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French soft wheat exporters (intercereales) said Morocco could import up to 5 million tons this 2022-2023 season. France has already exported 1 million tons of soft wheat to Morocco during the summer, the French cereals lobby group said in a statement. With the crisis in Ukraine, Morocco has bought more wheat from France becoming its […]
Participants in the 38th Toulouse-Saint Louis (Senegal) Air Race, which started Saturday, will make stopovers in the Moroccan Saharan cities of Tarfaya, Dakhla and Laâyoune. Twenty-eight planes with pilots from France, the U.S., Germany, Norway, the United Kingdom, Belgium and Peru are taking part in this year’s rally to end Sept.30. The light airplanes took […]
France under President Emmanuel Macron seems to be more concerned about fixing its problematic past with its former Algerian colony at the expense of ties with forward-looking Morocco. Last month, President Macron visited Algeria and spoke to its aged military leadership about the need to turn the page on France’s bloody past, which ironically serves […]
Morocco spends 427 million euros annually in fighting illegal migration, an amount that dwarfs the 500 million euros that the EU plans to offer Morocco in migration aid over five years, head of migration and border control at the interior ministry Khaled Zerouali said. In an interview with Spanish agency EFE, Zerouali said EU aid […]
Prince Moulay Rachid arrived in London on Sunday to represent King Mohammed VI at the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. Later in the evening, Prince Moulay Rachid took part, at Buckingham Palace, in a reception hosted by King Charles III in honor of the Royals, Presidents, and dignitaries who flocked to London for the […]
Barceló Group, a Spanish company specializing in hospitality and travel, plans to invest 47 million in the tourism sector in Morocco through the acquisition and renovation of several hotels in the Kingdom, a move that will diversify the tourism offer and stimulate private investment in the tourism sector. A memorandum of understanding to this effect […]
The American delegation to the ongoing 51st session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva and several participating NGOs have pilloried Algeria for the extremely worrying situation of human rights in the country, the massive violations of the rights of the populations sequestered in the Tindouf camps and the refusal of the Algerian regime to […]
Ali Bongo, the leader of Gabon, will fly today Friday to London in view of attending the funerals of late United Kingdom (UK) monarch Queen Elizabeth II who died at the age of 96 after 70 years of rule. “Like several personalities from around the world, including Sovereigns, Monarchs, Heads of State and other eminent […]
Security cooperation between Morocco and Spain and ways to upgrade this cooperation up to the strategic partnership existing between the two countries were reviewed at a meeting held in Rabat this Thursday. The meeting gathered Director General of National Security and Territorial Surveillance, Abdellatif Hammouchi, and Secretary of State and Head of the National Intelligence […]
As Africa reflects on the legacy of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, from Kenya to Nigeria to South Africa, the monarch’s passing has reignited a sensitive debate about Britain’s colonial past in parts of the continent, particularly the queen’s role as head of state during British rule. The death of the British monarch has prompted an […]