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Morocco has granted four exploration licenses for gold mines to the Canadian company Stellar AfricaGold Inc. part of its plans to upgrade the exploitation of its natural resources. The Canadian exploration company, which explores precious metals, has announced it secured the four new exploration permits to expand operations in Tichka, at approximately 80 kilometers south-southwest […]
The UN Secretary General’s personal envoy for the Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, was in Rabat on Thursday, where he started his first tour of the region since taking office in November 2021. Reiterating its support for the UN envoy, the Biden administration, part of the continuity of the American recognition, in December 2020, of the […]
Apple has joined a number of international organizations, media and other brands that have published world or regional maps featuring an undivided map of Morocco, including its Sahara provinces. Actually in its latest update of Apple Maps, the company has confirmed Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara, displaying an undivided map of the Kingdom, with no […]
Prominent U.S. congressmen have set up a bipartisan caucus to strengthen and expand the U.S. brokered Abraham accords which helped to normalize relations between Israel, Morocco, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Sudan. The new caucus was announced lately in a joint statement by four senators and four members of the House of Representatives. In […]
Police in Ecuador seized 656.7 kg of cocaine dissimulated in a container bound for Tunisia, Business News reports. Fausto Buenaño Castillo, Chief of the Latin American country’s police, told media that security forces found the cocaine hidden in a container supposed to carry banana, during an operation dubbed “Víspera”. The drug shipment, estimated at $42 […]
Morocco’s exports to Brazil have reached a record level estimated at about $2 billion in 2021, according to data of the Brazilian Ministry of Economy. The data suggest that Morocco has exported products worth more than $1.9 billion to the Latin American country, which represents a record level never reached before since 1997 when Moroccan […]
Morocco has authorized the emergency use of Molnupiravir, becoming one of the first countries in the world to approve this antiviral drug developed by the US pharmaceutical company Merck. The announcement was made by Director of Medicines and Pharmacy at the Ministry of Health and Social Protection, Ms. Bouchra Meddah. The protocol for the treatment […]
Samia Errazouki, a US-Moroccan citizen and former journalist, used Foreign Policy to spit her venom on its motherland (Morocco) paying lip service to the inaudible Algerian lobby in Washington. In a hateful article entitled, “Morocco’s Diplomatic Morass”, Errazouki usurped the position of a Foreign Policy journalist in seeking comments from the anti-Moroccan Algerian lobby in […]
Morocco’s acquisition of two combat-proven unmanned aerial systems, the Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drones and Israeli Harop loitering munitions, gives the North African Kingdom a decisive edge in any future conflict, says U.S. magazine Forbes. The new press report is expected to exacerbate further the Algerian military junta’s concerns to see their neighbor enhancing its military […]
The Head of Government, Aziz Akhannouch, welcomed, Thursday in Rabat, the substantial progress made in the deployment of various projects under the cooperation program “Compact II”, concluded between Morocco and the United States, represented by the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MMC). Chairing the work of the 12th session of the Strategic Orientation Council (COS) of the […]