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Morocco has reiterated its position to the UN envoy Staffan de Mistura that autonomy under the kingdom’s sovereignty and territorial integrity is the only solution to the regional conflict over the Sahara. This came during talks on July 5 in Rabat between Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita and de Mistura. “The Moroccan delegation also expressed Morocco’s […]
Morocco is a “key strategic” partner of the European Union and plays a “major” role in migration management and the fight against smugglers, European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, said on Monday before the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Speaking during a plenary debate on the recent storming attempt of the metal fence in the […]
King Mohammed VI has called for more international support and cooperation to enable African countries to mitigate the impacts of the soaring inflation affecting the global economy and enhance their resilience in the face of external shocks. In a message to participants in the 2022 Meeting of the African Caucus of Finance Ministers & Central […]
Members of the Andean Parliament, led by Senate Speaker of Chile, Fidel Espinoza Sandoval, have been dazzled by the socio-economic development accomplished in the Moroccan Saharan city of Laayoune. They toured the city on the sidelines of the first ever joint session held Monday by the Moroccan and Andean Parliaments in the capital of the […]
Libya’s Minister of Oil and Gas Mohamed Aoun has accused the National Oil Corporation (NOC) Chairman Mustafa Sanalla of withholding production data, amid plans to replace the board of directors of the company. Aoun, who has been at odds with Sanalla for some time, has revealed that he has not got data on production since […]
Head of the Spanish Government Pedro Sánchez has pleaded for more solidarity with Morocco on the part of Spain and Europe to face up illegal immigration, while hailing the efforts made by the North African country to fight illegal immigration mafias. Some people “sometimes seem to think that countries like Morocco do not suffer from […]
Credit rating agency Moody’s affirmed Morocco’s outlook to stable from negative while it maintained its long-term issuer at BA1. Moody’s noted the recovery of Morocco’s real GDP to levels backed by solid crisis management capacities by the government during the pandemic, the agency said in a statement. “The improved governance track record underpins Moody’s expectation […]
Algeria’s military junta planned to use the Mediterranean games to polish the image of a country beset by authoritarianism, poverty and instability. But its hopes were crushed, as the country accumulated rebukes for its organization fiasco. In a regime that has for long politicized sports and culture, the Algerian regime denied access to nine Moroccan […]
Singaporean Minister of Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan on Monday commended Morocco for the “serious” and “credible” efforts it makes in the framework of the autonomy plan to resolve the Sahara issue. The Singaporean minister’s statement came during a joint press briefing with his Moroccan peer Nasser Bourita, after their talks in Rabat. The head of […]
King Mohammed VI of Morocco has vowed to strengthen dialogue, consultation and coordination with the United States cooperation and to contribute to preserving peace, security and stability in the world. In a message of congratulations to President Joe Biden on the occasion of the United States’ Independence Day, the King reiterated Morocco’s unshakable resolve to […]