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Morocco has expressed satisfaction at the appointment of Nigerian Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala at the head of the World Trade Organization (WTO), as it is the first time that a woman from an African developing country is at the helm of the organization. The Nigerian Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was appointed Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) during […]
Morocco was officially invited to attend a high-level security summit by member states of the G5-Sahel group, which was created to pool the efforts of Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger against all sorts of terrorist threats. Head of the Government Saad Eddine El Othmani arrived in Chad’s capital to represent King Mohammed VI […]
Morocco has extended the anti-coronavirus restrictive measures for two more weeks as of Tuesday, February 16 at 9 p.m. The measures include a night curfew, closure of restaurants and shopping centers at 08 p.m. and maintenance of ban on public gatherings. The restrective measures were first decreed on Dec.23, 2020 for three weeks and have […]
The United Nations has highlighted the important work carried out by Morocco in pushing forwards the peace process in Libya. In this regard, the new UN envoy to Libya, Jan Kubis, has had various contacts on the Libyan issue with the Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nasser Bourita. According to a statement from the […]
The grotesque show aired by an Algerian public channel in an attempt to offense Morocco and its King is actually part of the Algerian media’s fierce campaign to derail Morocco’s achievements on the Sahara issue that plunged the Algerian regime in consternation. These demeaning methods and attacks on the Moroccan people and symbols of […]
Two senior Belgian politicians have called on the European Union to support the Autonomy Plan for the Sahara, proposed by Morocco, a reliable EU partner. Louis Michel, former State Minister, and Jacques Brotchi, honorary President of the Belgian Senate, issued on Saturday a joint statement, urging the European Union to back the autonomy solution under […]
Egypt is expected to re-open its embassy in Libya today Monday as a high key diplomatic delegation visits Tripoli for the second time since 2014. Libya’s foreign ministry’s spokesman Mohammed Al-Qablawi in a statement to Anadolu indicated that the delegation made of diplomats and security personnel would visit the Libyan capital and will re-open the […]
Moroccan politicians, intellectuals, artists, media bodies, sports clubs, and ordinary citizens have all strongly denounced as the worst excesses of unethical journalism the Algerian channel “Echourouk” which dared to attack the Moroccan people and Monarch. The Algerian channel, which broadcast a satirical program clearly attacking the Kingdom and King Mohammed VI, perhaps did not […]
Algerian NGOs have announced Saturday in Algiers the setting up of a committee to fight torture and violence suffered by prisoners of conscience, after accusations of rape shocked the public opinion. The testimony in early February of Walid Nekiche, a 25-year-old pro-democracy activist, who claims to have been tortured and sexually assaulted by members […]
The American Jewish Committee (AJC) welcomed the US decision to recognize and back Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara. This recognition was “long-awaited, eminently sound and deserves continued support,” wrote the committee’s Chief Policy and Political Affairs Officer, Jason Isaacson, in a comment posted on the AJC website and published by the US magazine Newsweek. After […]