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Algeria will share doses of Russian covid-19 Sputnik V vaccine with its neighbor in the east reeling with spike in contaminations, Tunisia’s top diplomat Othmane Jerandi said Thursday. “The Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs has assured me that his country has not yet received the vaccine. However, he assured me that as soon as the […]
Morocco is one of France’s major allies in the fight against radical Islam, a fight where France must be pragmatic and surround itself with friendly countries, states General Dominique Trinquand. In a column published Thursday by Marianne.net, General Dominique Trinquand, former head of the military mission to the UN, believes that Morocco and the UAE, […]
The US recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara is “a very good initiative” and ‘a right move that needs to be pursued and accompanied” as it is “a very important step towards the resolution of the Sahara conflict,” said MP of the French majority MoDem party Bruno Fuchs. There is no doubt that “the […]
Morocco and the US discussed prospects for cooperation in the field of defense industries as Rabat ambitions to develop domestic military industries. This came during the 11th session of the Morocco-US Defense Consultative Committee (DCC) held this week in Rabat under the co-chairmanship of minister delegate in charge of defense Abdellatif Loudiyi and US Defense […]
Global Shapers Community, an initiative of the World Economic Forum (WEF) for young leaders, announced it has opened its 444th hub in the city of Laayoune in Southern Morocco, another move implying the international community’s recognition of the Sahara as a Moroccan territory. “The Laayoune Hub will join other hubs in Morocco located in Rabat, […]
Spanish InCom company, a multinational group dedicated to the engineering, design and manufacture of composite kits for the wind blade industry, has taken a new step in its international expansion with the opening of its first factory on the African continent, more precisely in the Northern Moroccan city of Tangier. The plant, which started […]
The 18-member consultative committee of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LDPF) began direct consultations in Geneva on Wednesday January 13 under the aegis of the United Nations. The work is due to be completed within three days. A solution must be found to adopt a mechanism for selecting the new unified executive. Several observers say […]
Major Polish companies operating in various economic sectors have decided to invest in Morocco, particularly in the Southern Provinces. During a working session Wednesday in Warsaw with Morocco’s Ambassador to Poland, Abderrahim Atmoun, several Polish stakeholders expressed their wish to visit Morocco’s Southern Provinces and materialize their decision to invest in the region. In a […]
German Ambassador to Rabat has described the autonomy initiative put forth by Morocco to settle the Sahara issue as the most realistic solution and separatists claims of the Polisario are “unfeasible”. “It is difficult to find a more realistic solution” than the autonomy initiative to the Sahara conflict which has long lasted, the German Ambassador […]
Turkey and Morocco have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), vowing to establish an advanced partnership to promote cooperation in the field of competition policies and enforcement of competition laws in force in both countries, and to meet the challenges of “competition on markets.” Morocco’s Competition Council President Driss Guerraoui and his Turkish counterpart […]