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South Korea has selected Morocco to provide training for African managers in the automotive industry as the North African Kingdom has become a major global player in the sector. A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed in this regard by Moroccan minister of National Education & Vocational Training, Saïd Amzazi and Korea’s ambassador to Rabat […]
Saudi Minister of the Interior Prince Abdulaziz bin Saud bin Nayif bin Abdulaziz, who was received Wednesday in Rabat by King Mohammed VI, met the following day his Moroccan peer Abdelouafi Laftit during his official visit to the North African Kingdom. Talks between the two ministers focused on security cooperation prospects between the two countries, […]
Morocco expressed its astonishment and its categorical denial of the claims spread by some French and US media saying that the North African Kingdom has arrested Saudi Prince Turki Ben Bandar ben Mohamed Al Souad, on its soil in 2015. The ministry of justice explained, in a statement relayed by Morocco’s news agency, that the […]
Morocco dispatched three airplanes loaded with 1.8 tons of aid to the besieged Palestinians in the Gaza strip, Morocco’s news agency MAP reported. The humanitarian aid, sent upon orders of King Mohammed VI, will be channeled to Gazans through Rafah crossing in Egypt. The shipment, which includes medical equipment and supplies, will help meet the […]
Russia is planning to make the war-torn Libya “his new Syria” and challenge the West in North Africa, warn UK intelligence chiefs. Moscow is sending troops and missiles into Libya in a bid to enforce a new stranglehold on European immigration routes, says the Sun daily, affirming that taking control of the biggest illegal immigration […]
Toyota Tsusho Corporation, supported by CFAO, its subsidiary, has won a $44 million contract to supply Morocco an oceanographic and fishery research vessel. The building of the research boat is expected to be completed in 2020 while delivery is scheduled for 2021. It will be built at the Mitsui E&S Shipbuilding Tamano Shipyard in Japan. […]
Japan has dealt a hard blow to the Polisario separatist group and their Algerian supporters who failed this weekend to impose the presence of the secessionists in the follow-up meeting of Africa-Japan summit held in Tokyo (Oct.5-7). “Even if a group which claims itself as a State which Japan does not recognize was sitting in […]
Morocco and Russia will sign shortly an agreement on civil nuclear energy. The deal would be the first of its kind to be sealed between the two countries. The content of this agreement, proposed by the Russian side, has not yet been specified. The announcement of this project was made Thursday in Rabat by a […]
Russia has once again distanced itself from the maneuvers of Algiers and its proxy, the Polisario, by stating that only a political solution would settle the regional dispute over Morocco’s southern provinces. President Putin’s Representative for the Middle East and Africa Mikhael Bogdanov has reiterated that Russia backs a political solution to the Sahara issue […]
A US Bipartisan House Resolution has condemned the recent provocative actions made by the Polisario Front and its foreign supporters, describing the separatist group as a terrorist organization funded by Iran. It is the first time that a bipartisan resolution has been introduced in the US congress condemning the connivance between Iran and the Algeria-backed […]