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The Royal Armed Forces will receive the U.S. rocket launchers (HIMARS) and guided bombs (JSOW) that will enhance further Morocco’s military capabilities to encounter threats to its stability and regional peace. On Tuesday, the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency said the State Department has approved the sale to Morocco of 18 High Mobility Artillery Rocket […]
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will push this week for urgent resolution of requests by Ghana and Zambia for restructuring of their sovereign debts, as a record number of developing nations are at risk of a debt crisis, with ballooning inflation escalating borrowing costs. Yellen, who is scheduled to meet with her counterparts at this […]
Morocco is importing Brazilian beef cattle in a bid to protect its own livestock hit by consecutive droughts and reduce meat prices at home amid soaring inflation. Morocco has already received thousands of cattle from Brazil as part of a plan to buy 20,000 beef cattle over the next six months, including 3000 from Spain […]
A declassified U.S. intelligence document recognizes the Moroccan sovereignty over the Eastern Sahara stretching from Hassi Beida (Bechar province) down to Tinjoub town (southern Mhamid Ghizlane) and holds France, the former colonial power, responsible for the territorial dispute between Morocco and Algeria. The Memo declassified by the Central Intelligence Agency in 2004 strengthens Morocco’s legal […]
Morocco has attracted a new American investor, CVG, a global supplier of electrical systems, which will open a facility in Tangier in the third quarter of 2023. In a recent press release, the U.S. group said it will also open another facility in Aldama, Mexico. Both locations are expected to employ approximately 1,000 new employees […]
The security situation and risks associated with it at the regional level, and the terrorist threats, especially in the Sahel-Saharan region, were at the focus of a meeting held in Rabat Friday by Director General of Territory Surveillance, Abdellatif Hammouchi, and visiting Director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), William Burns. Talks focused on […]
South Africa will use its position as the 2023 chair of the BRICS multilateral bloc to advance the interests of African states under the theme of ‘BRICS and Africa Partnership for Mutually Accelerated Growth, Sustainable Development and Multilateralism’. “Africa supplied raw materials that contributed to the industrializations of other parts of the world. It is […]
The U.S. embassy in Algeria has reacted to the sentencing of Algerian journalist Ihsane El Kadi to five years in prison, with two years suspended, for bogus charges to muzzle vocal critics of the ruling military junta. Immediately after the announcement of the verdict over the weekend by an Algerian court, the U.S. diplomatic mission […]
The U. S. vice president Kamala Harris ended on Saturday her weeklong Africa trip that led her to Ghana, Tanzania, and Zambia. If the influence of other foreign powers loomed over her trip, she tried to deepen and reframe U.S. relationships with the continent, highlighting major steps in that direction. “My visit has convinced me […]
Spain has dealt a hard blow to Polisario and its puppeteers during the latest summit of the Ibero-American Conference of Heads of State and Governments, an organization equivalent of the Commonwealth or Francophonie. During this summit convened in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Spanish foreign minister José Manuel Albares has foiled a plot hatched by the […]