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Morocco has opened its airports to international passenger traffic with most of tourism emitting countries giving a brim of hope for tourism professionals who have borne the brunt of Covid-19 travel bans. After a tough 2020 year in which tourism revenues fell by 53.8% to 36.3 billion dirhams ($3.8 billion), travel receipts further dropped by […]
Nabil Karoui, head of Tunisia’s largest party in the parliament and media mogul has been admitted to hospital early Tuesday after he began a hunger strike to protest his detention in prison since December. A video posted on his official Facebook page showed the founder of the Heart Tunisia party, which came second during last […]
Trade between Morocco and the United States has increased fivefold since 2005, the year before the entry into force of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two countries, to reach 5 billion dollars in 2019, said, Monday in Casablanca, the Chargé d’Affaires of the US Embassy in Morocco, David Greene. This commercial dynamic has […]
The European Union (EU) has welcomed again Morocco’s decision to definitively settle the issue of unaccompanied minors in Europe. “The EU welcomes Morocco’s decision to facilitate the return of unaccompanied and duly identified Moroccan minors,” a spokesperson of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy told MAP on Tuesday. She underlined that “for years, […]
Morocco’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, Omar Hilale, was elected Monday by acclamation as Chairman of the First Committee of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly. This is the first time that Morocco is assuming the chairmanship of this important Committee which is in charge of disarmament and international […]
At the high instructions of King Mohammed VI, Supreme Commander and Chief of General Staff of the Royal Armed Forces, the joint Moroccan-American African Lion 2021 drills kicked off this Monday in Agadir. The military maneuvers will continue until Friday June 18, 2021 in the regions of Agadir, Tifnit, Tan Tan, Mehbes, Tafraout, Ben Guerir […]
Morocco has strongly condemned as despicable terrorist attacks the cowardly aggression, which targeted Solhan, northern Burkina Faso, early Saturday, killing 160 innocent civilians. This came in a message that Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita addressed to his Burkinabe peer, Mr. Alpha Barry. Nasser Bourita denounced the despicable terrorist attacks, which targeted northern Burkina Faso, killing 160 […]
Orange Middle East and Africa and AXA Assurance Maroc have acquired a majority stake in DabaDoc, the Moroccan health-tech company digitalizing access to healthcare in Africa. The financial terms of the transaction, announced Monday, have not been disclosed. DabaDoc, which was set up in 2014, is an online platform offering access to healthcare services in […]
The Islamic state group, ISIS, Sunday claimed responsibility for the car bomb attack that killed two Libyan security forces the same day at a checkpoint in the southern city of Sebha, around 750 kilometers south of capital Tripoli, Emirati media ‘The National’ reports. A car laden with explosives exploded as it crossed a security checkpoint […]
Head of Heart of Tunisia party and Former Presidential candidate, Nabil Karoui, started Saturday a hunger strike in prison to protest against his continued detention since December 2020 on money laundering and tax evasion charges. Nazih Souii, lawyer of the media mogul and Nessma TV owner, told state-run news agency TAP that his client is […]