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The European Commission has approved the donation of €15 million to Niger’s Treasury. The funding granted under the European Development Fund is intended to finance the sectoral reform agreement, “Food and nutritional security and sustainable agricultural development (CRS-SANAD),” the Commission said in a statement. The program is part of the 2014-2020 National Indicative Program for […]
French oil giant Total Monday called on leaders of the world to introduce policies to address CO2 emission as major polluters are state-run oil and gas companies. The World Policy Conference (WPC) held Monday a plenary session under the theme “Climate and the environment” moderated by former French Prime Minister and foreign minister Laurent Fabius. […]
Turkish President Thursday threatened to let millions of Syrian refugees in his country to head to Europe after France, Germany and several other countries criticized the Turkish army offensive in Northeastern Syria and described it as an invasion. Ankara would allow millions of refugees to head to Europe if the bloc insists on its baseless […]
An umpteenth international prize is to be added to the list of awards grabbed by Moroccan Leïla Ghandi, a globe trotter, TV host reporter, photographer, documentary film director, published author and content producer. The young woman who has made of adventure her job won on Wednesday in Athens the ‘Who is Who’ International Women Leaders […]
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 […]