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Morocco has been elected to the presidency of the Center for Mediterranean Integration (CMI) for the period 2021-2024, the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Administration Reform and the World Bank Group announced. “As part of the governance reform of the Center for Mediterranean Integration (CMI) now providing for a rotating presidency among the member countries […]
Morocco has joined the Macolin Convention on the Manipulation of Sports Competitions, a multilateral treaty seeking to prevent, detect, and punish match-fixing in sports. Morocco’s ambassador to France Chakib Benmoussa signed on Monday this convention in Strasbourg, at the Headquarters of the Council of Europe, with Deputy Secretary General of the European Council Bjorn Berge. […]
A large delegation of Polish businessmen was on a visit to Morocco this week during which it made a trip to Laayoune to explore investment opportunities in the Moroccan southern provinces. At a meeting later in Rabat with the Foreign Minister, head of the Polish economic mission, Robert Jędrzejczyk, said the potential of the southern […]
Exports of Morocco’s watermelons to the EU exceeded that of Spain for the first time in the first half of 2021 as the Kingdom’s pursues an agricultural development strategy to bolster overseas sales. Morocco exported 203 million kilos of watermelons to different EU countries compared with 196 million kilos the same period last year, EU […]
One of the world’s leading liner shipping companies, Hapag-Lloyd, opened its own offices in Morocco on Thursday, September 16 as part of its development strategy in the refrigerated container transport sector. The international container transportation company announced the opening of more offices in Morocco to keep up with a growing demand as the North […]
The Polisario terrorist and leader of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS), Adnan Abou Walid al-Sahrawi, was killed by French forces, President Emmanuel Macron announced early on Thursday in a tweet. “This is another major success in the fight we are waging against terrorist groups in the Sahel,” added the French Head of […]
French authorities on Tuesday expressed concern about the contingency of deploying paramilitaries of the private Russian company Wagner in Mali, warning that such a deployment could prompt the withdrawal of French troops, who have been fighting jihadist groups there for eight years. News surfaced that Bamako had been in talks with the Wagner company for […]
The UK government has reaffirmed its strong support to the normalization of relations between Israel, Morocco, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and Sudan within the frame of the Abraham accords. “These are historic steps which see the normalization of relations between friends of the UK”, Britain’s state minister for the MENA region James Cleverly said […]
The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell has welcomed the swift appointment of Aziz Akhannouch as head of the Moroccan Government. “I welcome the swift appointment of Prime Minister-designate Mr. Akhannouch,” Josep Borrell tweeted on Saturday. The EU has already worked a lot with Mr. Akhannouch in […]
President of the Paris-based Arab World Institute (IMA), Jack Lang, paid tribute to King Mohammed VI for his “strong” and “continuous” commitment to the preservation of Jewish-Moroccan culture, history, and heritage. “Morocco is a unique case in the world,” said Lang in an interview with MAP, at a time when the IMA is preparing to […]