link south of Casablanca. The agreement was signed by Moroccan transport minister, Abelkader Amara, and his Swiss counterpart, Simonetta Sommaruga, Friday in Switzerland. The Swiss minister expressed her country’s willingness to help Morocco with its […]
Morocco is set on diversifying its tourist emitting markets with the signing with Chinese tour operator, C Trip, of an agreement that could bring 500,000 tourists annually. The North African country has attracted 12.3 million tourists in 2018 making it the largest African tourism market as it has become the 30th most visited country […]
The African continent needs heavy funding to boost its economic development, said Moroccan Minister Delegate for African Cooperation, Mohcine Jazouli at the World Economic Forum on Africa held in Cape Town, South Africa Sept.4-6. Africa also needs a major investment and production to set up a sustainable industrial hub capable of creating jobs and […]