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The US authorities announced on Friday a $5 million reward for information leading to the location, the identification, the arrest or conviction of Adnan Abou Walid al-Sahraoui, an ex-member of the Algeria-backed polisario separatist front and current chief of ISIS in Great Sahara (ISIS-GS) that killed four Green Berets in a 2017 ambush in Niger. […]
American company Spirit Aero systems is reportedly the major bidder for the acquisition of the two bombardier plants in Morocco and Northern Ireland, said on Friday Reuters, citing sources familiar with the matter. However, no deal has so far been sealed and the negotiations are still underway. Both the Canadian aerospace firm and Spirit […]
Morocco reiterated its stand in support of religious dialogue and tolerance while reaffirming its rejection of the use of religion for political aims. “The manipulation of religion is the first step towards incitement to hatred and violence,” said Mounia Boucetta, Secretary of State to the Foreign Minister, in an address before the first regional […]
The US commended Morocco’s leadership in preserving religious heritage sites, highlighting the history of the country in protecting religious minorities and promoting inter-faith dialogue, US Ambassador at large for International Religious Freedom Samuel Brownback said. “Morocco has done great work to preserve Jewish sites around the country,” he said in a speech at the opening […]
The Caribbean is on the footstep of democratic countries in Latin America that have joined the rank of countries supporting Morocco’s legitimate rights to sovereignty over the Sahara. On the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, another Caribbean country, Antigua and Barbuda added its voice to many countries in the region that support Morocco’s territorial […]
The Commander of the US Africa Command, General Stephen Townsend, is undertaking this week his first multi-country regional visit to West Africa. On Tuesday, General Stephen Townsend met in Ouagadougou with President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré of Burkina Faso and several other Burkinabe and allied military leaders. Meetings focused on building a comprehensive understanding […]
Protection of Morocco’s air and land borders will be enhanced further with the purchase of various Tow -2A missiles for $776 million and additional F-16 ammunition for $209 million. The State Department announced on Thursday its approval of the sale to Morocco of 2,401 Tow 2A, Radio Frequency (RF) Missiles (BGM-71-4B-RF); and twenty eight Tow […]
The dismissal of US national security adviser John Bolton by President Donald Trump was received as a good news for Morocco and a blow for the Polisario separatists and their mentor Algeria who nurtured a false hope to see the US adopt an anti-Moroccan stand on the Sahara issue. Bolton has on multiple times showed […]
President Donald Trump has received the resignation of his national security adviser John Bolton, a warmonger whose stands have leaned towards the separatist thesis in the Moroccan Sahara. Trump said in a tweet that he asked Bolton to resign because his services are no longer needed. “I disagree strongly with many of his suggestions as […]
OCP Group and the National Basketball Association (NBA) tied a new multiyear partnership aiming at expanding the NBA Junior League programs in Morocco and Rwanda, but also at building new basketball courts in Khouribga and Benguerir (Morocco) and in Kigali, the Rwandan capital, while using the transformative power of basketball to empower Moroccan and Rwandan […]