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Morocco and Spain resumed cooperation to facilitate the crossing of 3 million Moroccans living in Europe by sea during the summer. The operation, dubbed Marhaba 2022, was halted for two years due to the pandemic amid tensions between the two countries that broke out last year. A joint statement issued following the landmark visit of […]
King Mohammed VI on Thursday launched, in Rabat, the construction works of the new Ibn Sina University Hospital Center, a futuristic project that will strengthen the Kingdom’s health offer with an over 1,000-bed capacity. This socially impacting project, requiring an investment of more than 6 billion dirhams, is part of a global vision to strengthen […]
Morocco’s exports of phosphates and derivatives doubled in the first quarter of 2022 reaching $2.4 billion against $1.3 billion reported same period last year. According to latest data published by Moroccan Exchange Control Office, the positive financial results achieved by the state-owned phosphate OCP group are due to fertilizers’ higher prices which surged from $296 […]
Fathi Bashagha, one of Libya’s Prime Ministers, has denied being the author of an article in British media The Times in which he offers to the United Kingdom (UK) his partnership to curb Russia’s influence in the oil-rich African country. In the article titled ‘Libya wants to stand with Britain against Russian aggression’ Bashagha was […]
An explosion Wednesday in a cement plant located in the Kasserine governorates, west-central Tunisia, caused injuries to 12 workers according to the first count, reports say. The tragedy occurred after a machine exploded during the production process, reports note citing labor union at the plant located in the town of Feriana. The office of the […]
Fatima Belhak, a U.S. citizen of Moroccan descent, has been awarded $3.25 million in a compensation lawsuit for a botched episiotomy when giving birth in 2014. She told The Quad-City Times that the verdict is an acknowledgment of the suffering she will deal with for the rest of her life and an injury that could […]
Brazil’s Agriculture Minister Marcos Montes is expected in Morocco this week to seek more fertilizers for his country after a halt of Russian exports, Reuters reported. Brazil relies on imports for about 85% of its fertilizer needs and is concerned about a potential global shortage of the products after Western nations imposed sanctions on key […]
A new scandal appears in the horizon for Algerian diplomacy after Maltese authorities aborted a mission to secretly repatriate Polisario officials, forcing an Algerian airlines plane to return empty, Algerian opposition media reported. “It seems that Maltese authorities had not given their go-ahead for the repatriation. Once it landed on Maltese soil, the crew of […]
The UN Security Council will reportedly appoint an African as the next special envoy of the UN Secretary General in Libya and head of the country’s U.N. political mission, UNSMIL, Italian news agency Nova has revealed citing unnamed western diplomatic sources. No names have emerged, but the news surfaced as Egypt and Russia press for […]
There is a growing international interest and investors’ interest in the Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline project that will be the world’s longest offshore pipeline to transport gas between the two countries, going through 11 other West African countries. Nigerian Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva disclosed that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) […]