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Sudan’s nominal Prime Minister has named 14 people to join his cabinet, in a landmark move that translates the implementation of the power-sharing deal signed last month. Sudan last month made a breakthrough as civilians, gathered under the banner of Forces for Freedom and Change grouping, and Military Transitional Council sealed a power-sharing deal after […]
The newly elected Speaker of Colombia’s House of Representatives Carlos Alberto Cuenca, one of the signatories of the resolution adopted in 2018 by the Colombian parliament backing Morocco’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, has renewed his full support to Morocco’s supreme interests. At a meeting held Monday in Bogota with Moroccan ambassador to Colombia Mrs. Farida […]
The French container transportation and shipping company, CMA CGM, is enhancing its shuttle service in Morocco, offering its clients as of Sept.12 a new stopover in the southern Moroccan port of Dakhla. The global shipping group said it made the move in order to continue developing business opportunities in Morocco and support Moroccan clients with […]
The United States has offered Morocco 100 light military vehicles. Fifty of them are already on the way to the kingdom, while fifty other trucks will join the fleet of vehicles of the Moroccan Army later this week, reveals FAR-Maroc, a website specializing in Defense matters. The offer of the tactical transportation vehicles is part […]
The leadership of the Algerian-backed separatist group, the Polisario, is facing a new challenge to its grip on the Tindouf camps as Sahraouis there stage unprecedented protests in their intensity. The protesters, fed up with the siege they have suffered for decades by the Polisario militias, stormed into the office of the separatist group leader, […]
Three terrorists, including two Algerians, were killed Monday in Hidra, governorate of Kasserine, in a proactive operation involving National Guard and national army units, the Tunisian Interior Ministry said in a press release. Chief of Hidra National Guard district, Lieutenant Néjib Allah Cherni, was killed in the exchange of fire. This proactive operation […]
ENGIE expands its decentralized energy offering in Africa through the acquisition of Mobisol, a pioneer of off-grid solar solutions, the company announced this Tuesday in a press release. Mobisol has operations in Tanzania, Rwanda, and Kenya and has installed more than 150,000 solar home systems, providing clean and reliable energy to over 750,000 people in […]
Head of the Algerian army has called on electoral commission to hold presidential elections before end of the year as the country drags into political instability since the fall of former leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika forced to step down early April. Lieutenant General Ahmed Gaid Salah, according to state television, urged the electoral body to “issue […]
Turkish writer Mohamed Kaddo Afendi Oglu, an expert in Arab-Turkish relations, has confirmed the connections of the Polisario with terror networks threatening the Sahara-Sahel region’s peace and stability. The Turkish writer reached the same conclusion as many pundits and as the Wall Street Journal, which has sounded lately the alarm bell against the dangers […]
Some 2.765 million Moroccans living abroad, mainly in Europe, entered Morocco this summer according to figures released on August 30. Head of the Government Saad Eddine EL Otmani said in a tweet the number of Moroccans returning to their homeland in the summer increased 3.4% compared to last year’s summer season. “This reflects a growing […]