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Morocco has stressed the need to strengthen the capacities of states and sub-regional organizations to respond to the new terrorist threats posed by ISIS in Africa, which has become now the target and focus of the terror group. “The response to the emerging threats of ISIS in Africa must prioritize support to African states and […]
U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken has called on U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to expedite the appointment of a new U.N. envoy for the Sahara in replacement of Horst Köhler, who stepped down on May 19, 2019 for “health reasons”. The call was made during the virtual meeting held Monday by the U.S. […]
Tan Tan, Mahbes and Dakhla in the Moroccan Sahara territory will be in June the venue of the African Lion military exercises bringing together Moroccan and US armies as well as soldiers from friendly states. The news was relayed by Moroccan media following a preparatory meeting between Moroccan and US senior army officials. The military […]
The OCP Group continues to strengthen its skills in the most specialized fields. Another important step has just been taken with the signing of an agreement between OCP Maintenance Solutions and the Canadian company Nucléom, a world leader in high-level industrial inspections. Thus, the subsidiary of the OCP Group specializing in predictive maintenance and […]
The African Lion 21 military exercise is “a great opportunity to strengthen one of the oldest strategic relationships of the United States”, namely with Morocco, said Thursday Maj. Gen. Andrew M. Rohling, Deputy Commanding General for Africa and US Army Southern European Task Force-Africa Commander. “As we prepare to celebrate the 200th anniversary of […]
Morocco’s Central Bureau for Judicial Investigations (BCIJ) dismantled, Thursday morning, an ISIS-linked terror cell in the eastern city of Oujda made up of four extremists. The operation was made possible thanks to collaboration with Morocco’s DGST and US Intelligence services, the BCIJ announces in a statement. This security operation is part of the ongoing […]
The Military Sealift Command (MSC) Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport USNS Yuma (T-EPF 8) arrived in Tangier, Morocco, for a port visit on March 19, 2021. Yuma is a Naval Craft sailing under the flag of the US and operating in the US Sixth Fleet to conduct interoperability training and build strategic partnerships with African partners. […]
The Washington-based Brookings Institution highlighted Morocco’s performance in the vaccination campaign against Covid-19, listing the Kingdom among the best performers in the Middle East and North Africa region. In a paper titled “One year of COVID-19 in the Middle East and North Africa: The fate of the ‘best performers’”, the Institution underlined the strong initial […]
The American Heritage Foundation Think Thank which has just published its Index of Economic Freedom 2021 ranked Algeria 162nd out of the 178 countries listed and 13th among 14 countries in the Middle East and North Africa region. Algeria’s economic freedom score is 49.7, making its economy the 162nd freest in the 2021 Index, the […]
American billionaire Mark Cuban is looking forward to investing in thriving sectors in Morocco such as Fintech and High-tech, according to several Israeli news outlets. The successful investor is the owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team of the NBA. He became a billionaire in 1998 at the age of 40 when he sold the […]