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The investments co-developed by Morocco and China as part of the One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative coupled with the North African Kingdom’s investments in logistics and infra-structure stand as a model to follow for the rest of Africa, stated Kenyan website, the Business Daily. In an article titled “Lessons from Morocco in China-backed mega […]
King Mohammed VI has addressed written messages to King Salman bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia and to Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah. The royal messages were handed over to the two Arab leaders in Riyadh on Sunday and in Kuwait city on Monday by Moroc-can Ministers of Foreign Affairs […]
Sudan has agreed to hand over the Red Sea Suakin island temporarily to Turkey for infrastructure development and rebuilding. The announcement was made during a visit by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Sudan, which included a visit to the Suakin island and its old port. During a speech at the University of Khartoum, where […]
Tunisian authorities banned Emirates Airlines from landing in Tunis in retaliation against a decision by UAE authorities denying all female Tunisian nationals entry into the country under a ‘temporary’ travel restriction on Friday, December 22. The Tunisian transport ministry said it has ordered the suspension of Emirates flights to Tunis “until the airline is able […]
A discriminatory decision took Tunisians by surprise, after UAE authorities have denied all female Tunisian nationals entry into the country under a ‘temporary’ travel restriction on Friday, December 22. Different media reports say that female Tunisians were also banned from boarding flights transiting through UAE airports. “Based on the higher travel advisory restriction issued by […]
A decisive vote in the UN General Assembly has further isolated the US in the international community. The vote of 128 against nine, with 35 abstentions and 21 countries not voting, has been received in Washington as a stinging rebuke for Trump and a rejection of his unilateral declaration of Jerusalem as a capital of […]
Arab countries are facing common development challenges relating notably to rapid demographic growth, increasing demand on housing and pressure on services that require developing integrated public policies conducive to social cohesion, said King Mohammed VI. In a message to the participants in the second Ministerial Forum on Housing and Urban Development, hosted in Rabat, the […]
The Arab world group at the United Nations praised, during the emergency special session of the UN general assembly on Jerusalem held Thursday, the role of the Al-Quds Committee, under the chairmanship of King Mohammed VI, in the preservation of the Arab identity, character and demographic composition of the holy city. The emergency special meeting […]
The Moroccan Phosphates company (OCP) and the Indian Krishak Bharati Limited (Kribhco) will jointly build a fertilizer production unit in Andhra Pradesh state, in southern India. The $230 million worth project, co-financed by the two part-ners, will have an annual production capacity of 1.2 million tons of NPK fertilizer (nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium). The fertilizer production […]
Algerian Prime Minister, Ahmed Ouyahya, presented the apologies of the Algerian government to Saudi Arabia after supporters of a football club waved a huge banner depicting a face, half of which belonged to King Salman bin Abdulaziz while the other half belonged to Donald Trump. The huge banner, brandished by the supporters of Algeria’s Ain […]