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Former chief of France’s domestic intelligence agency Bernard Squarcini has cast doubts over the veracity of the accusations targeting Morocco, saying he does not believe the allegations, claiming that the North African Kingdom had hacked cell phones of several Moroccan and foreign personalities using Pegasus spyware of Israeli NSO Group. Speaking to radio station Europe1 […]
Spanish Prime minister Pedro Sanchez will start this week an African tour designed to build up new alliances in the continent after failing to solve lingering diplomatic crisis with neighboring Morocco over the Sahara. According to press reports, Sanchez will travel to Egypt, Kenya and South Africa. Rabat has not been included in this tour, […]
The Tunisian Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi has sacked Health Minister Faouzi Mehdi over reccurring mess at the department overwhelmed by the pandemic that has stocked fear in the North African country. A statement by the Premier announced Tuesday the immediate removal of Faouzi Mehdi who was appointed in August last year. “We did an evaluation […]
Editor in chief of one of Morocco’s top news websites, Ahmed Najim, said that he was astonished when he saw his name revealed by Forbidden Stories, a consortium of 17 newspapers that released stories claiming that the Moroccan government was among those that used a potent Israeli spy software, Pegasus, to spy on journalists. Najim […]
Morocco’s economic growth will stand at 2.9% in 2022 after 5.8% expected this year, the planning agency said, noting that next year’s forecast is based on an average cereals yield. This year’s forecast is based on indicators of an improvement in domestic and foreign demand amid positive prospects for the mining, industrial and construction sectors, […]
Journalist and activist Omar Radi was given a sentence of six years in jail on the charges of rape and undermining national security. His case has created rifts within human rights groups in Morocco between leftist hardliners who consider his case as a revenge for his work and NGOs defending women’s rights who denounce rape […]
The Moroccan government has decided to tighten or re-impose a number of restrictive measures, starting Friday, July 23, following the surge of COVID-19 cases recorded these past days. Under the measures, taken in accordance with the recommendations of the Technical and Scientific Committee in view of the increasing number of contaminations and deaths recorded in […]
The United States has commended this Monday, July 19, Morocco for its collaboration in the repatriation of Abdul Latif Nasir (Abdellatif Nasser), a Moroccan citizen who had been detained at the Guantanamo Bay facility. “Abdul Nasir is the first detainee to be repatriated to his country of origin under the Biden-Harris administration,” State Department spokesman […]
The Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ) has dismantled 84 terrorist cells since it was created in 2015, said BCIJ Director Cherkaoui Habboub, underlining that Morocco continues to consolidate its status as an international strategic partner in counterterrorism. “Since its creation in 2015, the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations has managed to dismantle 84 terrorist […]
The Moroccan government has expressed its great astonishment at the recurrent and coordinated publication, since Sunday July 18, by foreign newspapers under the banner of a coalition called “Forbidden Stories”, of erroneous information in which their authors claim that Morocco has infiltrated the telephones of several national and foreign public figures and officials of international […]