First Independent Mena Newspaper
CMA CGM, a world leader in maritime transport, has launched a new service linking Morocco to several West African countries, including Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Benin and Liberia. By launching this new shipping line, the French group, Compagnie Maritime d’Affrètement-Compagnie Générale Maritime (CMA CGM), supports the North African Kingdom’s economic development and revs up the commercial […]
Four days after Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar announced that the Libyan National Army (LNA) has liberated the city of Benghazi from terrorism, clashes continued till Sunday in the Sidi Akribesh neighborhood of the Sabri district with at least 20 soldiers killed by “terrorists” according to Colonel Miloud Zwei, LNA spokesman. Army sources claimed on Sunday […]
Few days after the launch of a migrant regularization campaign in Algeria, a new Algerian political leader and former Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia expressed heinous statements verging on racism and hate speech against Sub-Saharan migrants in the country. Speaking to Ennahar TV station, Ouyahya, Secretary General of RND political party, described Sub-Saharan migrants as a […]
Would-be migrants are increasingly avoiding passing through conflict-wracked Libya on their treacherous sea journey to Europe in favor of the more peaceful and closer western Mediterranean route between Morocco and Spain. The UN Refugee Agency has warned Spain to prepare for an upcoming surge in migrant arrivals as the number of mostly sub-Saharans who made […]
The European Investment Bank has granted a loan of €70 million to the Fez-based Euromed University for the construction and the equipment of a campus. An agreement was signed by officials from the Bank and the University last week to bolster the finances of the Euro-Mediterranean Institute, whose honorary Chairman is King Mohammed VI. Over […]
Algeria’s living-dead President Abdelaziz Bouteflika gave an address on the occasion of his country’s Independence Day asking citizens to prepare for tough times ahead as state coffers dwindle. Bouteflika urged the Algerian people to prepare for the pinch of economic reality as the state will cut vital subsidies and increase taxes. The speech clearly revealed […]
For the third time in a year, French justice has condemned the self-proclaimed kick boxing champion Zakaria Moumni for defamation against the Moroccan king’s private secretary, Mounir El Majidi. Last Wednesday (July 5), the 17th Civil Chamber of the Paris High Court sentenced Zakaria Moumni for defamation in the lawsuit brought against him by Mounir […]
Morocco stands as a model in the MENA region when it comes to promoting green growth, said Climate Tracker, the world’s leading climate journalism portal, in an article entitled “Climate Change Threatens Uninhabitable Conditions for the Middle East and North Africa.” “Morocco has been a good example,” wrote Lina Yassin on Climate Tracker highlighting that […]
Rising global temperatures could trigger an abrupt transition in weather patterns in Africa’s driest region, the Sahel, through an increase in rainfall that would turn the area green within decades, said scientists in a report published in Earth System Dynamics. The Sahel, home to 100 million people, has seen worsening extreme weather, including more frequent […]
Faithful to its disinformation campaigns and propaganda methods, the Polisario issued a statement condemning Morocco’s adoption of a legal text providing for the demarcation of its maritime boundaries with the Spanish Canary Islands in the Atlantic ocean. In a statement, the Algerian-based Polisario alleged that the draft law adopted by the Government Council on Thursday […]