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Kuwait has named for the first time an ambassador to Palestine in a gesture of unshakable support to the Palestinian cause. Media reports, citing Palestine’s envoy to the Gulf country Rami Tahboub, indicate that Aziz al-Daihani has been appointed as Kuwait’s non-resident ambassador to Palestine. The appointment came following talks between Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed and […]
The education minister of the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) has resigned from his job after the cabinet split his ministry and teachers called for his dismissal. Osman Abdel Jalil tendered his resignation Thursday after GNA head Faiez Serraj divided his department into two: public education ministry and higher education ministry. Abdel Jalil became […]
UN Security Council commended in its latest resolution on Sahara the work of the National Human Rights Council in the southern cities of Dakhla and Laayoune. The resolution, which extends the mandate of the UN mission in Sahara by another year, welcomed “steps and initiatives taken by Morocco, the role played by the Commissions of […]
Ivanka Trump, daughter and advisor to US President Donald Trump, who is preparing a visit to Morocco in November, said the country has made strides in promoting women rights and gender equality. The kingdom of Morocco is a valued US ally that has “taken strides” under King Mohammed VI to promote gender equality, Ivanka told […]
A Moroccan Appeals court has confirmed the death sentence announced against the three men who killed last year two Scandinavian tourists in the Atlas Mountains. The anti-terrorist court in the city of Salé (near Rabat) upheld the death penalty announced against the three killers who had pleaded guilty to the murder of Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, […]
The Bombardier factory in Morocco has been sold to US Spirit AeroSystems, along with the Canadian firm’s factories in North Ireland and a repair facility in Dallas, USA. The final agreement to sell Bombardier’s Aerostructures Business to Spirit AeroSystems Holding, Inc. was confirmed Wednesday by the Canadian group, which took a strategic decision to focus […]
The UN Security Council reiterated on Wednesday its “concern” over the Polisario’s violations of military agreements in the Sahara, and urged the separatist movement to respect the “commitments” it made in this regard to the former UN Secretary-General’s personal envoy Horst Köhler. The Security Council reaffirms, in resolution 2494 adopted on Wednesday, “the importance of […]
The aviation sector in Morocco, where 140 companies are already operating, has been boosted by two new aeronautics plants that were inaugurated Tuesday in Casablanca. One of the production plants is a new addition to the Moroccan study and manufacture of aeronautical tools (EFOA) – group “We are”, at Casablanca’s Aeropole. The second plant belongs […]
Resolution 2494 of the UN Security Council renewing for one year the mandate of the UN mission in the Sahara MINURSO has also reiterated the call on Algeria to contribute to the settlement of the Sahara conflict. Algeria, which arms, hosts and backs the Polisairo separatist front diplomatically has refused in the last four decades […]
As was expected, the UN Security Council extended the UN mission in the Sahara (MINURSO) for another year while lauding Morocco’s autonomy initiative to end the over four-decade dispute. Resolution 2494, adopted by a sweeping majority at the Security Council, Wednesday oct. 30, restored the tradition of extending the MINURSO by one year after an […]