First Independent Mena Newspaper
Heads of consular missions accredited to Laayoune expressed, on Thursday, their respective countries’ wish to boost economic cooperation and further expand investment opportunities with Morocco. Consuls of several African and Arab countries in Laayoune underlined the need to upgrade the strong political and diplomatic relations with the Kingdom to the level of a strategic partnership. […]
Japan has offered Morocco a loan of $200 million to back the coronavirus response program. An agreement was signed in this regards between Morocco’s finance ministry and Japan’s international cooperation agency (JICA). This loan aims at helping the government deal with the health, social and economic repercussions of the pandemic. JICA has been operating in […]
Belgium and Japan have stressed the paramount importance of ensuring the freedom of movement and trade between Morocco and Mauritania. The two countries’ statements came following the intervention of the Moroccan army that put an end to the Polisario’s violations in Guerguarat. Polisario sent militiamen to the region on October 21, resulting in a […]
King Mohammed VI has renewed Morocco’s solidarity with the Palestinian people and continued support to their legitimate rights in order “to establish an independent Palestinian State, with East Jerusalem as its capital – a State open to all around it and to all faiths,” warning that unilateral measures in the occupied Palestinian territories, including East […]
Morocco’s approach to address security and humanitarian challenges in the Sahel region is based on the indivisible triad of “security, human development and training,” said Moroccan Junior Foreign Minister Nezha El Ouafi. The Moroccan approach to address security and humanitarian challenges in the Sahel is based, as defined by King Mohammed VI, on a three-dimension […]
Morocco was re-elected member of the Independent Permanent Commission on Human Rights (IPHRC) of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), at the closing Saturday of the 47th session of the OIC Ministerial Council, held in Niamey, Niger. The re-election of Morocco, in the person of Abderazak Rouane, is a recognition of the Kingdom’s efforts in […]
Just a few weeks before the launch of the large-scale vaccination campaign in Morocco, a Chinese delegation visited Casablanca, where a first batch of vaccines was delivered, according to media reports. A shipment of one million doses of the vaccine from the Sinopharm laboratory arrived in Casablanca where Moroccan officials welcomed representatives from the Chinese […]
Morocco has called Islamic states to adopt a multidimensional solidarity approach to mitigate the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, taking into account the development disparities between OIC Member States. The call was launched by Moroccan Junior Foreign Minister Nezha El Ouafi who is leading the Moroccan delegation to the 47th session of the […]
The Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC) commended, Friday, King Mohammed VI, president of the Al-Quds Committee, for his pivotal role in ensuring the protection of the city’s holy shrines. The OIC ministerial council, which is convening its 47th session in Niamey, Niger, this November 27-28, also welcomed the outstanding […]
Morocco reaffirmed, Friday in Niamey, its unwavering support to the peace process as a strategic choice for the settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Morocco reaffirms its unwavering position supporting the peace process as a strategic choice to achieve a just, lasting and comprehensive settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on the basis of the two-state solution […]