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In the context of the innovative and voluntarist partnership between Morocco and the rest of African countries, initiated by King Mohammed VI, the Moroccan and Zambian economic communities seem resolved to be part of the efforts to give a new momentum to the two countries’ partnership as Morocco’s king is expected to pay an official […]
Algeria, lacking genuine reforms and unwilling to break away with its rentier state model of over-reliance on gas, faces dire consequences that may threaten its stability and security, warned the US public policy think tank, The American Enterprise Institute. “Algeria today looks strikingly similar to Libya, Tunisia, and Egypt in 2010. With high youth unemployment, […]
Morocco is set to increase its defense budget in support of the modernization process of its armed forces with a view of becoming Africa’s leading military power, Strategic Defence Intelligence said in a report. The report dubbed, “The Future of the Moroccan Defence Industry – Market Attractiveness, Competitive Landscape and Forecasts to 2022,” underscores that […]
Morocco and Ghana opened a new chapter in their bilateral ties with the signing of 25 cooperation agreements during a ceremony chaired by King Mohammed VI who is currently paying an official visit to Ghana and Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo. Five of the agreements were signed between the two governments to promote bilateral cooperation […]
Moroccan authorities recovered a stolen 17th century Baroque Italian painting worth up to six million euros and informed Italian authorities. Italian paper Gazzetta di Modena reported that the painting by Giovanni Francesco, known as Guercino, had been stolen from a church in the northern Italian city of Modena in 2014. It could have been recovered […]
About 170 Senegalese migrants who were in detention centers in Tripoli have been deported back to the west-African nation, local media reported on Thursday. The migrants were sent back home early Thursday from the Mitiga airport east of Tripoli under the supervision of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). “There was coordination with the immigration […]
Some 500 Sub-Saharan migrants stormed on Friday the border fence into the Spanish occupied enclave of Ceuta in northern Morocco triggering clashes with the Spanish police. Several migrants were injured as they forced their way through a gate in the fence that separates Morocco from the Ceuta enclave. “The Civil Guard at Ceuta estimates that […]
In keeping with a dynamic African foreign policy championing south-south cooperation, solidarity and co-development, King Mohammed VI is paying an official visit to Ghana as part of a new African tour that aims at adding momentum to Morocco’s commitment towards the continent’s development. The President, Government and people of Ghana rolled out a red carpet […]
King Mohammed VI of Morocco embarked as of this Thursday on a new African tour with a first stop in Accra, where he is scheduled to hold talks with Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo. The royal visit to Ghana will be an opportunity to give a new momentum to Moroccan-Ghanaian political partnership, especially so as Ghana, […]
French appeal court of Reims ruled this Thursday that the evidences provided by lawyers of King Mohammed VI of Morocco against two French blackmailers, journalists Eric Laurent and Catherine Graciet, are admissible and thus will be taken into consideration in the legal proceedings. The ruling upholds a prior decision issued by the Court of appeal […]