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Coventry University will open in the few coming months a new branch campus in Casablanca suburb in Morocco. The Bouskoura campus is expected to start receiving students in September, after getting final approval. It intends to offer courses in engineering, architecture and business. The Bouskoura campus follows the model of Coventry University hub in Egypt, […]
King Mohammed VI has proposed the setting up of an African Institute for Lifelong Learning to strengthen South-South coordination and cooperation in the field of adult learning and lifelong education. The suggestion was made in the message he addressed to the UNESCO’s Seventh International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA VII), held in Marrakech under the […]
The Spanish government’s support to Morocco’s autonomy plan for the Sahara is a “good decision for Spain and for the whole Mediterranean region”, stressed Spanish Defense Minister María Margarita Robles on Tuesday. By supporting autonomy as “the most serious, realistic and credible basis” for resolving this dispute, the government “has taken the best decision for […]
Chad’s President Mahamat Idriss Déby has vowed to curtail the gold smuggling business depriving his country weekly of around $91 million in the advantage of Libya. The head of the Chadian Transitional Military Council who took over from his father General Idriss Deby killed in April last year, told State radio that the shady business […]
The Tunisian government announced Tuesday the death of the spouse of Interior Minister Taoufik Charfeddine who died of wounds she suffered when a gas canister exploded last month in the kitchen of their residence. Nasreddine Ncibi, spokesman for the government indicated that she succumbed to injuries after she was burned in the deadly incident. She […]
Vice president of the Laayoune-Sakia El Hamra Region, M’hamed Abba highlighted, Monday in New York, the international momentum of support for the autonomy plan presented by Morocco to settle the dispute over the Sahara. “The issue of the Moroccan Sahara lives at the pace of a positive development both at the UN level and […]
Morocco’s permanent representative to the UN, Omar Hilale, said, Monday in New York, that Algeria kidnaps and tortures the sequestered populations of the Tindouf camps, which it is supposed to protect. “The United Nations Human Rights Committee has just published today a statement on a Sahrawi whom you abducted, kidnapped and tortured. He has […]
The support of the Spanish government for the Moroccan autonomy initiative for the Sahara constitutes a “coherent and respectful position of international law”, affirmed, on Monday, the Spanish Secretary of State for Foreign and Global Affairs, Angeles Moreno Bau. By supporting autonomy as being “the most serious, realistic and credible basis” for the resolution of […]
Morocco exposed, Tuesday in Paris, the links between separatist and terrorist groups and the states proliferating weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in the Mediterranean. During a meeting of the Mediterranean Initiative, organized by France and Germany within the framework of the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), Morocco stressed the need to take stock of the evolution […]
Two members of the Moroccan blue helmets of the MINUSCA mission died in the Central African Republic, the UN mission announced on Twitter, without disclosing their identity. The two Moroccan blue helmets, who were part of the peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic, died on June 12 in Bangassou in the east of the […]