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French football club, Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), has set up an academy in Casablanca, Morocco, to foster further the club’s sporting ties with Moroccan youth. The academy’s inauguration is set for September 2024, said PSG in a press release. The bond between PSG and Morocco is built on a shared passion for football and Moroccan defender […]
Manuel Navarrete, the director of Spain’s Center for Intelligence against Terrorism and Organized Crime (CITCO), has praised the ongoing security collaboration between Spain and Morocco. Speaking on the 10th anniversary of CITCO, Navarrete emphasized the strength and consistency of this partnership. “The cooperation between the Police, the Guardia Civil [Civil Guard], and Spanish security forces, […]
The Nigerian government has raised concerns over Russia’s possible influence on the ongoing demonstrations against economic hardship in the West African country after about 40 protestors had been arrested for carrying Russian flags. Nigerian authorities have detained anti-government protestors in northern states for waving Russian flags and voicing support for Russian President Vladimir Putin, denouncing […]
Finland became the latest country and the first Nordic country to formally support the autonomy proposal under Moroccan sovereignty as a solution to the Sahara conflict. This came in a joint statement following talks in Helsinki between Finnish FM Elina Valtonen and her Moroccan counterpart Nasser Bourita. “Finland considers the autonomy plan presented in […]
Morocco is strengthening its military cooperation with the United States and western allies in electromagnetic warfare through “Arcane Thunder 24” exercise which is taking place in the North African Kingdom and Germany this August 5 through 16. A press release issued by U.S. Army Europe/Africa Command says this multi-domain exercise is designed to reinforce strong […]
Ukraine’s top diplomat has kicked off a three-country tour of Africa aiming to expand ties with the region that is increasingly looking toward Moscow, in a bid to drum up support for Ukraine’s military and diplomatic efforts in its ongoing conflict with Russia. The visit comes as Mali’s junta government announced on Sunday (4 August) […]
A French-Moroccan consortium comprising Aegis (main contractor), Systra, and Novick has secured a contract to provide project management assistance to Morocco’s National Railway Office (ONCF) for the high-speed rail infrastructure between Kenitra and Marrakech. The consortium will support ONCF in constructing 430 kilometers of new high-speed lines, quadruple 130 kilometers of conventional lines around Casablanca, […]
Morocco football team advanced on Friday to the semi-finals of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games after beating USA 4-0 at the Stade de France. Soufiane Rahimi opened the score for the Atlas Lions in the 29th-minute after a penalty kick. Ilias Akhomach added a second from close range at the 63 minutes before captain and […]
Morocco now has the full support for its sovereignty over the Sahara territory by two permanent security council members: The US and France. This support would set the direction for UN efforts to peacefully settle the long-frozen Sahara conflict on the basis of autonomy. The UN Security Council resolutions have been welcoming Morocco’s 2007 autonomy […]
Ukraine’s military intelligence agency (GUR) has claimed it had provided the Tuareg separatist rebels with information that facilitated the devastating attack on Malian government troops and their allied mercenaries from Russia’s Wagner Group, now called Africa Corps. Mali’s military has acknowledged, in a rare admission of a defeat, that it had suffered a “large number” […]