Algeria Headlines Maghreb Morocco

Disarray in the Polisario’s ranks: A former secret service officer promises overwhelming revelations

The Polisario leaders are in total disarray, after former security officer Mohamed Mahamud Embarek announced he is about to make devastating revelations about this organization, plagued, as he put it, by “corruption, nepotism and tribalism.”   The former Polisario officer, who is settled in Belgium, says in his blog that he is about “to inaugurate […]

Headlines Morocco

Explosive materials seized during recent dismantling of terrorist cell

The results of an expertise carried out by the forensic science laboratory reveal that all the materials seized during the dismantling of the terrorist cell on September 10, are used in the manufacturing of explosive charges. The Attorney General at the Rabat Court of Appeal announced on Saturday that the materials seized by Morocco’s anti-terror […]

Business Europe Headlines International Morocco

Moroccan airline to open-up Marrakech for foreign tourists

hMoroccan airline RAM said it will launch four new routes linking Marrakech to European cities in a bid to help the company and the city recover from the coronavirus impact. RAM chief Abdelhamid Addou said the decision was taken following a meeting with tourism minister Nadia Fettah Alaoui and head of the national tourism promotion […]

Asia Headlines International Morocco

Morocco orders R-Pharm Covid-19 vaccine

Morocco placed an order with Russian drug maker R-Pharm to acquire Covid-19 vaccine produced under a license from the UK’s AstraZenica, the health ministry said. AstraZenica developped the vaccine together with Oxford and R-Pharm has received the highest portion of vaccine orders globally so far. The deal was distantly signed by health minister Khaled Ait […]

Business Energy Headlines Libya

Libya: Haftar lifts blockade on oil fields & ports under guarantee of a fair distribution of revenues

Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar on Friday announced lifting the blockade on oil production and its export.   Hours after the Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC), in a statement, objected to “the politicization of the oil sector and its use as a bargaining chip for political gains,” Haftar announced in a televised speech the lifting of […]

Europe Headlines International Morocco

Migration: EU can benefit greatly from Spanish-Moroccan cooperation model (Maltese FM)

Maltese Foreign Affairs Minister Evarist Bartolo stressed Thursday in Madrid that the European Union can benefit greatly from the Spanish-Moroccan cooperation model in the management of migration flows. The EU can learn from the experience of cooperation between Spain and Morocco, which created “channels for legal immigration and decent wages”, noted the Maltese official at […]

Americas Headlines International Morocco

Morocco-US joint naval drill to enhance interoperability & regional maritime security

Morocco’s Royal Navy and the US navy have conducted lately a joint naval exercise to enhance interoperability between the two allies. According to US naval forces Europe-Africa, the Expeditionary Sea Base USS Hershel “Woody” Williams (ESB 4) participated in the tracking training exercise with the Moroccan Navy’s Floreal-class Frigate Mohammed V. The Moroccan warship worked […]

Algeria Headlines Maghreb Morocco

UNHRC: Polisario continues to enslave women in 21st Century

If slavery has been abolished almost everywhere in the world, this evil and crime against humanity persist in the 21st century and particularly in the polisario-controlled camps, in Tindouf in Southern Algeria. This inhuman, degrading, cruel, detestable and prohibited treatment suffered by Sahrawi women in these camps under the watch of Algerian authorities has been […]

Americas Headlines International Morocco

Morocco, US Launch Education Partnership for Teacher Training

Morocco’s Ministry of Education and the US Agency of International Development (USAID) launched on Wednesday the Higher Education Partnership Program to strengthen Morocco’s teacher training system. The Ministry of Education announced in a statement that the program has a budget of $5 million over a period of five years and that it aims to enhance […]

Egypt Energy Headlines

BP discovers new gas field in Egypt’s Nile Delta

British multinational oil and gas company, British Petroleum (BP) has announced the discovery of a new gas field in Egypt, in the Nile Delta. The new discovery is located at 16 meters water depth on a new formation-level near current Nidoco NW-1 exploratory well, in Abu Madi West concession, 4 km north from the Nooros […]