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King Mohammed VI, Supreme Commander and Chief of General Staff of the Royal Armed Forces (FAR), has appointed Lieutenant General Belkhir El Farouk as FAR inspector general, said the Ministry of the Royal Household, Protocol and Chancellery in a statement. Lieutenant General El Farouk will replace Inspector General Abdelfattah Louarrak at the top of […]
The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, began, on Tuesday, consultations with members of the Security Council, in order to appoint Italian-Swedish diplomat Staffan de Mistura as his Personal Envoy for the Moroccan Sahara, MAP correspondent in New York learned from diplomatic sources. The information was confirmed to MAP by Morocco’s Permanent Representative to the UN […]
French authorities on Tuesday expressed concern about the contingency of deploying paramilitaries of the private Russian company Wagner in Mali, warning that such a deployment could prompt the withdrawal of French troops, who have been fighting jihadist groups there for eight years. News surfaced that Bamako had been in talks with the Wagner company for […]
“A large-scale operation” was carried out by the special forces of the Tarek ben Ziyad Battalion, one of the units of the forces loyal to Marshal Khalifa Haftar, “against mercenaries and Chadian opposition elements present on Libyan territory,” Libya al-Hadath TV, the media arm of Marshal Haftar, said. “Their positions were targeted in Tarbu on […]
The Algerian army is planning to flex its military muscles during a large-scale parade it will conduct in the capital city on 1st Nov. 2021 with eye on Morocco. This year’s show will be the first of its kind since the military parade organized in 1989 under the presidency of Colonel Chadli Benjedid. The provocative […]
Tunisia Tuesday bolstered its domination of the African volleyball sports as it clinched for the 11th time the title of African Men’s Volleyball Championship after beating rival Cameroon. The Tunisian men team defeated the Cameroonian squad by 3 sets to 1 in the final game at Kigali Arena. The North African giants started off on […]
The UK government has reaffirmed its strong support to the normalization of relations between Israel, Morocco, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and Sudan within the frame of the Abraham accords. “These are historic steps which see the normalization of relations between friends of the UK”, Britain’s state minister for the MENA region James Cleverly said […]
The high voters’ turnout in the Moroccan southern provinces during the general elections held on Sept.8 translates the attachment of the inhabitants of these provinces to their Moroccan identity, said Morocco’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Omar Hilale, in letters sent to the UN Secretary-General and to the President and members of the Security […]
Morocco has renewed its call on South Africa to cooperate together in order to serve the continent’s best interests. The two countries have the most diversified economies in the continent and an advanced infrastructure that enable them to extend their clout beyond their borders. They are also the two largest African investors in the continent. […]
The Central Bureau for Judicial Investigations (BCIJ) dismantled, this Tuesday morning in close collaboration with the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN), an ISIS-linked terror cell made up of three extremists aged 21, 27 and 37 who were active in the city of Errachidia. The simultaneous operations carried out by elements of the DGST Special […]