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Morocco’s police in Tangier-Med port, in collaboration with the American Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) thwarted on Thursday an international trafficking operation of psychotropic drugs. The police operating in the port seized 490,000 psychotropic tablets bearing “Tafradol” tags, said the General Directorate of National Security (DSGN) in a statement. The operation was conducted in the frame […]
American political scientist, Robert Satloff, a reference in Arab-Muslim world policy and US policy in the Middle East, expressed his strong disagreement with the approach by Republican senator and fervent defender of the Polisario Jim Inhofe, who urged President Joe Biden to reconsider the recognition of the Moroccanness of the Sahara. “I think this is […]
Moroccan director Ahmed El Maanouni’s film “Transes” (Al Hal, 1981), which recounts the stage performances of Moroccan mythic musician group Nass El Ghiwane, is among the new releases to be available soon on “The Criterion Collection” platform, an American home video distribution company which focuses on licensing “important classic and contemporary films.” “The groundbreaking […]
US President Joe Biden has reaffirmed his support for the recent normalization of relations between Israel and Arab countries, making reference to the recent establishment of diplomatic relations between Israel and four Arab countries: the United Arab Emirates, Sudan, Bahrain and Morocco. “The President emphasized US support for the recent normalization of relations between Israel […]
The US Department of State has updated Morocco’s undivided map, including the Sahara southern provinces, on its international travel information website. Regarding the international Covid crisis, the State Department website places Morocco in the yellow zone, while Algeria is cataloged in the red zone for terrorism, kidnapping as well as for the Covid 19 virus. […]
Mayor of Orlando, Florida, Buddy Dyer called for consolidating and building on the historical agreements signed last December by the United States, Israel, and Morocco, a long-standing ally of Washington and a regional pioneer in human rights and political, economic and social reforms. “I want to encourage the new Biden administration to honor the U.S.-Israel-Morocco […]
The American Jewish Committee (AJC) welcomed the US decision to recognize and back Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara. This recognition was “long-awaited, eminently sound and deserves continued support,” wrote the committee’s Chief Policy and Political Affairs Officer, Jason Isaacson, in a comment posted on the AJC website and published by the US magazine Newsweek. After […]
The US Department of Commerce announced Tuesday Feb.9 its final determination that phosphate fertilizer imports from Morocco are unfairly subsidized and decided to impose countervailing duties of 19.97 percent on US imports of Moroccan phosphate fertilizers. The OCP Group said in a press release that it acknowledges Tuesday’s final decision from the US Department of […]
The CIA and FBI thanked Morocco’s domestic intelligence agency, known as DGST, for its cooperation and partnership in countering terrorism. The US intelligence agencies expressed in letters their gratitude to the DGST in particular for “offering precise intelligence at the right time which helped arrest a dangerous terrorist,” DGST said in a statement. Last month, […]
As deaths linked to COVID-19 break records day after day, Americans are discovering an outstanding Moroccan scientist, who is on the verge of developing a universal vaccine against all types of coronavirus. After the Moroccan-American Doctor Moncef Slaoui, who was the chief adviser for the US government’s Operation Warp Speed COVID-19 vaccine program, another […]