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The 2025 Crans Montana Forum (CMF) opened on Friday in Casablanca under the theme: “Africa’s International Trade: Maritime Safety and the Security of Ports and Navigable Routes.” This two-day event marks the first in a series of high-level forums scheduled in Morocco and forms part of the Royal Initiative aimed at enhancing access of Sahel […]
Trade between Morocco and the EU grew by 7% in 2024 to 60 billion euros, the highest level since the two parties signed an association agreement 25 years ago. According to data released by the EU commission on the occasion of its participation in the agricultural fair SIAM, the EU remains Morocco’s main supplier, covering […]
Morocco is a country of great strategic importance to the UK whose energy future depends on stronger ties with Morocco, said Labor MP Joe Powell in an Op-Ed published Thursday in the UK HuffPost. The Morocco-UK Power Project, recently recognized in TIME Magazine’s World’s Top GreenTech rankings, promises to supply enough clean electricity to power […]
Moroccan-Spanish joint efforts to counter regional terrorist threats in the Sahel and Sahara region were at the center of talks held Wednesday in Rabat between Abdellatif Hammouchi, Director-General of national police & homeland intelligence agency, and Maj. General Luis Peláez Piñeiro, Intelligence Chief of Guardia Civil, one of Spain’s law enforcement agencies. General Luis Peláez […]
A total of 191 Nigerian migrants have been voluntarily repatriated from Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) confirmed on Wednesday, April 23. The return operation, carried out from the southern Libyan city of Sebha to Lagos, Nigeria, included 111 women among those brought home. According to a statement issued by the IOM, the operation […]
Concern has grown in both the United Kingdom and Egypt after it was disclosed that Alaa Abdel Fattah, a British-Egyptian activist, has suffered severe health complications while being held in an Egyptian prison. Having engaged in a hunger strike exceeding fifty days, Abdel Fattah is suffering repeated vomiting and signs of internal inflammation, his family […]
Police at Morocco’s Mohammed V international airport arrested on Monday evening a Tunisian national flagged by Interpol, following a Red notice issued by French judicial authorities, security sources said. The 47 year-old suspect was arrested shortly upon arrival on a flight from Tunisia. A check of Interpol’s database revealed that he was wanted by the […]
An increasingly broad international consensus is emerging across the globe for including the Algeria-backed polisario militias in the U.S. terror black list. Several influential politicians, Associate professors and analysts from Europe, Latin American, the United States…have backed the findings of the recent report published by U.S. Hudson Institute urging the Trump administration to designate the […]
Former UK defense and trade minister and once member of Parliament Liam Fox added his voice to US congressmen, pundits, regional experts and western think tanks who have recently made the case for designating the Polisario as a terrorist group in view of the militia’s involvement in targeting civilians, violating UN ceasefire and acting in […]
King Mohammed VI, Commander of the Faithful, has joined the world leaders in paying tribute to the life and legacy of Pope Francis who died at age 88 on the morning of Easter Monday. In a message sent to Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, the Dean of the College of Cardinals, the Monarch offered his sincere […]