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Preparations for NATO Regional Exercise (REGEX 20), to be hosted by Morocco in November 2020, were reviewed Monday in Rabat by Lt. General, Inspector General of Royal Armed Forces (FAR) and Lt.General Hans-Werner Wiermann, chief of NATO International Military Staff. Talks between the two Generals also covered military cooperation between FAR and NATO, said a […]
Head of Moroccan Government Saad Eddine El Othmani said Monday in London that “Morocco will work to strengthen ties between Africa and the United Kingdom after Brexit.” El Otmani made the remarks after a meeting with UK peer Boris Johnson on the sidelines of “UK-Africa Investment Summit 2020” organized by the British government to foster […]
Thousands of Moroccan female seasonal workers working in Spanish strawberry farms continue to live in dire conditions in Spain despite multiple promises to improve their working environments, wrote Nuevatribuna. This year 16,500 Moroccan woman prepare to work in the fields of the Huelva region where slavery-like practices persist with workers having to walk several kilometers […]
Attendees in the Sunday Berlin Conference vowed to end support to conflicting sides in the Libyan crisis and stick to the UN arms embargo imposed on the North African country, host Angela Merkel said. “We agreed that we want to respect that embargo on weapon and that it will be strictly respected, more than before,” […]
King Mohammed VI received Saturday a phone call from French President Emmannuel Macron during which Morocco’s key role in brokering the Skhirate agreement between the Libyan warring factions was underlined. During the phone talk, which took place on the eve of Berlin talks on Libya, Morocco’s steady efforts to reach a settlement of the […]
Greece has said it will block any peace deal on Libya proposed by the European Union (UE) as it complained about her exclusion from Berlin conference planned for coming Sunday. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said that his government will stand in the way of the deal unless it scraps a maritime deal between Turkey and […]
The Atlantic city of Essaouira is a standing symbol of Morocco’s diversity and of the plurality of its cultures that make up its richness, said Director General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, who was present during the visit King Mohammed VI, Commander of the Faithful, paid Wednesday to “Bayt Dakira”, in the city’s medina. The Sovereign’s […]
France’s Armed Forces Minister is traveling to Washington in the coming days to discuss US military support to French forces in the Sahel region, the ministry said in a statement. The announcement comes a month after a report in the New York Times claimed the Pentagon was planning to reduce its military activities in West […]
The consortium led by Moroccan energy company NAREVA and French ENGIE group won an international bid for the construction of 120 MWp solar power plant in Gafsa, Tunisia. The consortium will be responsible for developing, designing, financing, building, operating and maintaining the photovoltaic power plant over a period of 20 years from commissioning. The Gafsa […]
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias labeled on Wednesday Morocco’s autonomy plan as a “serious and credible approach” for the resolution of the Sahara issue. Athens “deems the Moroccan autonomy plan for the Sahara, submitted to the United Nations, as a serious and credible approach to reach a solution” to this regional conflict, said Mr. Dendias […]