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A Moroccan project was awarded the prestigious Dubai International Award for Best Practice in the category of national urban policies, UN Habitat and Dubai municipality announced. The initiative “We are Medina Learning from Jnane Aztout” implemented in the northern city of Larache won the “best practice for improving the environment” in the field of national […]
Morocco and Azerbaïdjan reiterated their firm stands against separatism as they both continue to struggle against separatist militias funded and armed by neighboring countries. The two countries have fought separatist militias operating outside international legality for decades. Morocco managed to neutralize the Algeria-based Polisario separatist front, after the UN brokered 1991 ceasefire agreement, while Azerbaïdjan […]
Turkish President Recep Tayip Erdogan urged Algerian authorities to lift the import restrictions and quotas it has imposed in a bid to curb the surging imports bill and consequently delay the depletion of its foreign reserves. Erdogan, who paid a three day visit to Algiers as part of an Africa tour, told the Turkish-Algerian business […]
Saudi Arabia has requested Tunisia to close the Tunis office of the Qatar-created Union of Muslim Scholars, which has been added to the anti-Doha quartet’s terror list. Riyadh instructed a visiting delegation of Tunisian officials, led by interior minister Lotfi Brahem, to close the office, Tunisia media Al Soutour reported. The Syndicate founded in […]
The Trump administration said it will move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem on May 14, a date that coincides with Israel’s 70th anniversary. Speeding up the embassy transfer has infuriated Palestinians and Muslims from across the globe as well as the international community who see in setting up the US embassy in Jerusalem […]
King Mohammed VI has called on the international community, and the influential powers in particular, to shoulder their historic responsibility towards children who are suffering from violence, exploitation and neglect. In a message addressed to participants in the 5th Islamic conference of ministers in charge of Childhood, convened Wednesday in Rabat, the Moroccan Sovereign said […]
President of the Palestinian authority Mahmoud Abbas called for convening an international peace conference by mid-2018 to find a solution to the stalemate, describing the situation of the Palestinian people as “no longer bearable”. In an address to the UN Security Council Tuesday, Abbas slammed the US unilateral decision to recognize Jerusalem as capital of […]
Morocco has recently added China’s guided MLRS (Multiple Launch Rocket System) to its arsenal in a bid to bolster its ground to air deterrence capabilities. Morocco has acquired four batteries of the long-range Chinese missile system, local media reported. Maximum range of fire is 200 km, however some sources claim that it might be up […]
Several political parties and groups from the civil society Sunday staged a protest march in capital Tunis, calling for the adoption of a bill criminalizing normalization of ties with Israel. The protest was organized by the National Coordination Committee for the Criminalization of Normalization with the Israeli Occupation. According to Middle East Monitor (MEMO), some […]
Russia, in the current state of affairs, will not resume flight connections with Egypt, Russian deputy Prime Minister has announced adding that immediate resumption of Russian flights to Egyptian resorts is “currently impossible”. Arkady Dvorkovitch reportedly made the remarks to Egyptian deputy foreign minister on the sidelines of the International Conference on the Reconstruction of […]