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Several high-level security meetings were held on Monday June 14 in Tripoli to try to put an end to the clashes that have been taking place since Thursday in Ajaylat, a town located 90 km west of the Libyan capital. The clashes resulted in eight casualties, including civilians. The Presidential Council, the authority that runs […]
The Arab League holds this Tuesday, June 15, in Doha, Qatar, an extraordinary meeting of Foreign ministers on the Ethiopian Great Renaissance Dam. Sudan and Egypt requested the holding of this emergency meeting as they want to warn of the “risk” Ethiopia’s unilateral actions pose to the region, since trilateral talks stall. A former adviser […]
Morocco after taking a leap of faith in betting on its agribusiness sector is reaping the fruits with thousands of jobs created and sizeable revenues generated, despite standing challenges including fierce competition on the international markets. In 2014 and 2017, the kingdom through respectively a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and program contract agreements signed with […]
The Algerian army will deploy in Mali where France is preparing a military base for the Algerian soldiers, says London-based consultancy & business intelligence center, Menas Associates, citing a reliable source and photographic evidence. The Algerians will be deployed at Hombori base, 247 km southwest of Gao, on the front line of the Sahel’s Three […]
Hungary’s Foreign Ministry has posted, Monday, on its official website, the joint Moroccan-Hungarian declaration which was adopted at the end of the visit paid by Hungarian FM Peter Szijjarto to Morocco last week. In this document, Hungary supports the Morocco-proposed autonomy plan for the Sahara and commends the development efforts undertaken by Morocco in the […]
The African Union, AU, is counting on the Moroccan Tanger Med Port to achieve the logistics integration of the continent, a key objective of African Continental Free Trade Area agreement CFTA. Tanger Med Port is awash with opportunities for the continent, said Wamkele Mene, Secretary General of the CFTA Secretariat. Speaking during a recent online […]
The industrial production of cannabis in Morocco as recently approved by the legislature will generate a lot of opportunities for other industries, experts have told Le360.ma. The North African country last month joined the group of countries which decriminalized the growing of cannabis. 119 lawmakers approved the move which has been in the pipeline for […]
Morocco’s phosphates and fertilizer producer OCP Group raised 1.5 billion dollars in a dual tranch-bond that is aimed at boosting its growth strategy. The group has become a key player in fertilizer production and plans plants in Nigeria and Ethiopia as well as blending units across the continent. Demand for the bond, which was arranged […]
King Mohammed VI has given instructions to a number of institutions and stakeholders to facilitate the 2021 Summer holidays for the Moroccan community settled abroad, whose majority could not visit the home country last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The King’s instructions come just a couple of days before the entry into effect […]
King Mohammed VI has instructed the Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity to put at the disposal of the members of the Moroccan community residing abroad, a special support system on board the ships operating the crossing back home, the Royal Office said in a statement this Sunday. The special support system is meant to ensure […]