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French President Emmanuel Macron and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez have called for increased support and cooperation from the European Union (EU) with countries of origin, transit and destination, especially Morocco, to face the migratory challenge. The call came in the joint statement on immigration and asylum signed by Sanchez and Macron, after talks they […]
Morocco’s permanent representative to the UN in New York, Ambassador Omar Hilale was elected vice-president of the Economic and Social Council. The 54-member council, which serves as the principal organ for the socioeconomic and related work of the UN, elected Inga Rhonda King as its new president. The appointment of Omar Hilale vice-president of ECOSOC […]
French dairy company Danone announced that sales will grow by 3.3% this year despite a consumer boycott has slashed the company’s profits in Morocco. The company was able to offset setbacks in Morocco and Brazil as sales were mainly driven by Chinese consumers who snapped up more infant formula while dairy sales picked up in […]
The Algeria-backed Polisario has suffered a new defeat in the European Union Court of Justice. A ruling of the court, rendered on July 19, has rejected an appeal lodged by the separatist front in 2014 against the Morocco-EU fisheries agreement and slammed it as ineligible to lodge such an appeal. After the Court’s rulings issued […]
Migrants are increasingly shunning the Libyan routes for security reasons in favor of the closer and less risky Moroccan-Spanish land and sea borders. Some 400 migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa reached Spain on Thursday after storming a double barrier between Morocco and the Spain-occupied enclave of Ceuta, with some attacking security forces with quicklime, police told […]
Human Rights Watch denounced on Wednesday the European Union decision to entrust the Libyan coast guards with the task of managing the waves of illegal African migrants who risk their lives to reach European shores. The EU’s obstruction of nongovernmental rescues and handover of responsibility to Libyan coast guard forces is a recipe for even […]
Morocco enjoys political stability and has a forward-looking economic strategy that enabled it to emerge as a regional manufacturing and export base for international companies, said the US State Department in new report on the climate of investment across the globe. “Morocco enjoys political stability, robust infrastructure, and a strategic location, which are helping it […]
An inter-ministerial commission was created in Morocco to prevent and combat human trafficking in implementation of a law in this regards. The commission, attached to the head of government’s office, includes members from the judiciary and from the ministries of human rights, the interior and foreign affairs. The commission will meet once a year to […]
Morocco expects its GDP to grow by 3.6 percent this year as the crop year augurs well with an exceptional yield of 103 million quintals. Abundant though late rainfall starting in December ushered a good crop year with the breakdown in cereals varieties of 49.1 million quintals for soft wheat, 24.5 quintals of hard wheat […]
Morocco and the United States, two friends and allies for centuries, have reaffirmed their strong determination to enhance further their military cooperation to defend their common regional and global geostrategic interests. At a meeting held Tuesday in Rabat, Abdeltif Loudyi, Minister Delegate for National Defense and Robert S. Karem, US Assistant Secretary of Defense for […]