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The European Union and Morocco share the same determination to further develop their economic and trade partnership, notably through a deep and comprehensive free trade agreement. This shared determination was expressed by European Commissioner for Trade, Phil Hogan, and Moroccan Minister of Industry & Trade Moulay Hafid Elalamy, at a meeting held Friday in […]
Spain won the support of the European Court of Human Rights over its rapid deportation of two African migrants from the enclaves of Melilla and Ceuta it occupies in Northern Morocco. In a verdict that may anger rights groups, the court considered that there has been no violations of the European Convention on Human Rights. […]
Egypt will set up a facility to convert rice straw into wood in a bid to limit air pollution resulting from burning the straw. The $228 million plant, located in the Nile Delta’s Beheira Province, will produce 205,000 square meters a year of medium-density fiberboards (MDF), using technologies developed by German engineering firm Siempelkamp. The […]
The Namibian first lady has promised to donate all her wealth to charity when she dies. “I strongly believe that inheritance is one of the biggest drivers of inequality,” First Lady Monica Geingos told Reuters. Monica Geingos plans to leave her wealth, estimated at $3 million, to her One Economy Foundation. The foundation currently lends […]
The UN refugee agency says about 8,000 people have fled from Cameroon into Nigeria in the past two weeks because of an upsurge in violence. According to the UN agency, the refugees had trekked through savannah and forests to reach Nigeria. Some arrived with gunshot wounds. Fighting between Anglophone separatists and security forces flared […]
Colombia’s Deputy Minister for Multilateral Affairs, Adriana Mejia Hernandez, has reaffirmed her country’s firm support to the Morocco-proposed autonomy plan offered for the Sahara and to the sustained efforts made by Rabat for the settlement of the Sahara issue within the UN framework. Bogota backs Morocco’s stand aimed at achieving a lasting solution to the […]
Morocco’s national airline, Royal Air Maroc, and British Airways have sealed a code-share agreement on the Casablanca-Agadir-London routes operated by the two companies. The deal offers more choices to passengers travelling to London and Marrakesh, says the Moroccan flag-carrier in a press release. Codeshare flights take off on February 20, with RAM due to join […]
At least twenty villagers were massacred in an attack in the Malian village of Ogossagou, in the center of the country, medical sources said Friday. The assault was carried out overnight by around thirty armed men, a few hours after the Malian army withdrew from the locality. Twenty people were killed in an attack overnight […]
Eighteen Italian cities have voiced strong backing to the autonomy plan offered by Morocco for a lasting resolution of the Sahara conflict. In a joint statement released lately, the mayors of eighteen Italian communes of Canavese, in the Piedmont region, “welcomed the process of advanced regionalization which provides for a new, more dynamic policy in […]
Amnesty International called on Friday for an investigation into military operations in northeastern Nigeria, where at least three villages have been razed to the ground by soldiers fighting the jihadists. Attacks have intensified in recent months in northeastern Nigeria, where the Islamic State jihadists in West Africa (ISWAP), a branch of the Nigerian Boko Haram […]