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Morocco aims at becoming the most competitive automobile industry by 2025, Moulay Hafid Elalamy minister of Industry, Commerce and the Green and Digital Economy has announced in the wake of a new strategic agreement with French automaker Renault. The kingdom of Morocco and the French giant in the African country adopted a new strategic roadmap […]
Morocco is an important ally of the European Union (EU) in the fight against cross-border crime, organized crime, drug trafficking and money laundering, EU Ambassador to Morocco, Claudia Wiedey, said. Wiedey, who was speaking online during the presentation and launch, in Marrakech, of the extradition procedure guide, expressed the EU’s wish to further strengthen cooperation […]
Following accurate intelligence provided by Moroccan security services represented by the General Directorate of Studies and Documents (DGED) and the General Directorate for Territorial Surveillance (DGST), Greek security services (EYP) on Tuesday arrested a 28-year-old Moroccan national, who had held senior positions in the operational squads of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist organization in Syria. […]
The inroads made by Morocco at the economic and diplomatic levels in Africa bother Berlin, as a leading German international relations think tank has called on the EU to help a weakening Algeria counterbalance Rabat’s increasing influence in the continent. Morocco recalled its ambassador to Berlin in May in protest over Germany’s hostile positions towards […]
Morocco, accused of having used Pegasus spy software, is increasing the number of legal defamation proceedings in France against the media having published such accusations. On July 22, Morocco launched a first libel proceeding against Amnesty International and Forbidden Stories, which orchestrated the release of false press reports, accusing Rabat of conducting electronic snooping with […]
The investigating judge of the Audiencia Nacional in Madrid, Santiago Pedraz, heard on Tuesday, the first of the three witnesses, in the Brahim Ghali case, lodged at the end of last June by the defense of the Sahrawi Association of human rights (ASADEH). The witness, Sahrawi activist Ahmed Tarouzi who resides in Laayoune, told […]
Morocco’s ambassador to Serbia Mohammed Amine Belhaj conferred on Monday in Belgrade with Serbian Defense minister Nebojša Stefanović on ways of boosting military cooperation between the two countries. According to FAR-Maroc, an online defense news website, the Serbian minister expressed on this occasion the wish to see Morocco participate in the International Defense Exhibition due […]
As the diplomatic row continues between Rabat, Madrid and Berlin over the Sahara, and as the Kingdom’s relations with France are facing destabilisation attempts over espionage allegations, German Institute for International & Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik/SWP) step in to add fuel to the fire. In an analysis published by SWP, which advises Bundestag […]
Moroccan ambassador to Paris Chakib Benmoussa has denounced the attempts orchestrated by networks hostile to Morocco in France and elsewhere seeking to destabilize the Kingdom and denied any spying on President Emmanuel Macron or any members of the French Government. “Morocco did not spy on President Emmanuel Macron. It did not spy on the former […]
Any person or organization accusing Morocco must provide evidence, or assume their slanderous denunciation in court, said on Thursday Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita in connection with the persistent media campaign on an alleged infiltration of the phones of several national and foreign public figures through a spyware. “Justice is there precisely to verify the […]