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The African Development Bank (AfDB) has renewed its commitment to support a socially inclusive and ecologically sustainable recovery in Morocco, said the Bank country manager for Morocco Brice Mikponhoue. Speaking at the opening of a remotely-held seminar on social and environmental safeguards that frame AfDB’s operations in the Kingdom, Mikponhoue said that this joint event […]
The government Council, held Thursday in Rabat, has decided to extend the state of health emergency across the national territory until Saturday July 10, 2021, as part of efforts aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The heath emergency was scheduled to expire on Thursday June 10, 2021. The state of health emergency […]
Israeli airline, Israir, said it will launch direct flights linking Tel Aviv to Marrakech on July 19, seven months after the two countries agreed to resume diplomatic ties and launch direct flights. Israir said it plans to operate five direct flights between Tel Aviv and Marrakech weekly. “We estimate that the demand will be high […]
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has provided Moroccan CIH Bank with a €60 million funding destined to support SMEs affected by the global health crisis generated by Covid-19 pandemic. The two financial institutions signed on Wednesday an agreement to support Moroccan companies to stimulate the economic recovery from the impact of the pandemic. The EIB […]
The Popular Party (PP), the main opposition party in Spain, on Wednesday called for the “immediate resignation” of the Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha Gonzalez Laya over her “disastrous” management of the crisis with Morocco and the “wilful blindness” she showed in the case of the so-called Brahim Ghali. “I think the Minister of Foreign Affairs […]
The European Union welcomed, on Tuesday, Morocco’s decision to definitively settle the issue of unaccompanied Moroccan minors in illegal situation in certain European countries. “I welcome this important announcement from Morocco today regarding the readmission of unaccompanied minors,” said Oliver Varhelyi, European Commissioner for Neighborhood and Enlargement. “We will continue our close cooperation with Morocco […]
It is a “full support” that French President Emmanuel Macron expressed to the head of the Libyan government Abdel Hamid Dbeibah who was received Tuesday June 1 at the Élysée Palace. Emmanuel Macron described the formation of the Government of National Unity (GNU) as “an important step” in ending the crisis. Speaking after the meeting, […]
Egregious crimes never die out or fall into oblivion. They usually come back to haunt the killers years after they commit them. the head of the Algeria-backed polisario militias Brahim Ghali is facing serious charges of genocide, rape, murder, terrorism, torture and disappearances. Several Spanish nationals of Sahrawi origin are suing him and the list […]
Egyptian officials and media have reacted angrily after Ethiopia announced Sunday it will build next year more than 100 dams aside the current disputed Nile River hydro dam, Anadolu news agency reports. Ethiopian Premier Abiy Ahmed Sunday indicated that his country will build during the next fiscal year at least 100 medium and small dams […]
Ennahdha, the largest party in the Tunisian legislature, Tuesday slammed the condemnation of a prominent blogger by a military court following a lawsuit lodged by the office of President Kais Saied for defamation. Slim Jebali, a famous blogger in Tunisia was hauled Monday into prison after appearing before Kef military court after four lawsuits were […]