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American company PPG has opened lately in Tangier, northern Morocco, its first automotive sealants production facility in Africa. The new facility confirms Morocco’s attractiveness to foreign investors and global automotive players. “This facility is an important step in providing local supply for automotive original equipment (OEM) vehicle manufacturers in Morocco,” said Roald Johannsen, PPG vice […]
The Moroccan government has laid out the priorities for the upcoming fiscal year predicting the economy to grow 3.2%. In a document outlining the breadlines of the upcoming budget, the government stressed the need to continue the large-scale reforms launched by Morocco in the wake of the pandemic, notably social reforms, public sector institutions upgrade […]
Morocco has received a first shipment of 600,000 jabs developed by Pfizer-BioNTech as it plans to expand inoculation to people aged 12, health ministry sources said. The new shipment is part of an order of about 2 million jabs of the powerful vaccine which should help safeguard gains made by Morocco’s vaccination campaign. Morocco also […]
Honduras has reiterated its support for the Moroccan autonomy initiative for the Sahara, describing it as “the only solution to the regional dispute, within the framework of Morocco’s sovereignty”. In a letter sent by the First Secretary of the Congress of Honduras, Jose Tomas Zambrano Molina, to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Nasser Bourita, Honduras […]
Israel and Morocco agreed to upgrade their liaison office into embassies in few upcoming months reflecting the growing ties between the two countries, Israel’s foreign minister Yair Lapid said. Lapid said that the upgrade will take place after Morocco’s airlines launches direct flights to Israel. The announcement has not been confirmed by Rabat yet. Speaking […]
Libya’s military prosecution office has ordered the arrest of Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi, son of former leader Muammar Gaddafi, on the charges of murder and recruitment of foreign mercenaries. The arrest warrant which circulated on social media this week, appeared to have been issued by the prosecution office deputy Mohammed Gharouda, on August 5. The arrest […]
Ennahdha, the largest party in the Tunisian parliament, set up Thursday, a local committee tasked to find solutions to the political crisis that has gripped the country after President Kais Saied suspended the legislature and seized the executive power. In a statement signed by the party’s leader Rached Ghannouchi, the Islamist movement stressed that the […]
King Mohammed VI sent a message of condolences and compassion to President Abdelmajid Tebboune of Algeria, following the forest fires which claimed several victims. In this message, the King of Morocco stated that he had learned with great emotion and deep sorrow of the news of the violent fires that ravaged forests in certain wilayas […]
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken welcomed Wednesday’s visit by Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid in Morocco as the two countries built on the normalization agreement signed last year under a US-brokered deal. Blinken in a statement called the visit, along with the reopening of the Israeli liaison office in Rabat, “significant for Israel, […]
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and Moroccan Junior Foreign Minister Mohcine Jazouli inaugurated Israel’s Liaison Office in Morocco’s capital Thursday morning, following last year’s agreement to reestablish ties between the two countries. At the ceremony, limited by COVID-19 restrictions, Lapid was accompanied by the members of his delegation, Welfare Minister Meir Cohen, a native […]