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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 […]
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 […]