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The United States has transferred to the Royal Moroccan Navy two 11-meter “Metal Shark” interceptor boats. The transfer ceremony took place at the port of Agadir on Thursday, on the sidelines of the final planning event for African Lion 2022, AFRICOM’s premier military exercise – the largest on the African continent, held annually in partnership […]
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected in Morocco next week, as part of a regional tour in the Middle East, reported Wednesday, the American website Axios, which is generally well-informed. Tony Blinken is expected to travel to the Middle East at the end of his trip to Europe where he is accompanying, from […]
Soaring prices of fertilizers due to Russia-Ukraine war has pushed a bipartisan group of sixty members of the US Congress and farmers to reach out to the US International Trade Commission (ITC) to address the strain on the fertilizer supply by eliminating duties on phosphate fertilizer products imported from Morocco. US Representatives Cindy Axne, Tracey […]
Washington has stressed that it shares Spain’s position on the Sahara issue, and reiterated that the autonomy plan proposed by Morocco is “serious, credible and realistic”. “We continue to consider the autonomy plan presented by Morocco as serious, credible and realistic” and which has a clear potential to meet the aspirations of the people of […]
American president Joe Biden appointed Puneet Talwar ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Morocco, in replacement of David Fischer. The US President announced the nomination on Friday along several other strategic ambassadorial appointments. Puneet Talwar, who served previously as a senior adviser at the State Department, also held senior national security and foreign policy positions at […]
The US ambassador to Libya Thursday called on outgoing Libyan Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah to engage discussions with Fathi Bashagha, designated by the parliament last month, to avoid the escalation of violence, the US mission in Libya said in a statement. Ambassador Richard Norland travelled Wednesday to Tripoli for consultations with various Libyan top officials […]
The U.S. Congress has included again the Sahara into its aid program to Morocco in a move that translates the US administration’s recognition of the North African country’s sovereignty over the whole of its territory. The report accompanying the U.S. spending bill, signed into law Tuesday by President Joe Biden, after it was passed last […]
US has exported more gas to Spain than Algeria so far this year as new players seek a foothold in the Spanish gas market. Spanish authorities have often complained at the insufficient gas flow through the Medgaz pipeline which couldn’t match the amount the Spanish market was receiving through the Maghreb-Europe pipeline that used to […]
The Russia-Ukraine war is reshaping the global trade & supply chain as Western nations have imposed severe economic and financial sanctions on Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine. Morocco is the 3rd supplier of fertilizers to Brazil after Russia and Belarus. To avoid a shortage of the nutrients due to the international sanctions and escalating […]
The Mexico-Morocco Friendship Club has reiterated its support for the autonomy plan as the “only” solution to the regional conflict over the Sahara, and condemned the separatists’ attempts aimed at destabilizing the Sahara and Sahel region. “We reiterate our support for the Moroccan proposal for autonomy and we condemn the separatist plans which attempt to […]