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Several petitioners took the floor before the fourth committee of the UN General Assembly to denounce the corruption of the Algeria-backed Polisario separatists and their embezzlement of the international aid destined for the sequestered Sahrawis in Tindouf Camps, Algeria. One petitioner said the sequestered Sahrawis in the Tindouf camps are held against their will by […]
Since the call made last year by King Mohammed VI of Morocco, several initiatives have been launched targeting sectors such as education, training and youth issues with the aim of reducing social and spatial disparities. In a speech at the opening of the Parliament’s fall session Friday, King Mohammed VI said through such initiatives and […]
King Mohammed has stressed the importance of military service for the young people, saying the conscription “enhances the sense of belonging to the homeland”. Addressing on Friday the members of both Houses of Parliament, at the opening of the parliamentary fall session, the Moroccan Sovereign, who spoke for the first time of the new compulsory […]
Mohammed VI Polytechnic University of Morocco’s phosphate OCP Group has signed an agreement with Finnish energy company St1 for the implementation of an afforestation pilot project aimed at combating global warming through carbon sequestration. Over a period of three years, the project will examine the carbon sequestration by trees under various controlled conditions in Morocco. […]
Saudi Minister of the Interior Prince Abdulaziz bin Saud bin Nayif bin Abdulaziz, who was received Wednesday in Rabat by King Mohammed VI, met the following day his Moroccan peer Abdelouafi Laftit during his official visit to the North African Kingdom. Talks between the two ministers focused on security cooperation prospects between the two countries, […]
Mauritania has put an end to commercial anarchy at the Algerian-Mauritanian border, when it imposed as of October 9, customs duties on all products entering Mauritania from Algeria. After the draconian security measures that led to the total closure of the Algerian-Mauritanian border, declared a prohibited military zone in July 2017, economic measures have just […]
Morocco expressed its astonishment and its categorical denial of the claims spread by some French and US media saying that the North African Kingdom has arrested Saudi Prince Turki Ben Bandar ben Mohamed Al Souad, on its soil in 2015. The ministry of justice explained, in a statement relayed by Morocco’s news agency, that the […]
South African financial services company has strengthened its foothold as Africa’s largest insurance firm with the completion of the $1.1 billion purchase of Morocco’s Saham Finances SA after regulators approved the deal. The acquisition, which was sealed on October 9 and has entered into force on October 11, will help Sanlam boost presence in 33 […]
The relentless fight against terrorism led by Morocco’s Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ), since its inception in 2015, enabled the institution to dismantle 57 terrorist cells, including eight during the year 2018. These figures bring the total number of cells dismantled in Morocco, since 2002, to 183 structures that projected terrorist attempts in the […]
Morocco and Chile have agreed to enhance trade exchanges and investment to give a new impetus to their cooperation and partnership that are growing rapidly. A Memorandum of Understanding was inked on Wednesday in Rabat by Secretary of State for Foreign Trade Rakiya Eddarhem and Chile’s Ambassador to Morocco Alex Geiger Soffia. The MoU calls […]