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Spain won the support of the European Court of Human Rights over its rapid deportation of two African migrants from the enclaves of Melilla and Ceuta it occupies in Northern Morocco. In a verdict that may anger rights groups, the court considered that there has been no violations of the European Convention on Human Rights. […]
Morocco’s national airline, Royal Air Maroc, and British Airways have sealed a code-share agreement on the Casablanca-Agadir-London routes operated by the two companies. The deal offers more choices to passengers travelling to London and Marrakesh, says the Moroccan flag-carrier in a press release. Codeshare flights take off on February 20, with RAM due to join […]
Eighteen Italian cities have voiced strong backing to the autonomy plan offered by Morocco for a lasting resolution of the Sahara conflict. In a joint statement released lately, the mayors of eighteen Italian communes of Canavese, in the Piedmont region, “welcomed the process of advanced regionalization which provides for a new, more dynamic policy in […]
Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia were in a long list of countries the CIA spied on using encryption company for 50 years, in a case that came to be known as the century’s intelligence coup, the Washington Post reported. Over half a century, from the 1970s on, governments and their intelligence security agencies across the globe […]
Chelsea football club has agreed to pay Dutch Ajax €45 million to sign Moroccan midfielder Hakim Ziyech. Under the transfer deal sealed by the two European clubs, the 26-year old player will join the English professional Premier League club on July 1st 2020 and will finish the season in Amsterdam. “We were expecting it,” said […]
The European Union, in a report released on Thursday, described as “astonishing” the extent of vote-rigging in last October’s elections in Mozambique. The EU observers gave a withering assessment of the polls, saying they found fraud at almost every stage of the process. The election – meant to help cement a peace deal in the […]
Moroccan and Spanish professional football leagues, LNFP and La Liga, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to share experience in several areas including management, marketing and trading. The agreement, signed in Madrid on Tuesday, will enable the Moroccan side led by Saïd Naciri to take a leaf out of La Liga’s book in various […]
Portugal has ordered a freeze on the bank accounts of the Angolan billionaire businesswoman Isabel dos Santos. Isabel, the daughter of the former Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos, is currently the subject of a criminal investigation in Angola. The public prosecutor’s office in Lisbon confirmed reports that dozens of personal and corporate […]
French independent group Utac Ceram, which carries out technical tests required for the approval of vehicles and their equipment, will open a test center in Morocco, according to French business daily leséchos.fr. An agreement will be signed shortly with Moroccan authorities on this center to be operational by mid-2021, added the French news outlet. The […]
The United Kingdom has named Simon Martin new ambassador to Morocco in replacement of Thomas Reilly. The new envoy is to take office in September 2020, says the Foreign Office. Prior to his new diplomatic assignment in Morocco, Simon Martin served as Ambassador to Manama from 2015 to 2019. He worked at Clarence House […]