First Independent Mena Newspaper
A new species of stegosaurian dinosaur, Adratiklit boulahfa, has been described by researchers. It is the oldest definite stegosaur ever found, announced a team at the Natural History Museum in London. Its remains were uncovered in the Middle Atlas mountains of Morocco, making Adratiklit the first stegosaur to be found in North Africa. […]
Cargotec subsidiary Kalmar has won a contract to upgrade four ZPMC ship-to-shore (STS) cranes at the Eurogate Tanger container terminal in Morocco. The modernization of cranes will enable Eurogate Tanger, located on the Strait of Gibraltar in Morocco, to manage large ships, Kalmar said in a press release. Due to its geostrategic location, […]
Hague-based Dutch first flight football club, ADO Den Haag, has named Moroccan national Mohammed Hamdi as new Director General with the challenge to revive the club. The club’s main shareholder, Beijing-based United Vansen, appointed the 35-year old man after former manager Mattijs Manders left the club June 1st to become the Director General of the […]
An agreement to convert some of Tunisia’s debt to Belgium into development projects was signed Wednesday in Tunis, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The agreement, signed by Director General for Europe, Nabil Ammar, and Belgium’s ambassador to Tunisia, Michel Tilemans, provides for converting more than €2.991 million ($3.33) of Tunisia’s debt to Belgium […]
Tunisia’s Prime Minister and Presidential Hopeful Tuesday announced he has renounced his French nationality, less than one month before September 15 presidential elections. “Like hundreds of thousands of Tunisians who lived and worked abroad, I had a second nationality that I have renounced before submitting my bid for the elections,” Youssef Chahed said in […]
Moroccans are celebrating this Tuesday Aug.20 the 66th anniversary of the Revolution of the King and the People, an epic in the history of Morocco and a decisive step towards the recovery of the Kingdom’s independence. On August 20, 1953, the French colonial authorities forced the legitimate Sultan Mohammed V, as well as the Royal […]
Morocco and Spain promised to protect the rights of Moroccan female seasonal workers who travel every year to the region of Huelva to work in strawberry fields. In 2018-2019 season they were 14,583 who worked in Huelva in an operation lauded in a joint Moroccan-Spanish statement as “successful.” This form of regular migration was “beneficial […]
The Moroccan football association, FRMF, has picked Serbian Vahid Halilhodžić as the new head manager of the national football team with the task to qualify the Atlas Lions for FIFA 2022 World Cup to be played in Qatar. The FRMF finally picked the former manager of Paris Saint Germain, PSG, and Algeria’s former coach […]
Hundreds of thousands of people starving in South Sudan will receive lifesaving food and water, courtesy of the UK aid. Minister for Africa, Andrew Stephenson, announced an extra £18 million of UK aid on his first visit, in his new role, to South Sudan. The visit started Monday. Andrew Stephenson who held talks Tuesday […]
Last April, just few months before he hands over power, the former Mauritanian president, Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz, whose country is involved in the UN talks to resolve the Sahara conflict, made a “confidence” to the Palestinian journalist, Abdel Bari Attwane. Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz had then revealed that Western countries simply do not want the establishment […]