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Abdellatif Hammouchi, director-general of the national police and of the homeland intelligence services, the DGST (Formerly known as the DST, Direction de surveillance du territoire), represented Morocco at the 12th edition of the Middle East leading International event for homeland security & Civil Defence, Milipol Qatar 2018. On the sidelines of the event, held in […]
UN special envoy to Libya Ghassan Salamé held talks Monday in Rabat with Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, focused on the Libya crisis. At a joint press briefing following the meeting, Bourita renewed Morocco’s support to an inter-Libyan solution under the aegis of the UN to achieve a final settlement of the crisis in the North […]
Morocco will become in 2021 the first country in Africa to use the F16 Viper fighter jets, a well-informed local news outlet reported. An order has been placed by Morocco’s Royal Air Force to acquire 12 of the multi-purpose fighter jets, le360.ma reported. “Morocco was one of the first African countries to express interest in […]
A 30-year old woman blew herself up on Monday near a police patrol in a busy avenue in Tunisia’s capital. Twenty people were injured in the suicide bombing, 15 law enforcement agents and 5 civilians including two children, according to a latest report released by the spokesman of the Directorate General of National Security, Walid […]
King Mohammed VI has attached utmost priority to overhauling the country’s vocational training system to enable the youth to easily integrate the job market and contribute to Morocco’s social and economic development. After he stressed on multiple speeches the need for addressing the mismatch between training and the job market requirements, the King had asked […]
Algeria’s ailing President Abdul Aziz Bouteflika, in power since 1999, will be candidate to his own succession in 2019. The no-news was announced Sunday by the head of Bouteflika’s ruling National Liberation Front Djamel Ould Abbes. Outgoing President Bouteflika will be the party’s candidate at the presidential elections set for April 2019, the FLN Secretary […]
Moroccan security services have announced the arrest Saturday of an engineering student with ties to the jihadist terror group, ISIS. The arrest was made in the city of Mohammedia (near Casablanca) by Morocco’s FBI, Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation (BCIJ). According to Moroccan authorities, the captured ISIS member was planning a terrorist plot to undermine […]
Morocco’s migration policy stands as a success story and serves as a model for other countries in the region, said Minority Leader at the Polish Senate Bogdan Klich. Klich, also a former Polish defense minister, told the audience at an international conference in Rabat that Morocco stood out by hosting an important number of immigrants […]
Spanish Foreign Minister has just dealt a hard blow to the Polisario, saying he supports UN efforts to settle the Sahara conflict and European Union’s agreements with Morocco. He also affirmed that Spain has no legal or administrative responsibility in Western Sahara, deflating thus the Polisario’s claims. The Spanish Socialist Government’s Foreign Minister, José Borrell, […]
Morocco’s official time will stay GMT plus one as the country decided to keep daylight saving time all year long. The decision was met with criticism on social media as many activists denounced a lack of popular survey by the government before the adoption of the new time. The government said that it is better […]