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Mitsui Kinzoku Act Tanger Maroc SARL, subsidiary of Mitsui Kinzoku Act has launched in Tangiers the construction of its latches production plant that enables the Japanese firm to position itself closer to its European market. The future plant located in Tangiers Free Zone Automotive City will cost the functional automobile parts manufacturer around €12.5 million. […]
Former Algerian leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika in a letter to the nation has begged for forgiveness over wrongdoings that occurred during his two-decade stay in power, the state-run news agency APS reported. The reign of Algeria’s Abdelaziz Bouteflika came to a sorry close on Tuesday as his 20-year tenure as president ended in a badly-lit room […]
Columbia has appointed a new chief of its diplomatic mission in Rabat as the Latin American country raises the level of relations between the two countries with Bogota’s full support to Morocco’s territorial integrity and recognition of its sovereignty over the disputed territory of the Sahara. Del Pilar Gomez will head the Columbian mission in […]
Pilots of the 737 Max that crashed in Ethiopia last month initially followed Boeing’s standard emergency procedures to try to get control of the plane, before the crash, Ethiopia’s transport minister told a news conference in Addis Ababa on Thursday, as she delivered the first official report on the disaster. According to Dagmawit Moges, the […]
South Sudan is targeting an increase in crude oil production of 70,000 bpd by June 2019, the country’s Minister of Petroleum, Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth said on Wednesday. The statement follows a tour at the El-Nar, El-Toor and Manga oilfields last weekend. Gatkuoth encouraged the China Petroleum Engineering and Construction Corporation to fast track the rehabilitation […]
The abdication of ailing President Bouteflika has been met with celebrations on the streets of Algiers but his downfall only confirms the power-grab of the military over the Algerian political scene. The six weeks of protests that have rocked Algeria demanding the stepping down of the ailing President and the oligarchs in power were conducive […]
Head of Morocco’s BMCE Bank, the third largest bank in the country, criticized the sale of Saham insurance business to South Africa’s Sanlam as detrimental to Morocco’s interest. Speaking at a press conference, head of BMCE Othmane Benjeloun deplored the sale worth $1.1 billion on grounds that South Africa supports the Polisario separatists. “We end […]
Parliamentary vote for a long-awaited for law on education reform has stalled once again as the majority Islamist party refuses to vote in favor of some of the provisions of the new text notably the introduction of French as a language of teaching scientific subjects. The education Minister Said Amzazi insists on using French as […]
The UN Secretary General reported to the UN Security Council the repeated protests taking place in the Polisario-run Tindouf camps in Algeria, with the participation of hundreds of people living in these camps and the continuous violations by the separatist front of the Military Agreements and the Security Council Resolutions as well as its hampering […]
The European Union “recognizes the special importance of the holy places of Jerusalem for the three monotheistic religions,” said an EU spokesman, in reaction to the signing last Saturday in Rabat of the Appeal of Al-Quds by King Mohammed VI, Commander of the Faithful and Chairman of Al-Quds Committee, and Pope Francis. “The EU recognizes […]