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Despite challenges posed by the pandemic to international trade, Moroccan ports handled 92.5 million tons in 2020, that is a 5.1% rise compared to a year earlier, the national ports agency said. Imports rose 4.4% to 56.1 million tons due notably to a rise in cereal purchases by 33.4%, sugar (+8.9%), animal feed (+3.4%), coal […]
Morocco, the first African country to launch a national vaccine campaign, has so far given doses to 200,081 becoming so far the country with the most vaccinated people in the continent. Morocco rolled out the vaccine on Friday after receiving two million doses from AstraZeneca and 500,000 jabs from China’s Sinopharm. The vaccination campaign targeted […]
The terrorist threats and the security challenges facing the African continent were at the center of talks held Monday in Rabat between Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita and presidential advisor for security of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) François Beya. The two officials also discussed ways of enhancing further bilateral relations, latest regional […]
The Institute of the Arab World (IMA) will celebrate next fall the history of the Jews of the East and the Arab World, a world premiere wherein Morocco will take a prominent place, said chairman of the Paris-based Institute, Jack Lang. Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, IMA maintains its plans and continues preparing several landmark events, […]
Morocco has extended the anti-coronavirus restrictive measures for two more weeks as of Tuesday, February 02 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 […]
Member of the Libyan House of Representatives Mohammed al-Raid has expressed appreciation for Morocco’s “leading and neutral” role in the negotiations between the Libyan parties seeking to reach a solution to the conflict in the North African country. “The distinguished, neutral and clear position of the Kingdom has helped the Libyan parties to reach […]
Moroccan Electricity and Drinking Water Office (ONEE) invested last year more than $791 million, including $390 million injected in electricity projects and $401 million spent on water programs. These figures have been unveiled by ONEE Director General Abderrahim El Hafidi during a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Office, held lately under the […]
Several human rights groups and activists and social media users have denounced as unjust the ruling of a court in Tunisia which sentenced three people aged under 30 to 30 years in prison each on cannabis use charges. The critics of the ruling also called for amending the Law 52 on which the court based […]
The 75 delegates of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum pre-selected on Saturday the candidates for the posts of Prime Minister and members of the presidential council after nearly three months of talks. The UN Mission in Libya, UNSMIL, has published the list of the candidates for the four main executive positions; namely the three Presidency […]
A group of Polisario militia leaders was found guilty of trafficking more than 3000 used cars from Spain and selling them illegally in Algeria, Algerian media said. The Polisario leaders however were not indicted despite the fact that they were the main culprits who imported the cars from Spain. Algerian independent Media, Algerie […]