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The Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean (AP-UfM) will convene its 17th plenary session, the 8th Summit of its presidents, as well as the meetings of its standing committees, bureau and extended bureau on Thursday and Friday (Feb.15-16) at the headquarters of the House of Representatives in Rabat. The meetings will examine the […]
French new foreign minister Stéphane Séjourné said he will invest in improving ties with Morocco and reaffirmed Paris support for the Sahara autonomy plan. “The Republic’s President has personally asked me to invest in French-Moroccan relations to open a new chapter in our toes. I will be committed to that,” Sejourne told Ouest-France daily paper. […]
With the support from the European Union and the United States, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Zambia hope soon to realize their ambitious plans to shore up their green energy resources — and face up China’s influence. In October 2023, the EU and the US passed a declaration to support efforts to revive […]
The worsening ties between Algiers and Bamako unveiled a silently brewing crisis between Algeria and its main arms supplier Russia, which seeks to undermine the west in Africa using a panoply of soft and hard power measures. Algeria has for long claimed to be Russia’s “best friend” in Africa with President Tebboune calling Putin a […]
The Secretary of State for the Holy See, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, commended King Mohammed VI, Commander of the Faithful, for his efforts to promote tolerance and inter-religious dialogue. Speaking at a function organized in his honor by the Moroccan Embassy in the Vatican, following his appointment as an honorary member of the Kingdom’s Academy, the […]
Spanish Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska this Friday commended cooperation between Morocco and Spain on migration, describing this cooperation as “exemplary”. “Cooperation between Morocco and Spain is exemplary. We have been close, reliable, and loyal partners for a long time,” the Spanish minister told the public television channel TVE. In January, the Spanish official made his […]
After a diplomatic spat between Algeria and Spain over the Sahara, which lasted nearly 15 months, the Algerian ruling junta realized that their blackmail strategy and gas weaponization have failed and changed course. After swallowing their bitter defeat, they sent back their ambassador to Madrid in a humiliating diplomatic and economic debacle without succeeding to […]
The European Investment Bank has provided €115 Mln loan to MEDZ, subsidiary of CDG Group, for the expansion and modernization of ten technopoles located in five regions of Morocco. The funding supports the country’s advanced regionalization policy and its New Development Model and is in line the EU’s Mediterranean Agenda on resilience and climate transition, […]
In a reference to Laayoune as a Moroccan city, the Spanish official gazette has reflected the official position of the country in support of Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara. The Spanish official gazette had in August cited Laayoune in a text, in a move that shows Spanish commitment to its 2022 declaration in which it […]
A delegation comprising 14 permanent representatives to the United Nations Office in Geneva undertook this week a tour of the Southern Provinces of Morocco. On this occasion, they bear witness to the distinctive development of this part of Moroccan territory. The visit of these ambassadors to the southern provinces highlights Morocco’s determination to showcase its […]