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Morocco’s Tanger Med port handled 4.8 million containers in 2019 posting a 38% increase compared to a year earlier. The port, the first in Africa and the Mediterranean in terms of container capacity, has still room for expansion as its capacity was boosted to 9 million containers with the launch of Tanger Med 2 last […]
Thousands of Moroccan female seasonal workers working in Spanish strawberry farms continue to live in dire conditions in Spain despite multiple promises to improve their working environments, wrote Nuevatribuna. This year 16,500 Moroccan woman prepare to work in the fields of the Huelva region where slavery-like practices persist with workers having to walk several kilometers […]
Attendees in the Sunday Berlin Conference vowed to end support to conflicting sides in the Libyan crisis and stick to the UN arms embargo imposed on the North African country, host Angela Merkel said. “We agreed that we want to respect that embargo on weapon and that it will be strictly respected, more than before,” […]
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Sunday expressed to President Fattah al-Sisi his outrage at the death of a US citizen in prison in Egypt, a death that the American top diplomat branded as “pointless and tragic”. Pompeo made the complaint following the death of Mustafa Kassem, 54. After a protracted hunger strike. Mustafa Kassem […]
The Moroccan Saharan city of Laayoune will host the upcoming meeting of the CAF Executive Committee on the sidelines of Fustal African Cup of Nations 2020 due Jan.28 to Feb.7, said a press release issued by Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF). Futsal is a type of football played on a small, hard-surface court between two […]
Tunisia’s Former Minister of Economy, Hakim Ben Hammouda, who has been nominated by seven parties for the position of Prime Minister on Saturday briefed President Kais Saied on his strategy if confirmed. Speaking to the media after the meeting, Ben Hammouda said that the biggest challenge facing the next stage is “rebuilding the social contract” […]
Tunisia has turned down the invitation to participate in the Berlin Conference held this Sunday, January 19, because the invitation was late and because Tunis has not been involved in the preparatory meetings for the conference. ,” the Foreign Affairs Department said in a statement Saturday while expressing its thanks and consideration for the invitation […]
King Mohammed VI received Saturday a phone call from French President Emmannuel Macron during which Morocco’s key role in brokering the Skhirate agreement between the Libyan warring factions was underlined. During the phone talk, which took place on the eve of Berlin talks on Libya, Morocco’s steady efforts to reach a settlement of the […]
The biggest city in the Sahara, southern Morocco, will be a venue on February 22 of a meeting bringing together foreign ministers of Morocco and 12 pacific countries. The meeting ushers a new era of support for Morocco’s territorial sovereignty, Foreign minister said after announcing the event. The participating countries will explore means to boost […]
Faithful to a far-right discourse pinning troubles on the “Other”, president of Spanish-occupied Ceuta, Juan Vivas of VOX party used the fear of migrants to diabolize Morocco. Speaking from a city in northern Morocco though occupied by Spain, Vivas criticized the sovereign decisions taken by Morocco to manage the flow of goods on the borders […]