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The Spanish Ministers’ Council Friday approved a grant of €32.2 million to help Morocco in its efforts to control illegal immigration from the North African kingdom to Spanish southern shores. This aid, which aims to support international police cooperation, comes from the budget of the Spanish Home Affairs Ministry. It will support Moroccan authorities’ […]
Crown Prince Moulay El Hassan received, Thursday, in Rabat, the children from the holy city of Al Quds who are taking part in the 12th edition of the Summer Camps organized in Morocco by Bayt Mal Al-Quds Agency under the patronage of King Mohammed VI, President of the Al-Quds Committee. Fifty Palestinian children aged between […]
A new species of stegosaurian dinosaur, Adratiklit boulahfa, has been described by researchers. It is the oldest definite stegosaur ever found, announced a team at the Natural History Museum in London. Its remains were uncovered in the Middle Atlas mountains of Morocco, making Adratiklit the first stegosaur to be found in North Africa. […]
Cargotec subsidiary Kalmar has won a contract to upgrade four ZPMC ship-to-shore (STS) cranes at the Eurogate Tanger container terminal in Morocco. The modernization of cranes will enable Eurogate Tanger, located on the Strait of Gibraltar in Morocco, to manage large ships, Kalmar said in a press release. Due to its geostrategic location, […]
Moroccan player Sofyan Amrabat will play for Serie A side Hellas Verona for the 2019-2020 season after his Belgian club Bruges loaned him to the Italian team, while Atlas Lions midfielder M’Bark Boussoufa was signed by Qatari club Al-Sailiya for a two-year contract. Hellas Verona confirmed Thursday the arrival of the 23-year old Sofyan Amrabat […]
Hague-based Dutch first flight football club, ADO Den Haag, has named Moroccan national Mohammed Hamdi as new Director General with the challenge to revive the club. The club’s main shareholder, Beijing-based United Vansen, appointed the 35-year old man after former manager Mattijs Manders left the club June 1st to become the Director General of the […]
Algerian ambassador to Morocco, Mohamed Salah Dembri, who had been positioned in Rabat since 2009, had been recalled this Thursday (Aug.22) and replaced the same day by Abdelaziz Benali Chérif. Benali Chérif served as ambassador to several countries and also as the spokesperson for the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In addition to Dembri, […]
Sudan’s new prime minister, Abdalla Hamdok, was sworn in on Wednesday as leader of a transitional government at the presidential palace in Khartoum, state news agency SUNA said. Earlier on Wednesday, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, was sworn in as head of the 11-member Sovereign Council, which replaces the now-defunct Transitional Military Council. The new […]
An agreement to convert some of Tunisia’s debt to Belgium into development projects was signed Wednesday in Tunis, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The agreement, signed by Director General for Europe, Nabil Ammar, and Belgium’s ambassador to Tunisia, Michel Tilemans, provides for converting more than €2.991 million ($3.33) of Tunisia’s debt to Belgium […]
Qatar national carrier will launch in the autumn its first flights to Botswana’s capital, Gaborone, becoming the first non-African airline to fly passengers in and out the Southern African country, Simple Flying reports. The inaugural flight will take place October 27th, via Johannesburg, South Africa. The airline will run three weekly flights, Sundays, Wednesdays […]