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Morocco’s carrier Royal Air Maroc (RAM) announced this Wednesday the launch, starting February 12, of a new direct air route between Paris and Dakhla. This new air route will connect, for the first time, the European continent to the city of Dakhla, in less than 04h30, RAM said in a press releasen adding this link […]
Algeria’s diplomacy has ensued painful setbacks in recent years on the Sahara issue. Morocco’s successful move to secure the border crossing with Mauritania and the recognition by the US of Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara are the latest nails in the coffin of Algeria’s mulish support for the Polisario separatist militia. Isolated globally and in […]
Morocco has extended the anti-coronavirus restrictive measures for one more week as it still waits for the launch of a mass vaccination campaign. The measures include a night curfew, closure of restaurants at 20:00 and maintenance of ban on public gatherings. The government said that the extension of the measures aimed at containing the outbreak […]
The United Nations support mission in Libya (UNSMIL) welcomed the meeting that took place on Tuesday, January 12, in Brega, the Libyan eastern port city, between the finance ministers of the two rival parties. An agreement for a unified budget for 2021 was reached at this meeting. A joint financial commission composed of experts from […]
Tunisia Tuesday announced a four-day general lockdown starting from Thursday jan.14 as authorities move to curb alarming covid-19 contaminations. The measure includes a nationwide curfew from 4pm to 6am, suspension of school classes until January 24, ban on all cultural events. Restaurants and cafes ordered not to provide seats for their clients. The move comes […]
Japanese Corporations Yazaki, which makes car components, and Sumitomo Electric Industries will set up four plants in Morocco for a $103 million investment. These plants will create 8300 jobs and support Morocco’s car industry. The two Japanese groups signed on Tuesday separate agreements with Moroccan authorities in a ceremony chaired by Minister of Industry and […]
At the high instructions of King Mohammed VI, Supreme Commander and Chief of General Staff of the FAR, the Morocco-US Defense Consultative Committee (DCC) convened its 11th session this Tuesday at the headquarters of the National Defense Administration. The session was co-chaired by Morocco’s Minister Delegate for National Defense Administration, Abdellatif Loudyi, and US […]
Israel has designated its former ambassador to Egypt David Govrin as a temporary head of its liaison office in Rabat, which will resume after the two countries signed a landmark agreement brokered by the US administration in December. Govrin will fly to Morocco to open the liaison office in the upcoming weeks, the Israeli foreign […]
Morocco’s Lesieur Cristal, a company that produces cooking oil and soap, took control of Avril’s activity in Africa, following a merger-acquisition, by which the Moroccan company bought Senegal’s Oleosen. In addition to Oleosen, which produces cooking oil, the Moroccan group took control of Cristal Tunisia which besides table oil also makes soap. Lesieur Cristal has […]
Morocco’s Ministry of Health has announced that a screening operation for the Coronavirus new variant (SARS-CoV-2) will be carried out for 30,000 middle and high school students in six regions across the country. The decision seeks to estimate the level of the spread of COVID-19 among young Moroccans under 18, according to the ministry. As […]