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King Mohammed VI will travel to Addis Ababa to attend the African Union summit on January 30 to make the case for Morocco’s strong determination to regain its natural place within Africa’s institutional family. The announcement was made by Morocco’s designated Head of Government, Abdelilah Benkirane, in a statement to the Press. Benkirane also said […]
Algeria, the first African producer of natural gas and member of OPEC cartel, is still unable, after 50 years of independence, to provide heating to its pupils in schools. The Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights (LADDH) denounced the alarming situation of thousands of pupils shivering from cold in their classroom while their […]
The Royal Moroccan Air Force will upgrade its fleet of F16 fighter jets with electronic warfare systems supplied by Harris Corporation under a contract worth $91 million. The company said in a statement that it will equip the F16 fighters of the Royal Moroccan Air Force with the Advanced Integrated Defensive Electronic Warfare Suite (AIDEWS), […]
Khalifa Ghwell, leader of ghost Libyan Dawn Administration Thursday announced the overthrow of the UN-backed Government of National Accord after he seized some government ministries, reports say. Militia men aligned with the former Tripoli leader seized three ministries, namely those of Defense, Labor, and Martyrs’ Families, while GNA leader Faiez Serraj is away in Cairo […]
Russia, which has vehemently opposed NATO intervention that overthrew the decades-long Libyan dictator Gaddafi, sees new opportunities in the power vacuum in Libya where it tacitly endorses the all-powerful Libyan General Khalifa Haftar. As part of a larger Russian strategy to bolster its presence in Libya, and through it in the Mediterranean, Haftar, who leads […]
As the 28th African summit due in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) by end of January gets closer, the Algeria-backed Polisario separatist front is becoming more and more nervous and agitated. The reason of this growing anxiety is that Morocco is expected to rejoin the African Union during the summit as nearly 40 out of the 54 […]
The Atlantic Council published a paper highlighting the pertinence of Morocco’s African foreign policy led by King Mohammed VI which made the Kingdom the commercial gateway to the continent. The analysis dubbed “Africa’s Economic Prospects in 2017: Ten Countries to Watch”, contrasts the low growth in the main continent’s economic hubs with the success of […]
A Tunisian man locked up for minor offenses, has been convicted for pushing fellow inmates to travel to Syria for jihad. The man aged 34 and married to an Italian converted Muslim woman has been convincing other inmates to travel to Syria once they finish observing their prison terms, local media quoted Augusto Zaccariello, a […]
Moroccan authorities have warned tailors and vendors of niqab and burqa to cease manufacturing and selling the full veil garment for security reasons, local media said. Although the Interior Ministry has not yet commented on the ban, several vendors and tailors of the burqa in different towns and cities received verbal and written warnings to […]
Morocco won the prize of “Best Potential Destination 2016” awarded by the Global Times Forum, an annual event held in Beijing by the leading English-speaking media outlet in China, the Global Times. The Prize is awarded every year to the best destination on the basis of three criteria: visa procedure, tourist attraction rate and tourist […]