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Outgoing President Donald Trump awarded the Legion of Merit, Degree Chief Commander, to Morocco’s King Mohammed VI, for his positive impact on the political landscape of the Middle East and North Africa, and his leadership in bolstering Morocco-USA partnership, the White House announced Friday in a statement. “Over his more than two decades of leadership, […]
President Donald Trump on Friday received Morocco’s highest award for his work in advancing a normalization deal between Israel and Morocco, a senior administration official told Reuters. In a private Oval Office ceremony, Princess Lalla Joumala Alaoui, who is Morocco’s ambassador to the United States, gave Trump the Order of Muhammad, an award given only […]
Moroccan Foreign Minister said that the autonomy plan is gaining support among European countries citing France as the first country to back the proposal, but said that Europe needs to adopt bolder positions in view of the fallout of the status-quo on regional peace and stability. Speaking at a press conference following a ministerial event […]
Representatives of forty countries, including 27 ministers, took part at a virtual ministerial conference to reiterate support for Morocco’s autonomy proposal as the only political solution to the Sahara issue. The conference was co-chaired by Moroccan Foreign Minister and US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs David Schenker. “President Trump’s proclamation on December […]
The German parliament, the Bundstag, canceled a meeting that was proposed by the Greens to discuss the situation in the Moroccan Sahara, deemed by observers as a desperate move by proponents of Polisario separatists to pressure the German state to anti-Moroccan positions. The proposal was canceled by the foreign relations commission led by the Christian […]
Morocco’s economic growth is expected to pick up to 4.6% in 2021 after a 7% loss in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic which hit both exports and local market, the Moroccan high commission for planning, HCP, said. Citing a severe drought and the coronavirus pandemic impact, the HCP said that the economy is expected […]
The UN Secretary General informed the members of the Security Council on Thursday 14 January of his intention to appoint Slovakia’s Jan Kubis as special envoy to Libya. The members of the Council will have until Friday evening to give their agreement or not to this candidacy. The post of UN Special Envoy has been […]
The United States has pledged to help Morocco protect its cultural heritage from smuggling and step up the strategic partnership sealed between the two countries. An agreement was inked on Thursday in this regard by American ambassador to Morocco David T. Fischer and minister of Culture Othmane El Ferdaous while US Assistant Secretary of State […]
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO, Thursday said it was ready to help Libya build its security, Anadolu news agency reports. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, speaking at a news conference, said the organization is poised to support UN efforts to find a negotiated solution to the Libyan crisis. Stoltenberg also welcomed the ongoing ceasefire […]
No more prior administrative authorization is required to create associations in Mauritania as was the case since 1964. A declaration of creation is now sufficient. The former regime was considered by human rights organizations to be liberticidal, as it served as a pretext for the authorities to repress the leaders of unrecognized associations. Mauritania has […]