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French TV channel M6 aired lately an investigation on ISIS Jihadists who have managed to settle without any problem in Europe, and particularly in Germany. The M6 flagship program “Enquête Exclusive” showed how ISIS Jihadists managed to slip through the cracks by posing as asylum seekers, and how they ended up being greeted with open […]
Several European media outlets have expressed admiration for Morocco’s vaccination campaign, which enabled so far to inoculate 4.17 million people with 1.22 million having received the second dose. Since its launch end of January in Morocco, the vaccination campaign is progressing at an “impressive pace”, with more than 4 million people vaccinated, French daily newspaper […]
The president of the Royal Moroccan Federation (FRMF), Fouzi Lekjaa, was elected this Friday March 12 to the Council of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA), an election that consecrates Moroccan sports diplomacy. Fouzi Lekjaa was appointed member of the FIFA Council during the 43rd Ordinary and Elective General Assembly of the African Football […]
Thousands of foreign residents have benefited from Morocco’s free coronavirus vaccination campaign which kicked off on January 28. King Mohammed VI had ordered that the campaign be open to Moroccans and foreign residents in the country in a bid to achieve collective immunity as soon as possible. President of the association of French nationals in […]
French President Emmanuel Macron decided, as recommended in the Stora Report on the Algerian War, to facilitate access to archives classified as defense secrets. After the recognition a few days ago by France of the fact that the nationalist leader Ali Boumendjel, had been tortured and murdered by the French Army, the Head of State […]
The European investment bank provided Morocco last year with €617 million to support the Kingdom’s response efforts to covid-19, the private sector, SMEs and agricultural sector companies. The European bank has doubled in 2020 its funding to Morocco compared to 2019, said the bank in a press release, noting that it took wide-ranging action under […]
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has officially called on the Algerian authorities to conduct “prompt and impartial investigations” into the allegations of torture and sexual abuse suffered by several inmates arrested during the Hirak who openly denounced the ill-treatment inflicted on them by the security services while in police custody. Rupert Colville, […]
Morocco’s Tanger Med port has outperformed all Mediterranean peers in terms of goods that have transited through it last year building on robust infrastructure, Spanish daily El Pais wrote. The Moroccan port handled 5.7 million containers in 2020 compared to 5.4 in Spain’s Valencia and 5.1 in the nearby Algeciras. The port benefits from its […]
While some countries are still behind on their COVID-19 vaccination campaign, Morocco has received recognition for its efforts and the speed at which it has managed to launch a successful vaccination drive. In this connection, Dutch public radio station “NPO Radio 1” has underscored the success of Morocco’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign, which has enabled the […]
Algeria has been slammed by the U.N. Human Rights Office for its crackdown on members of the pro-democracy Hirak movement which has picked up on its momentum. On Friday, thousands defied Covid-19 restrictions and took to the streets of Algiers and other cities across the country chanting slogans against the military junta and demanding a […]