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Morocco’s Justice Minister Mohamed Ben Abdelkader has underlined the kingdom’s strong cooperation ties with the international community in the fight against transnational crimes which threaten world peace and stability. Addressing remotely the 14th UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, held in Kyoto (Japan) March 7-12, the minister reiterated Morocco’s call for strengthening the […]
Morocco was the largest Arab exporter to Mexico in 2020, with more than $298 million of products exported, according to the Mexican Foreign Trade Council (COMCO). The Kingdom’s exports are mainly made up of calcium phosphates, vehicles and planes spare parts as well as fishery products. Moroccan exports to the second largest economy in Latin […]
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has officially called on the Algerian authorities to conduct “prompt and impartial investigations” into the allegations of torture and sexual abuse suffered by several inmates arrested during the Hirak who openly denounced the ill-treatment inflicted on them by the security services while in police custody. Rupert Colville, […]
Internet data usage rose dramatically in Morocco during the pandemic on the back of an increase in new subscribers of 4G and broadband, Morocco’s telecoms regulator said. Data usage was up 155% to 8 billion gigabytes in 2020 compared to a year earlier, the agency said. The number of subscribers rose to 29.8 million, which […]
Morocco’s Tanger Med port has outperformed all Mediterranean peers in terms of goods that have transited through it last year building on robust infrastructure, Spanish daily El Pais wrote. The Moroccan port handled 5.7 million containers in 2020 compared to 5.4 in Spain’s Valencia and 5.1 in the nearby Algeciras. The port benefits from its […]
Morocco is looked at as a trusted security partner by global powers as it modernizes its forces and steps up exercises at sea, land and air, the most recent took place with France and the US. During the last few weeks, Morocco hosted off its coasts major bilateral military exercises with France and later with […]
While some countries are still behind on their COVID-19 vaccination campaign, Morocco has received recognition for its efforts and the speed at which it has managed to launch a successful vaccination drive. In this connection, Dutch public radio station “NPO Radio 1” has underscored the success of Morocco’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign, which has enabled the […]
Morocco was elected on Sunday as vice-president of the 14th Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, which kicked off in Kyoto, Japan. Participants in the meeting, held in hybrid format, elected, by acclamation, the Japanese minister of Justice, Yoko Kamikawa, as president of this 14th congress, in addition to 21 vice-presidents including Morocco in […]
Algeria has been slammed by the U.N. Human Rights Office for its crackdown on members of the pro-democracy Hirak movement which has picked up on its momentum. On Friday, thousands defied Covid-19 restrictions and took to the streets of Algiers and other cities across the country chanting slogans against the military junta and demanding a […]
The extension and conversion works of the Institute Specializing in Aeronautics and Airport Logistics Trades (ISMALA) in Nouaceur, near Casablanca, were launched on Thursday. The works are co-financed by the US Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) which invested in the project 59.5 million DH ($6.6 million) through its MCA-Morocco “Charaka Fund”. Morocco’s Office for Vocational […]