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Two car bombs struck Thursday the Libyan capital of Tripoli, near the foreign ministry and the Abu Sitta Naval Base, housing the official office the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA.) The two car bombings made no casualties, security sources report. No one claimed responsibility for the attacks. UN-sponsored GNA since entering Tripoli late March […]
A Moroccan inventor has come up with a voting machine to replace traditional ballot papers and boxes, reports say. Anis Karama, a young engineer, graduate from the Hassan I University (Settat), who is the initiator of the invention, said the machine uses the same pattern as ATM machines used in banks. In an interview with […]
Morocco’s flag carrier, Royal Air Maroc (RAM), will be operating three flights a week from Casablanca to Washington as of this September. The inaugural flight was launched on September 8 using the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, the Moroccan airline said in a statement. The Casablanca-Washington air route is the third long-haul flight launched by RAM in […]
Thanks to its comprehensive approach that addresses the root-causes of extremism along with its proactive security strategy and vigilant intelligence and security services, Morocco was described by deputies at the European Parliament in Brussels as a ‘bulwark’ against terrorism in the Mediterranean region. In this regard, a conference dubbed “Security and Stability in The Mediterranean: […]
The UN has voiced fears over a full-blown war in the Sahara after the Polisario sent armed militiamen to the buffer zone in the border area of Guergarat standing at a distance of 120 meters from Moroccan forces near the border area of Guerguarat. Tensions have flared in the area after the Polisario sent troops […]
The United States has warned Moroccan and Spanish authorities of eminent terror attack plans floating over Spain-ruled enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, reports say. The US intelligence services’ warnings, according to Moroccan Arabic Al Massae newspaper, indicate that a cell of the Islamic State group is secretly operating on the two enclaves and is proceeding […]
Morocco’s leading banking group, Attijariwafa bank, has submitted a bid to take over British Barclay’s Egypt branch, a source close to the Moroccan institution told Reuters. The transaction has been estimated at $400 million. Barclay has decided to get rid of its Egypt’s branch as part of structural adjustment policy in a move to generate […]
Morocco and Sweden are mending their strained relations after a row over a failed attempt last year in Stockholm to recognize the Algerian-based auto-proclaimed SADR republic. In a sign of easing tensions between the two countries, Swedish Foreign Minister, Margot Wallström, who is visiting Morocco, met on Wednesday her Moroccan counterpart Salaheddine Mezouar to discuss […]
US Defense Secretary Ash Carter predicted Wednesday that the Islamic State group would be defeated very soon as Libyan forces, aided by US airpower, take on the terrorist group in its last position in the city of Sirte. “I expect that they’ll eliminate …. remaining opposition shortly,” Ash Carter told a news conference in London. […]
The Tunisian government has called on the military court to suspend the Islamist Hizb ut-Tahrir party, deemed radical and a threat to security in the North African country, an official told media on Wednesday. President Caid Essebsi last week went public and asked for banning the party after it threatened “to cut heads and hands […]