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Wirecard, the global innovation leader for digital financial technology, is handling payments for online and travel agency bookings for Royal Air Maroc, Morocco’s national airline, and one of Africa’s leading and fastest growing airlines, Wirecard announced Tuesday in a press release. Royal Air Maroc is set to join the oneworld alliance in mid-2020, and has […]
The United Kingdom is to send a contingent of 250 troops to Mali next year, to support the UN’s peacekeeping operation in the country, MINUSMA, announced the United Nations. A statement, posted on the UK Ministry of Defense website on Monday, said that the soldiers were being deployed in recognition of increased instability in the […]
Nigerien deputy chief of staff, General Oumarou Namata has been appointed commander of the G5 Sahel anti-jihadist force, succeeding Mauritanian General Hanena Ould Sidi. The decision to replace General Hanena was taken by the heads of state of the countries making up this group, in the wake of a terrorist attack against the Headquarters of […]
The Tunisian defense ministry Monday announced a Libyan military aircraft belonging to the rebel army of Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar landed in Mednine, southeastern Tunisia, due to a technical failure. According to a statement issued by Haftar’s forces, the plane, a L39 jet, took off from the Barak military airport in the south of the […]
The luxury, refinement, elegance and excellence of the Royal Mansour, Marrakech, earned him a new prestigious award. After winning the 2019 Conde Nast Traverler Award for Best Urban Hotel, the Royal Mansour was named “Best Hotel in North Africa and Middle East” by the American travel magazine, Travel + Leisure. Two other hotels in the […]
Kenya’s finance minister was arrested on Monday on corruption charges in the East African nation. Mr Henry Rotich turned himself in to authorities on Monday and is currently in police custody, according to the country’s Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Haji. The charges against Rotich relate to a project to build two hydroelectric dams in […]
Egypt’s flag carrier Egypt Air carried out Sunday its first flight to Douala, Cameroon, with the Central African country becoming the third new destination of the airline after new routes to Rwanda and Côte d’Ivoire. The maiden flight to Cameroon’s second city came from N’Djamena, Chad, via Cairo. The airline in a statement said it […]
Tunisian Security forces nabbed Sunday three men disguised under niqab in capital Tunis. The men who stoke fear were summoned for inspection but they ran away. Security forces however managed to arrest them, tunisienumerique.com reports After search, the men turned out to be thieves. They reportedly disguised in view of stealing shops. Security forces discovered […]
The new concept of authority laid down by King Mohammed VI since he took the reign in 1999 has underpinned all reforms launched in Morocco in the last two decades. The new authority concept paved the way for political and administrative reforms that put Morocco on track to meet the aspirations of citizens and address […]
Morocco has allowed 128 fishing trawlers mostly from Spain to fish in its territorial waters after a landmark fisheries agreement with the EU. The decision was made following the meeting of the first joint commission of the Morocco-EU fisheries agreement, held in Rabat, last week. The meeting defined the technicalities to issue the fishing licenses […]