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Moroccan automotive industry is gaining momentum and growing at a rapid pace due to incentives and competitive factors attracting more and more investors and makers of car parts. These factors include Morocco’s proximity to European market, modern infrastructures, free trade zones, qualified cheap manpower, open economy and stability. French car manufacturer Peugeot-Citroën has just launched […]
French press showed vivid interest in the friendship and working trip by President Emmanuel Macron to Morocco on June 14-15 upon an invitation from King Mohammed VI, saying the “warm” visit reflects the strength of bilateral relations. Strengthening a special partnership bond, showing convergence of ideas on multiple international issues and ushering a new era […]
A South African court ruled on June 15 to maintain the seizure of Cherry Blossom, a ship carrying 55,000 tons of Moroccan Sahara phosphates bound for New Zealand, in a hostile action reflecting the use of the justice system in South Africa by the separatists to settle political matters with Morocco. The court decided that […]
The Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Fatou Bensouda has reacted to the release of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi in Libya by stressing that the arrest warrant issued in 2011 by the ICC “remains valid and Libya is obliged to immediately arrest and surrender” him “regardless of any purported amnesty law in Libya.” Saif has […]
President Essebsi of Tunisia has decided to extend the State of Emergency in the country by four months effective this Thursday June 15. The decision was made after consultations with the Prime Minister and the Parliament Speaker but details about what led to the extension were not revealed. However, a source at the presidency said […]
Lebanese former minister of Culture and current Dean of the Paris School of International Affairs is seemingly the future head of the UNSMIL as current German veteran diplomat Martin Kobler is stepping down at the end of this month, Libya Herald reports citing diplomatic sources. The 66-year old Lebanese man according to Libyan diplomatic sources […]
Newly elected French President Emmanuel Macron started a friendship and working visit to Morocco on June 14 in response to an invitation from King Mohammed VI. Macron landed in Rabat airport accompanied by his spouse Brigitte. He afterwards held a press conference following talks with King Mohammed VI on a range of issues of mutual […]
Morocco and Tunisia are listed in a group of five African countries that have first pledged reforms under the Compact with Africa Initiative, a Germany’s flagship G20-Africa Partnership project aiming to improve economic conditions across the continent. The three other countries having registered their interest with the G20 are Côte d’Ivoire, Rwanda and Senegal. More […]
Aicha Chenna, a Moroccan civil society activist defending for more than five decades the rights of unwed mothers and their babies to a decent life, has received the Monte Carlo Woman of the Year Award in Monaco in recognition for her lofty actions in promoting civil rights for a vulnerable social category. Aicha Chenna was […]
King Mohammed VI has dispatched Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita as his special envoy to several Gulf countries, part of the sovereign’s efforts to help ease the current tension poisoning relations between Qatar and its neighbors. In the context of this Gulf tour, Nasser Bourita delivered this Tuesday a verbal message from King Mohammed VI to […]