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The Blaise Diagne International Airport of Dakar “AIBD” and the Moroccan steel construction company “Inter Tridim” have signed an agreement for the construction of the MRO Aeronautical Maintenance Center in Senegal, announced the AIBD. The construction works of the Aeronautical Maintenance Center of the Blaise Diagne International Airport of Dakar will start at factory in […]
The 2015 Skhirat political agreement, which laid the foundations for reconciliation between the various protagonists of the Libyan crisis, was highlighted at the International Conference on Libya, held Friday in Paris. This agreement, considered as the basic reference for any political settlement of the Libyan crisis, has been cited by French President Emmanuel Macron […]
Morocco was re-elected, in the person of Professor Hassan Ouazzani Chahdi, to the International Law Commission for the period 2023-2027, during the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly held Friday in New York. The elections were particularly competitive, with twelve candidates for nine seats allocated to African states, said the Ministry of Foreign […]
Morocco’s Foreign minister, Nasser Bourita, represented King Mohammed VI in the international conference on Libya held Friday in Paris ahead of the presidential & parliamentary elections scheduled for Dec.24 to restore stability in the country. In his address before the conference, Nasser Bourita highlighted the Moroccan King’s approach for the resolution of the Libyan crisis […]
Iranian hacker group Lyceum has launched lately a cyber-attack against an internet service provider (ISP) in Morocco, according to the findings of Prevailion’s Adversarial Counterintelligence Team (PACT) and Accenture’s Cyber Threat (ACTI) group. The attack, which was launched between July and October 2021, also targeted ISPs and telecommunication operators in Israel, Tunisia, and Saudi Arabia […]
Morocco is becoming a growingly attractive destination for global textile companies, as world’s leading textile groups are migrating from traditional Asian manufacturers to closer markets offering favorable conditions, such as Morocco. Several brands from the European Union, the UK and the U.S. have been sealing deals with Moroccan companies in the textile industry as an […]
The Moroccan Government Council has adopted a bill relating to the self-production of electric energy. The bill, presented by the Minister of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development, Leila Benali, during the Government Council held Thursday, adapts the legislative and regulatory framework governing the self-production of electric energy. It aims, in particular, to regulate the activity […]
Ciments de l’Afrique (CIMAF) a subsidiary of Morocco-based Omnium des Industries et de la Promotion (OIP) has landed a €161.5-million loan from the International Financial Corporation (IFC), French-government-owned Proparco, and Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF) earmarked to increase capacities of its grinding plants in Mali, Ghana, and to launch a state-of-the-art integrated cement plant in […]
King Mohammed VI received on Thursday at the Royal Palace of Bouznika President of the Gabon Ali Bongo Ondimba, who is on a visit to Morocco. The meeting between the two heads of state reflects the exemplary nature of Moroccan-Gabonese partnership, as well as the friendly relations binding the peoples of the two countries. The […]
Pan-African Youth Union (PJU) will have its headquarters in Rabat, under an agreement initialed Thursday between the Minister of Youth, Culture and Communication, Mohammed Mehdi Bensaid on the one hand, the President of the Union, Aliou Oumarou and the Secretary General of the PJU, Mr. Souleymane Satigui Sidibe, on the other. “The Pan-African youth is […]