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Morocco’s OCP group has announced that it would continue supplying fertilizers to US farmers despite the US decision to impose duties on phosphate fertilizer imports from Morocco. The US International Trade Commission (ITC) earlier this week rendered a decision that will result in the application of a 19.97% countervailing duty on phosphate fertilizer imports from […]
The Washington-based Middle-East Institute (MEI) has described the political Algerian system as ossified as “the aging leaders reject any genuine opening” while massive street protests are resuming. ”Domestically, Algeria’s leaders are old and President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, strongly backed by the army, is ailing (…) The political system is ossified but the aging leaders reject any […]
The US will donate $2.5 million to Morocco in support of its sustained vaccination campaign, the largest in Africa and one of the top 10 most successful in the world. A spokesperson for the US embassy in Rabat said that USAID has given Morocco 10.7 million dollars in support of its coronavirus response. It is […]
The Republic of Suriname has decided to open an embassy in Rabat and a consulate in Dakhla, in order to give impetus to bilateral relations and cooperation with Morocco. The announcement was made by visiting Surinamese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Albert Ramdin, at a press briefing on Thursday in Rabat. The Surinamese top diplomat […]
Former Brazilian President Fernando Collor De Mello stressed, in a recent letter to US President Joe Biden, the importance of the US decision to recognize Morocco’s full sovereignty over its Sahara as a new dynamic towards a lasting solution to this artificial conflict. “I would like to express to Your Excellency my satisfaction after the […]
Morocco was the largest Arab exporter to Mexico in 2020, with more than $298 million of products exported, according to the Mexican Foreign Trade Council (COMCO). The Kingdom’s exports are mainly made up of calcium phosphates, vehicles and planes spare parts as well as fishery products. Moroccan exports to the second largest economy in Latin […]
Morocco is looked at as a trusted security partner by global powers as it modernizes its forces and steps up exercises at sea, land and air, the most recent took place with France and the US. During the last few weeks, Morocco hosted off its coasts major bilateral military exercises with France and later with […]
The extension and conversion works of the Institute Specializing in Aeronautics and Airport Logistics Trades (ISMALA) in Nouaceur, near Casablanca, were launched on Thursday. The works are co-financed by the US Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) which invested in the project 59.5 million DH ($6.6 million) through its MCA-Morocco “Charaka Fund”. Morocco’s Office for Vocational […]
Morocco’s Royal Navy and Air Forces are participating with the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group in a maritime exercise aimed at enhancing their joint interoperability to advance US-Morocco interests, security and stability in Europe and Africa. Code-named “Lightning Handshake”, the exercise, which is taking place during this first week of March, includes several […]
Since he assumed power in January, US President Joe Biden has received several letters from politicians, MPs, elected representatives, and civil society activists from the United States, Europe, Africa and Latin American, expressing backing to the US recognition of the Moroccanness of the Sahara and underscoring that the resolution of the Sahara conflict will ensure […]