First Independent Mena Newspaper
The Rabat Appeal for the preservation of the Judeo-African heritage was signed on Monday within the framework of the second edition of the Jewish Africa Conference, held this June 13 to 15 under the theme “Past, Present and Future”. The main objective of this appeal is to preserve the Jewish-African heritage, taking as example Morocco, […]
Morocco’s central bank will hold its second meeting this year on June 21 to take key monetary policy decisions with analysts predicting the bank to increase key borrowing rates to mitigate the impact of imported inflation. Morocco has maintained the key interest rate at an all-time low of 1.5% since June 2020 to spur the […]
The US groups, Danforth Investors Global Special Projects and SEC Newgate US, have signed memorandums of understanding with the Council of the Dakhla Oued Eddahab region on the promotion of American and international investment in this region of the Kingdom. These agreements were initialed Monday in New York by the President of the Council of […]
Foreign minister of Guatemala, Mario Adolfo Bucaro Flores has welcomed Morocco’s efforts seeking to reach a political solution in the Sahara, saying the autonomy initiative presented by Rabat in 2007 is a realistic and credible step forward to resolving the conflict for the sake of stability, security and integration of the Maghreb region. “Guatemala takes […]
Algerian authorities must release immediately and drop all charges against several members of the Ahmadi minority religious group, who were arrested recently for peacefully exercising their right to freedom of religion, said Amnesty International in a press release issued over the weekend. On 6 June 2022, the First Instance Tribunal in Bejaia charged 24 members […]
The autonomy plan put forward by Morocco for a lasting resolution of the Sahara conflict continues to gain growing international support, being described as the best and pragmatic solution, while the armed Polisario militias continue to receive global condemnation for serious human rights violations and crimes committed in the Tindouf camps in Algeria. Addressing members […]
Morocco has made its first reaction to the arrest of a Moroccan young man by pro-Russian forces in Donetsk where he received the death sentence. Brahim Saadoun, aged 21, together with two Britons were indicted by a court in the self-proclaimed Donetsk Republic to the death penalty on mercenary charges. Saadoun “is imprisoned by an […]
The office of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has presented to the parliament in Ankara a request for an 18-month extension to its military mission in Libya, reports say. Turkey has had military presence in Libya since January 2020 after it signed a maritime and security deal with then ruling Government of National Accord (GNA), […]
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has considered Algeria as being a security risk for Europe in view of its using gas supplies as a means of political pressure on the continent. In a confidential report that surfaced last week, NATO estimated that Algeria is using gas supplies as a means of political pressure on […]
The first batch of vaccine production equipment from China has been delivered to Morocco Sunday. The equipment will enable the manufacturing of COVID-19 vaccines and other products in the plant newly launched in Benslimane. The shipment arrived from Shanghai, China, and will allow the assembly of the biotechnology unit in Benslimane, whose construction works were […]