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Moroccan athlete Soufiane El Bakkali won the gold medal in the 3000m steeplechase this Monday (August 2nd) at the ongoing Olympic Games in Japan, giving Morocco its first medal at the Games. This is the first golden medal for Morocco since those gleaned by Hicham El Guerrouj in Sydney. El Bakkali becomes the […]
Seif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, wants to “restore the lost unity” of Libya after a decade of chaos and talks about running for president. In a rare interview with the New York Times, Seif al-Islam said that Libyan politicians have “brought nothing but misery.” “It’s time to go back […]
Algeria has retrieved the accreditation of the Saudi state-owned Al Arabiya channel, claiming it airs fake news. The Algerian Ministry of Communication said in a statement the move was motivated by “the non-respect by this channel of the rules of professional ethics” and “its recourse to disinformation and manipulation.” It is unclear what the fake […]
Morocco’s order of an additional 25 F-16C/D Block 72 fighter jets is on course of completion after the U.S. Air Force has awarded Raytheon Technologies a $212.05 million delivery order to provide fighter aircraft engines. In March 2019, the State Department approved the sale to Morocco of 25 F-16C/D Block 72 jets, built by Lockheed […]
Moroccan archeologists uncovered recently near Casablanca the oldest stone age hand-axe manufacturing site in north Africa, dating back to 1.3 million years. The discovery pushes back by hundreds of thousands of years the start date in north Africa of the Acheulian stone-tool industry, associated with the human ancestor Homo erectus, researchers said at a news […]
Morocco aims at becoming the most competitive automobile industry by 2025, Moulay Hafid Elalamy minister of Industry, Commerce and the Green and Digital Economy has announced in the wake of a new strategic agreement with French automaker Renault. The kingdom of Morocco and the French giant in the African country adopted a new strategic roadmap […]
King Mohammed VI called on Algerian President Abdelmedjid Teboune to open borders and work together, without conditions, for the development of bilateral relations based on trust, dialogue and neighborliness. Borders have been closed between the two countries since 1994, despite multiple calls by Morocco for a normalization of ties and allowing the free movement of […]
By taking a series of economic and social reforms, Morocco is best equipped to transform the crisis propelled by the COVID-19 pandemic into an opportunity, governor of Morocco’s central bank Abdellatif Jouahri said. King Mohammed VI has ordered a set of reforms that helped mitigate the impact of the crisis, said Jouahri in a […]
King Mohammed VI has praised the achievements accomplished by the North African country in the global race to secure early vaccines against covid-19 and ensure successful roll-out of the national vaccination campaign against the pandemic. In his nationwide speech made Saturday on the occasion of the Throne Day, the Monarch said: “We have every […]
King Mohammed VI of Morocco has once again reached out to Algeria, renewing his call to normalize relations between the two neighboring countries, to open borders, and to make the logic of wisdom prevail to remedy an anachronistic situation. “I reiterate my sincere call to our brothers in Algeria for us to work together, without […]