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A Tunis court has handed several prison sentences to numerous Islamic State Group (ISIS) fighters for joining the terror group. A first verdict by the Court of First Instance pressed two years in jail against a local construction contractor for joining the terror group in 2013. After he spent two years with the organization in […]
The Rwandan government signed an agreement with Nots under which the Dutch company will invest $70 million in a factory that will manufacture equipment for home solar kit suppliers. According to Rwanda’s Minister of Infrastructure Claver Gatete, there is an arrangement to purchase equipment for at least 100,000 households that will pay for them gradually […]
Morocco’s flag carrier RAM launched Saturday the Casablanca-Boston air route, the fourth air link operated by the airline to the US. RAM said, only few weeks after launching Casablanca – Miami flight last April, that it will operate three trips to Boston weekly on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays. With the new destination, the number of […]
The ruling party’s Mohamed Ould Ghazouani easily won Mauritania’s presidential elections marking a rare peaceful transfer of power in the African continent. Oul Ghazouani had secured 51.95% of the vote with counting completed in nearly all polling stations, the electoral commission data showed on Sunday. Ghazouani’s nearest rival, prominent anti-slavery activist Biram Dah Abeid had […]
The Permanent Secretary of the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco, Abdeljalil Lahjomri, won the Grand Prix de la Francophonie awarded by the French Academy. The prize, part of the 2019 list of 64 prizes and medals granted by l’Académie Française, was awarded to M. Lahjomri, ex-aequo with the Czech poet Petr Kral. […]
The world’s leading manufacturer of sensor and communication systems, TE Connectivity, opened its second factory at Tangier Automotive City this week. The new plant will support the company’s commercial and industrial transport solutions in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East (EMEA region). The Suisse-based company, which had a single distribution center in Morocco in 2012, […]
The Government of Colombia has praised Morocco’s autonomy plan offered for the resolution of the Sahara regional conflict, commending the serious Moroccan efforts recognized by the UN in its various resolutions adopted on this issue. “Colombia welcomes the Moroccan autonomy plan unveiled in 2007 to reach a political, realistic, lasting and consensual solution to this […]
The official opening of French car manufacturer PSA plant in Kenitra bolsters Morocco’s place as an African industrial hub offering international investors sound infrastructure, macro-economic and political stability, qualified work force and competitive ports. Morocco unseated South Africa last year from the top of the podium of African car producers. The North African country produced […]
Barbados, which froze its recognition of the so-called “SADR” in 2013, withdrew its recognition of this phantom entity, dealing another hard blow to the polisario separatist group and its Algerian supporters. The decision was announced Friday in Rabat by Barbados’ Prime Minister Mia Mottley in a joint statement released following her visit to the North […]
The World Bank announced Thursday the launch of a new program worth $500 million (4.77 billion dirhams) destined to support Moroccan authorities in the generalization of access to pre-school education, strengthening the skills and competencies of teachers and upgrading the governance of the education sector. The World Bank’s “Education Sector Support Program for Morocco” to […]