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Morocco is one of France’s major allies in the fight against radical Islam, a fight where France must be pragmatic and surround itself with friendly countries, states General Dominique Trinquand. In a column published Thursday by Marianne.net, General Dominique Trinquand, former head of the military mission to the UN, believes that Morocco and the UAE, […]
The US recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara is “a very good initiative” and ‘a right move that needs to be pursued and accompanied” as it is “a very important step towards the resolution of the Sahara conflict,” said MP of the French majority MoDem party Bruno Fuchs. There is no doubt that “the […]
Spanish InCom company, a multinational group dedicated to the engineering, design and manufacture of composite kits for the wind blade industry, has taken a new step in its international expansion with the opening of its first factory on the African continent, more precisely in the Northern Moroccan city of Tangier. The plant, which started […]
Major Polish companies operating in various economic sectors have decided to invest in Morocco, particularly in the Southern Provinces. During a working session Wednesday in Warsaw with Morocco’s Ambassador to Poland, Abderrahim Atmoun, several Polish stakeholders expressed their wish to visit Morocco’s Southern Provinces and materialize their decision to invest in the region. In a […]
German Ambassador to Rabat has described the autonomy initiative put forth by Morocco to settle the Sahara issue as the most realistic solution and separatists claims of the Polisario are “unfeasible”. “It is difficult to find a more realistic solution” than the autonomy initiative to the Sahara conflict which has long lasted, the German Ambassador […]
Morocco’s carrier Royal Air Maroc (RAM) announced this Wednesday the launch, starting February 12, of a new direct air route between Paris and Dakhla. This new air route will connect, for the first time, the European continent to the city of Dakhla, in less than 04h30, RAM said in a press releasen adding this link […]
The decades-old project to connect Africa to Europe via the strait of Gibraltar has resurfaced lately as several media reported that London, or rather Boris Johnson, is determined to take advantage of the trade opportunities that may arise from its new status as a former partner of the European Union. And connecting Gibraltar to Morocco […]
US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, David Schenker, arrived this Saturday morning, January 9 in Laayoune, capital of the Moroccan Sahara, before flying Sunday to Dakhla for kickstarting the process of establishing a US consulate in the Saharan city. Shortly after arrival, the US official toured the city’s diplomatic district which […]
The latest positive developments in the Sahara issue and the MENA region open up a new era for regional cooperation and a promising prospect for peace, said Head of Finnish Christian Democrats Party Sari Essayeh. “Europe and Morocco are partners, bound by geography, culture, shared interests and history”, she added in a statement to Moroccan […]
The European Union has, in a confidential note, put the finger on the main problems of Algeria in particular the absence of economic strategy. EU economists refer to Algeria as “a ticking time bomb” when talking about the “most unstable country in North Africa after Libya,” says a French expert in an analysis he […]