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The Moroccan-Saudi Joint military Committee held on Tuesday its second meeting in Rabat to review cooperation between the two countries’ armed forces during the 2018 & 2019 period and set their joint program for 2020. The meeting was co-chaired by Lt. General, Inspector General of the Royal Armed Forces (FAR) and the Saudi General, Chief […]
Saudi Arabia Sunday announced it has taken leadership of the Group of Twenty or G20, until the meeting of its leaders in the kingdom next year in November. The Gulf country takes over from Japan and becomes the first Arab country to assume the presidency of the powerful organization encompassing leaders of developed and developing […]
Moroccan businessman Mohamed Horani, CEO of payment solutions company HPS, has been appointed Honorary Consul-General of Singapore government in Casablanca, with jurisdiction throughout Morocco. In his new task, Mr. Horani, 65, will support the work of Singapore’s Non-Resident Ambassador to Morocco, Mr. George Goh, says a statement released Sunday by Singapore’s ministry of foreign Affairs. […]
The deepening trade deficit with Turkey and the increasing complaints of Moroccan enterprises have finally pushed Morocco’s trade and industry minister Moulay Hafid El Alamy to ask for a rebalancing of the Free Trade Agreement with Turkey. Speaking in Istanbul, the Moroccan minister told his Turkish peer, Ruhsar Pekcan that Morocco wants a review of […]
King Mohammed VI has warned that the continuing Israeli practices in violation of international legitimacy and international humanitarian law in the occupied Palestinian territories fuel tension, violence, instability and sow the seeds of religious conflict and hatred. These Israeli practices include further settlement activities in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, depriving Palestinians of a […]
Russia has reaffirmed Tuesday its willingness to deepen political dialogue with Morocco on the settlement of the Sahara issue. This came in a phone conversation Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had with his Moroccan peer Nasser Bourita. The two men discussed ways to bolster bilateral relations and the upcoming Joint Intergovernmental Commission to be convened […]
Chinese Citic Dicastal group, the largest producer of aluminum wheels in the world, launched a second factory worth €350 million in Morocco’s Kenitra, one year after opening a plant in the same area. Part of a project dubbed, Citic Dicastal Africa, the new plant stretches over a surface area of 30,000 square meters and will […]
Morocco has renewed its unwavering support for the Palestinian cause and for the legitimate right of the Palestinian people to establish an independent and viable State. This came during an extraordinary meeting of the Council of Arab Foreign Ministers, held to discuss the US government’s new stand on Israel’s West Bank settlements that it no […]
South Africa has called on home defense industry corporates to reduce their dependence on Saudi, Emirati, Algerian and Omani customers as it holds up arm sales to these countries over their refusal for inspection in compliance with contract agreements, reports say. The National Conventional Arms Control Committee (NCACC), a group of ministers and deputy ministers […]
Marrakech is hosting INTERPOL’s fourth meeting for Chiefs of Police from the Middle East and North Africa, with ways of tackling organized crime and terrorism high on the agenda. With the MENA region being one of the fastest growing regions for information exchange via INTERPOL, senior law enforcement officials are meeting to identify ways for […]