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President of the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD), Odile Renaud-Basso has voiced the Bank’s strong commitment to support Morocco’s economic recovery, regional integration, green economy, youth employment and gender equality. Mrs. Renaud-Basso made the remarks during her virtual talks Monday and Tuesday with Moroccan officials including ministers of economy Mohamed Benchaaboun and Foreign […]
Spanish far-right and anti-immigrant groups have fueled their discourse with the migration crisis that was triggered in a context of a row between Morocco and Spain which has admitted Polisario separatist leader in secrecy using false documents and a usurped identity. Instead of blaming their own diplomacy for undermining the partnership with Morocco, Spanish […]
Morocco and Mauritania are bound by excellent political relations and are set to foster their economic ties as they prepare for a high joint committee in that regards, said Moroccan and Mauritanian foreign ministers at the end of a meeting in Rabat this monday. Moroccan Foreign minister Bourita highlighted the positive development in bilateral […]
Polisario’s second in command Salem Lesbir shamelessly said that the separatists’ leader Brahim Ghali, who entered Spain secretly in April for medical care after he tested positive for COVID-19, will flee the European country and would not respond to the Spanish justice summons. Lesbir made the revelation in an interview with Alejandro Entrambasaguas, an […]
Tunisia and France will hold June 2-3 the third joint High Council of Cooperation to be marked by a number of agreements. French Premier Jean Castex will head the French delegation for the high-level conference that takes place every two years under the chairmanship of the two countries’ Prime Ministers. The third joint High Council […]
Spanish officials and media have pressured the EU to intervene following the influx of migrants on the occupied enclave of Ceuta in northern Morocco. It also desperately tries to cover up its strategic mistake of hosting under a false identity a Polisario leader wanted by Justice for war crimes. Spanish Prime minister Pedro Sanchez tried […]
Four Algerian generals are involved in the transfer of Ghali for medical treatment in Spain under a false identity and an Algerian diplomatic passport to shun justice, director general at Morocco’s foreign ministry said. “Besides the damage caused to the Moroccan-Spanish partnership, the case of the so-called Ghali shows first of all that Spain […]
Morocco received, this Sunday, May 23, more than 2 million doses of the Sinopharm vaccine. Two RAM Dreamliner, carrying this new batch, landed in the early afternoon at Mohammed V International Airport in Casablanca, local media reports. This shipment follows the 2 million doses of Sinopharm anti-covid vaccine received on Wednesday, May 19, as China […]
Morocco is a reliable country, which takes the fight against illegal migration “very seriously” and which “provides solutions that are costly”, said the French ambassador in Rabat, Helene Le Gal. Securing a maritime border like that of Morocco, in addition to land borders, is something huge on the scale of the country, said the French […]
Morocco’s firm response in the current rift opposition it to Spain confirms that the crisis is much more serious than the Spanish authorities want to admit, said Emmanuel Dupuy, president of the Paris-based Institute for European Perspective and Security (IPSE). The crisis between Spain and Morocco has “astonished by its radicality and its consequences with […]