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S&P Global Ratings maintained Morocco’s rating unchanged at BB+ for the second year, citing the country’s strong sovereign credit, and projected that Moroccan economy will expand by 1.4% this year, after bouncing back by 7.9% in 2021. Representing the country’s ability to meet its financial obligations, the S&P rating shows that Morocco’s creditworthiness is largely […]
Spanish foreign minister José Manuel Albares met on Tuesday with UN Sahara envoy Staffan de Mistura for the fourth consecutive time since the appointment of the Italian-Swedish diplomat to the UN job in October 2021. During the meeting held in Madrid, “I reiterated Spain’s support for his mission,” said Mr. Albares in his Twitter account […]
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has promised that his country will do all it can to send more grain to Africa, as many countries on the continent depend heavily on grain imports from Ukraine and Russia while the war between the two has disrupted global supply. As he began his African tour this week in […]
Ten licenses have been issued in Morocco for the processing, marketing and exporting of cannabis and its by-products destined for medical, cosmetic and industrial use. The announcement was made Tuesday by the National agency for the regulation of activities relating to Cannabis (ANRAC) in accordance with the Law legalizing the use of this plant for […]
The United Nations said Tuesday three forces from Bangladesh have been killed in Central African Republic (CAR) by an explosive device in the north of the African country. “Three peacekeepers of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), from the Bangladeshi battalion, lost their lives on the night of […]
Spanish Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska on Tuesday commended Morocco as a “strategic partner” in the fight against terrorism, and hailed its cooperation with Spain in this field. “Morocco is an absolutely strategic partner in the fight against terrorist cells,” stressed the Spanish minister, in statements to the press, following the dismantling earlier in the day […]
Luxembourg considers the autonomy plan, presented in 2007 by Morocco, as “a good basis for a solution accepted by the parties” regarding the Sahara issue. This came in a joint statement issued after talks, Tuesday in Rabat, between Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Jean Asselborn, who is on […]
Morocco condemns “strongly” the Iranian interference in Yemen and in Arab internal affairs, said Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, insisting that Iran undermine security and stability in the Arab region, especially in Yemen, the Middle East and North Africa, and that Morocco is also a victim of this interference. Speaking at a joint press conference with […]
Morocco’s Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation (BCIJ), equivalent of U.S. FBI, announced on Tuesday the dismantling, in cooperation with Spanish security services, of a terrorist cell operating in Nador and Melilla. Two men, aged 34 and 39, were nabbed in the Moroccan Northeastern city of Nador and nine others were captured in Spanish enclave Melilla […]
Morocco and Saudi Arabia are looking into ways of stepping up economic partnership and trade exchanges in a bid to match the excellent relationship existing between the two countries’ Monarchs, governments and peoples. Cooperation prospects in various sectors of common interests were at the center of separate talks held Monday in Rabat by visiting Saudi […]