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Canadian mining company, Stellar AfricaGold, announced on Monday the discovery of a third gold mineralized structure at the Tichka Est Gold Project in Morocco. “I am delighted to see that the potential of the Tichka Project is blossoming with the discovery of another new structure within the Tichka Est permits,” said Stellar Vice-President Maurice Giroux. […]
Morocco and Israel signed an economic cooperation deal aiming at facilitating investments in key industrial and innovative fields. The deal was signed in Rabat by visiting Israeli economy minister Orna Barbivai and Moroccan trade and industry minister Ryad Mezzour. Mezzour said the deal will open prospects for trade and for investments in key industries in […]
Morocco has been granted the status of “advanced partner” by the Central American Parliament (Parlacen) in recognition of the Kingdom’s key role in strengthening South-South cooperation. The announcement has been lately in Guatemala City by Parlacen’s President Daniel Ortega Reyes during a meeting with a Moroccan MP delegation led by Speaker of the House of […]
The US government officially returned a fossilized Moroccan crocodile skull to Morocco in a ceremony held at the Moroccan Embassy in Washington, DC this week. The US Embassy in Rabat announced this Thursday that the Art Crime Team of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has returned the fossilized crocodile skull to the Moroccan Embassy […]
The five-year old Moroccan boy, who died last week after being trapped in a well in the northern region of the country, continues to draw worldwide sympathy with the bereaved family and generate gratitude to the search teams. Following this tragic incident, King Mohammed VI offered in a phone call his condolences and sympathy to […]
The Biden Administration and the United Nations have reiterated their strong support to the political process seeking a lasting solution to the Sahara regional conflict. The supportive stand was voiced by U.S. top diplomat Anthony Blinken and UN envoy for the Sahara Staffan de Mistura during a meeting held Thursday in Washington. “Secretary Blinken emphasized […]
Tunisia’s minister of Tourism kick started Wednesday “Visit Tunisia” project funded by the US development agency USAID to the tune of $50 million. The project is expected to create thousands of jobs. Mohamed Moez Belhassein unveiled the project in the presence of the US envoy to the North African country Donald Bloom, in the Sbeitla […]
The World Bank Group-IMF Annual Meetings, initially scheduled to take place in Marrakech in October 2022, will take place in 2023, the two financial institutions announced in a press release this Monday. “The planned World Bank Group-IMF Annual Meetings that were scheduled to take place in Marrakesh, Morocco, in October 2022, will now take place […]
Morocco continues to enhance its stockpile of vaccines against covid-19 as it prepares to reopen its borders for inbound/outbound commercial flights starting February 7. The North African Kingdom has received over the weekend additional 1.6 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine donated by the United States through Covax program. This new donation of Pfizer doses […]
The Southern zone General Staff of the Royal Armed Forces (FAR) is hosting, from January 24 to 28, 2022, the master planning meeting of the African Lion 2022 exercise, with the participation of representatives of several countries besides Morocco and the United States. The meeting, held pursuant to the instructions of King Mohammed VI, Supreme […]