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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 […]
Morocco’s leadership in the fight against climate change and the promotion of renewable energies was hailed on Wednesday by the Secretary General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Peter Taalas. the Secretary General of the WMO notably highlighted, during a meeting with the Arab Group in Geneva, the launch by the Kingdom of the largest […]
The Moroccan mining group, Managem, and the Anglo-Swiss global commodity trading giant, Glencore, have signed a strategic partnership to produce cobalt from recycled battery materials, in Morocco, the two groups announced this Wednesday January 26 in a press release. The partnership provides for the production of recycled cobalt, nickel and lithium at Managem’s CTT Hydrometallurgical […]
Morocco on Wednesday took over the chairmanship of the Vienna chapter of the G77 for the first time, which reflects the confidence and credibility enjoyed by the Kingdom within international organizations. The handover ceremony of chairmanship of the G-77 took place between Costa Rica’s ambassador in Vienna, Alejandro Solano Ortiz, and Morocco’s Permanent Representative Azzeddine […]
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) announced on Tuesday an additional €3.5 million loan to Land’Or Maroc Industries (LMI), a Moroccan subsidiary of Land’Or, a leading Tunisian producer of processed cheese. The new financing will enable LMI to purchase and install additional equipment and build a storage extension at its new cheese manufacturing […]
Morocco’s ambassador to Germany Zohour Alaoui is expected to return to Berlin after German authorities have voiced a clear support to Morocco’s autonomy plan offered for the Sahara under its sovereignty. Rabat recalled its ambassador to Berlin last May and suspended all cooperation ties and contacts with the German embassy in Rabat and German political […]
Ryanair has scheduled Morocco on its 2022 summer schedule with tourist hubs Marrakech and Agadir on top of the list. The news came as a denial of a report by Maghreb Intelligence news outlet saying the company plans a withdrawal from Morocco which has shut its borders to passenger traffic due to the surge in […]
The International Alliance for the Defense of Human Rights and Freedoms (AIDL) has renewed its total condemnation of the recruitment and exploitation of children for military purposes in the Tindouf camps in Algeria. According to this French NGO in charge of defending human rights and public freedoms, “this is an international crime that requires international […]
France-based international media protection organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF) issued Wednesday a stark report about the state of media in Tunisia as it warns against “risk of diluting the achievements of the revolution”. In the report titled “Journalism in Tunisia: the hour of truth”, the NGO, stressed that “journalism in Tunisia is at a turning […]
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has described Morocco as a “strategic partner with which we must walk together”, without announcing tangible actions to help repair the trust his socialist government broke with Rabat. The Moroccan-Spanish relations are still reeling from the fallout of the diplomatic spat sparked last May by Madrid’s decision to host secretly, […]