First Independent Mena Newspaper
Equatorial Guinean Minister of Foreign Affairs Simeón Oyono Esono Angue is currently visiting Morocco, carrying a message from President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo to King Mohammed VI. “I am carrying a message from H.E. Obiang Nguema Mbasogo to H.M. King Mohammed VI,” the Foreign Minister told the media after talks with his Moroccan peer Nasser […]
The Chinese multinational telecommunications equipment and services company Huawei is ready to cooperate with its Moroccan partners to launch the 5G network, Huawei vice-president for North-Africa, Philippe Wang, said Monday in Beijing. Philippe Wang who was talking to a Moroccan delegation on a visit to a Huawei service center in Beijing said his company was […]
The sixth edition of the Crans Montana Forum will be held, like previous editions, in the Moroccan Saharan city of Dakhla next March 18 through 21. The venue as well as the program of this annual meeting on Africa and South-South Cooperation were announced by Founding President of the Crans Montana Forum, Jean-Paul Carteron, at […]
Office chérifien des phosphates (OCP), Morocco’s phosphate group, will soon open a fertilizer company in Romania in conjunction with Al Dahra, an Emirati multinational agribusiness group, reports say. OCP and al Dahra will set up South East European Fertilizer Company (SEEFCO) with a capital estimated at $5 billion. The Moroccan government’s approval of the operation, […]
Preparations for NATO Regional Exercise (REGEX 20), to be hosted by Morocco in November 2020, were reviewed Monday in Rabat by Lt. General, Inspector General of Royal Armed Forces (FAR) and Lt.General Hans-Werner Wiermann, chief of NATO International Military Staff. Talks between the two Generals also covered military cooperation between FAR and NATO, said a […]
The government of Bolivia has decided to suspend its recognition of the self-proclaimed “SADR” and cut all ties with the Algerian-backed Polisario separatist group, deepening their international isolation. The move was announced on Monday by the Bolivian ministry of foreign Affairs. In a press release, this South American country said “it adopts constructive neutrality” regarding […]
President Kais Saied Monday picked former finance minister Elyes Fakhfekh to form a cabinet after the parliament early this month rejected a first government led by Habib Jemli, an independent named by Ennahda, the leading party in the legislature. Fakhfekh is chosen for the Prime Minister job after Jemli failed to win the vote of […]
The Turkish General Directorate of Mineral Research and Exploration (MTA) will carry out mineral exploration activities in Niger under a cooperation agreement between the two countries signed Monday. Exploration activities will take place in the West African country’s geochemistry, geophysics and drilling projects, said Energy and Natural Resources Minister Fatih Dönmez who signed the agreement […]
Head of Moroccan Government Saad Eddine El Othmani said Monday in London that “Morocco will work to strengthen ties between Africa and the United Kingdom after Brexit.” El Otmani made the remarks after a meeting with UK peer Boris Johnson on the sidelines of “UK-Africa Investment Summit 2020” organized by the British government to foster […]
There were 564,549 people employed in 2019 in Moroccan public administration, says Human Resources Report 2020 released by the ministry of Economy, Finance & Administrative Reform. In the North African kingdom, 90 pc of public servants are working in six ministerial departments. The ministry of education is the largest employer accounting for 48.6 pc of […]