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Moroccan energy minister Leila Benali has confirmed news reported last year that the country will reverse the flow of a pipeline that used to channel Algerian gas to Spain via Morocco. Benali told Bloomberg that Morocco has invited LNG operators in Spain to bid for contracts that could last five years with the aim of […]
Following the decision of the Malian authorities to expel the French ambassador in Bamako, the French government spokesman, Gabriel Attal, said on Tuesday that the “situation cannot remain as it is”. According to him, Paris and its European allies are giving themselves until mid-February to rethink their military device in Mali. Gabriel Attal said that […]
Morocco’s autonomy plan for the Sahara offers a lasting and realistic political solution which guarantees to the local Saharan inhabitants the collective and individual rights, said the Italian Centre for International Studies (Ce.S.I) In an analysis on the Sahara regional conflict, the Centro Studi Internazionali said the autonomy initiative is propped up by ambitious socioeconomic […]
The French ambassador, Joël Meyer, has 72 hours to leave Mali. The government’s statement was just read on ORTM, the national television station: “This decision follows the hostile and outrageous remarks” made “recently” by Jean-Yves Le Drian and the “recurrence of such remarks by the French authorities with regard to the Malian authorities, despite the […]
The French Development Agency (AFD) celebrated on Monday, January 31, 2022, in Rabat, 30 years of cooperation with Morocco, a period during which it mobilized €7.6 billion for development projects. During a ceremony, co-chaired by the French ambassador to Morocco, Hélène le Gal, and the director of AFD in the Kingdom, Mihoub Mezouaghi, the French […]
British energy start-up Xlinks has tendered for a geophysical and geotechnical study on the route to be taken by a 3,800 Km-long undersea electricity cable connecting Morocco to the UK. The undersea cable will be the longest of its kind and is intended to cross offshore Morocco, Portugal, Spain and France before reaching the UK. […]
Morocco has underlined the need to clear up misunderstandings on the migration phenomenon to strengthen the Africa-Europe partnership. This came in an address delivered by Moroccan Foreign Minister at an online discussion panel on “Migration and Mobility in the Africa-Europe partnership”, organized by the Africa-Europe Foundation ahead of the 6th EU-Africa Summit in Brussels (Feb. […]
Denouncing “a dirty political game” by Bamako, Denmark announced on Thursday the repatriation of its hundred or so soldiers deployed in Mali as the Malian junta had insisted, a new blow to the French-led European anti-jihadist force. “The generals in power have sent a clear message that Denmark is not welcome in Mali. We do […]
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s (EBRD) injected €211 million in 10 projects carried out in Morocco in 2021. More than half of the total investment funded green projects. Through its Green Economy Financing Facility (GEFF) and the Green Value Chain Program, the EBRD provided a total of €88 million to partnering banks to […]
A major hostile media campaign is targeting Morocco in a bid to destabilize it through the Pegasus spyware case spearheaded by Forbidden Stories consortium and some NGOs in total violation of deontological ethics of journalism. Morocco has made some European countries feel uncomfortable as they remained entrenched in their colonial shell. The North African Kingdom […]