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Malawi has reiterated Wednesday its unwavering and continued support for Morocco’s territorial integrity and commended the Kingdom’s efforts to reach a political solution for this regional dispute. The remarks were made by Malawian Foreign Minister Eisenhower Nduwa Saxon Mkaka during a video conference meeting with his Moroccan peer Nasser Bourita. According to a […]
Morocco and Nigeria reaffirmed, Tuesday, their commitment to build a strategic partnership in various sectors, for the benefit of both nations. During a videoconference meeting, the two countries’ Foreign Ministers Nasser Bourita and Geoffrey Onyeama expressed their willingness to develop bilateral cooperation and raise exchanges to a higher level. They stressed, in this connection, the […]
The government of Djibouti has reaffirmed its strong backing to Morocco’s territorial integrity and to a negotiated political solution to the Sahara issue under the exclusive aegis of the United Nations. The stand was voiced Tuesday by Djibouti’s foreign minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf during talks he held remotely with Moroccan peer Nasser Bourita. Rabat […]
The African Development Bank will grant Morocco nearly one million US dollars intended to support efforts to improve the business climate and to strengthen the country’s resilience in the face of COVID-19 economic crisis by accelerating the country’s post-pandemic recovery. The grant agreement was signed Monday by Morocco’s Ministry of Economy & Finance and […]
The French Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire started Wednesday evening a two-day visit to Abidjan with talks on bolateral issues on top of the agenda. Officially, this trip will be an opportunity to strengthen Franco-Ivorian economic and financial cooperation. Bruno Le Maire exchanged Thursday morning with his counterpart Adama Coulibaly on the […]
Ambassadors, Permanent Representatives of member states of the Support Group for Morocco’s Territorial Integrity in Geneva denounced, Wednesday, attempts by a small group of countries to politicize the debates at the Human Rights Council (HRC) to challenge the Kingdom’s sovereignty over its Sahara. Speaking at a virtual meeting of the Group with the High Commissioner […]
Three weeks before the summit on the financing of sub-Saharan African economies that will take place on May 18 in Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron has called for a “New Deal” for Africa. How to react to a “very strong slowdown” of African economies caused by the Covid-19 crisis? Yesterday’s recipes are ineffective, said Emmanuel […]
Sudan has frozen a military agreement with Russia which includes the establishment of a Russian military base on the Red Sea coast of the African country, a top Sudanese official told Turkish news agency Anadolu. The official who asked not to be named because not allowed to talk on the matter, told the Turkish news […]
The Moroccan and Israeli ambassadors to the United Nations Omar Hilale and Gilad Erdan co-chaired on Thursday a high-level virtual conference on “Planting for the future: Food security and innovative agriculture”. Co-organized by the Permanent Missions of Morocco and Israel to the UN, the meeting took place on the sidelines of the 54th session of […]
The end of the era of expensive oil has put strains on the budgets of Nigeria and Algeria pushing the first to seek foreign borrowing while the latter adamantly sticks to zero borrowing policy at the expense of starving its population. Nigeria, which has a more diversified economy compared to Algeria, is knocking on the […]