First Independent Mena Newspaper
The first results of the feasibility study on the undersea power grid linking Morocco and Portugal are so far promising. The inter-continental electricity link, expected to be operational by 2020, can be achieved for a total cost of €700 million. The results of the study will be fully unveiled in two or three months, said […]
Morocco’s counterterrorism agency, the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation (BCIJ), dismantled a terror cell made up of seven extremists loyal to IS group. The IS members were arrested in the cities of Tangier and Meknes, the Interior ministry said in a statement. Initial investigations reveal that the cell members were plotting to join a branch […]
The US has designated Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, on a terrorist blacklist. The US State Department labelled Haniyeh a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist,” a title used to describe leaders of international terror organizations or perpetrators of mass-scale terror attacks. “Ismail Haniyeh is the leader and President of the Political […]
Algeria will receive more doctors from Cuba in return for suppling the communist run island with crude oil, which seeks to offset a steep decline in oil shipments from its key ally Venezuela. An agreement was signed between the two countries providing for three years of Algerian oil supplies, the Cuban news agency Prensa Latina […]
France would provide Tunisia with more than €227 million in new financing as the North African nation faces it worst economic crisis since the fall of its longtime strongman Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. According to Paris, the support, announced during a visit to Tunis by French President Emmanuel Macron, includes €177 million in loans for […]
President Fattah al-Sisi Wednesday openly warned the opposition and vowed to deal with actions that may confront his rule as the country’s opposition figures call for boycott of coming March elections that Sisi is certain to win. “Be warned. What happened seven or eight years ago, will not happen again in Egypt,” Sissi said, a […]
The recent death of three Moroccan women in a stampede at the Ceuta border crossing, has cast light on an unsustainable situation in the Spanish-occupied city in northern Morocco. From smuggling to illegal immigration and extremism, the northern city -called Sebta by Moroccans- has become a tinder box waiting to explode with the issue of […]
Morocco was listed among the top three most promising markets for the automotive industry, said Spanish insurance company “Crédito y Caucion” in a recent study. Morocco was ranked along with the Czech Republic and Vietnam as most performing emerging automotive industry markets, offering attracting investment opportunities to carmakers in 2018. “Morocco succeeded in few years […]
A crisis is brewing between the two West African neighbors, Mauritania and Senegal. It all started after Mauritanian coast guards shot dead two Senegalese fishermen. The incident has propelled Senegal to deploy a warship in its sea borders with Mauritania. Senegalese voiced their outrage at the killing of the two fishermen with hundred protesters taking […]
Morocco and the European Union have initialed in Brussels this Wednesday (January 31) a document strengthening their partnership under the farm agreement binding the two parties. “The signing of this document is part of the strengthening of the Morocco-European agricultural partnership on the basis of the farm agreement between the two parties”, said Foreign Minister […]