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The fall of Thomas Cook will cause a drop of 100,000 tourists pushing Morocco’s tourism promotion office to seek alternatives in France through opening new air routes operated by low-cost airlines. Fourteen additional routes were opened linking Moroccan and French cities. British low-cost airline EasyJet will operate two flights a week from Nantes to Agadir […]
German Ambassador to Rabat Götz Schmidt-Bremme said the reunification of Germany after the fall of Berlin wall could offer insight to Morocco and Algeria to open new chapter in their bilateral relations. Borders between Morocco and Algeria have been closed since 1994 tearing apart families and blocking the Maghreb integration process. Morocco has showed good […]
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security & Cooperation in Europe will convene its 18th autumn meeting in the Moroccan city of Marrakech this Oct.4-6. It is the first time that Morocco is hosting such an event and the first time for the Parliamentary Assembly to hold its meeting in an OSCE Partner country. […]
France has voiced “unconditional support for the democratic transition” in Sudan and vowed a €60 million aid, including 15 million that will be made available very quickly. President Emmanuel Macron of France made the announcement Monday after a meeting in Paris with Sudanese Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok, whose government is tasked with leading the country’s […]
Three Moroccan brothers are to appear in court this Tuesday October 1st for having allegedly sent money to a fourth brother who has joined the ranks of the Islamic State group (ISIS) in Syria. El Jefaly siblings, according to the prosecution sent an unspecified amount of money to their brother in Syria via a […]
The European Union has denied it supports the revolution in Algeria after the army and several parties reined in the bloc and warned it against interference. Tension rose between the EU and the North African country end of last week after Marie Arena, President of the Human Right sub-commission of the EU Parliament, indicated that […]
Morocco’s Crown Prince Moulay El Hassan represented, on Monday in Paris, King Mohammed VI at the official funeral service of former President Jacques Chirac, who passed away last Thursday at the age of 86. The Crown Prince joined at the Saint-Sulpice Church more than 30 world leaders and hundreds of mourners who came to pay […]
King Mohammed VI is suffering from an acute double pneumonitis of viral origin, announced the Royal Office in a statement this Sunday, September 29. In view of the Monarch’s health condition, his physician prescribed him a medical rest of a few days, the statement added. The Royal Office added that the King had […]
Spain has made-a volte face giving up on a referendum for self-determination in the Sahara in favor of supporting UN efforts to reach a political and mutually acceptable solution to the dispute opposing Morocco to the Algerian-backed Polisario separatists. Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez stressed in his speech before the UN General Assembly the central […]
The collapse of British airline Thomas Cook will cost Moroccan hotels over $20 million (200 million dirhams) in due payments, said Morocco’s tourism operators. The local media is also speaking of a loss of 100,000 annually. Last year Thomas Cook carried 102,000 tourists mainly from Britain to the cities of Agadir and Marrakech. The tourism […]