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The United States has opposed the choice of former Algerian foreign minister Ramtane Lamamra as UN Special Envoy to crisis-hit neighboring Libya to replace Lebanese Ghassan Salame, who resigned in March. A UN diplomat who asked not be named because not allowed to speak on the matter told AFP that during Wednesday UN closed session […]
The UN Security Council has reiterated the parameters it had set out in its resolutions 2414, 2440, 2468, and 2494 to achieve a final solution to the regional dispute over the Moroccan Sahara. The Security Council members made it clear at a briefing on the Moroccan Sahara issue, held Thursday, that there is no other […]
Russian Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant (NCCP), an enterprise of ROSATOM’s TVEL Fuel Company, and the Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority have signed a 10-year contract for supply of low-enriched nuclear fuel components, such as uranium and aluminum items, for ETRR-2 research reactor. ETRR-2, a research reactor of Argentinian design, is based at the Nuclear Research Center […]
Moroccan Employers’ Association (CGEM) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a World Bank Group institution dedicated to the private sector, are pooling efforts to support innovative Moroccan startups selected as part of the #SolidariTECH initiative. This partnership aims to deploy the solutions proposed by these startups in neighboring countries such as Algeria and Tunisia and […]
President of the Arab World Institute (IMA) Jack Lang has hailed the swift actions taken by King Mohammed VI to prevent the spread of Coronavirus pandemic. In a message addressed Wednesday to Mehdi Qotbi, president of the National Foundation of Museums of Morocco, Mr. Jack Lang said King Mohammed VI will be remembered forever in […]
Morocco’s permanent ambassador to the UN in New York, Omar Hilale, was selected to co-chair the process of strengthening UN bodies that oversee human rights treaties. President of the UN General Assembly, Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, appointed, on Wednesday, Morocco’s permanent representative in New York, ambassador Omar Hilale, as co-facilitator, along with the ambassador of Switzerland […]
The decisions spurred by King Mohammed VI have so far put Morocco in control of the spread of the coronavirus in the country giving the health system time to adapt its resources and the government leeway in taking necessary measures to mitigate the social and economic repercussions of the pandemic. A picture published by the […]
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread around the world, the populations sequestered in the Tindouf camps, Southern Algeria, are left to fend for themselves in dreadful conditions, while the Polisario leaders are enjoying their comfortable life in their air-conditioned villas in the city of Tindouf as the Algerian authorities closed access to the camps […]
Forces aligned with the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) air stoke Thursday a convoy of militias affiliated with rebel Gen. Khalifar Haftar, in south of capital Tripoli, Anadolu news agency reports. The shelling took place on the road between the towns of Tarhuna and Bani Walid south of Tripoli and targeted two armored vehicles […]
Morocco’s gross domestic product is set to recede in the second quarter by 1.8% as the coronavirus and the measures relating to it halted most of services and hit sectors that are vital to foreign currency revenues, the high commission for planning HCP said. The economy is expected to grow only by 1.1% in the […]