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Morocco, co-host of the FIFA World Cup 2030 along with Spain & Portugal, has launched the construction works of the International Broadcasting Center (IBC) in Casablanca for the upcoming global football tournament. The International press center will be built over 66,000 m2 area at the site of the former International Fair of Casablanca (near the […]
Spain’s main opposition party, the Partido Popular (PP), is relentlessly stoking anti-Moroccan sentiment as it maneuvers toward government, with Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares openly branding the party “anti-Moroccan” amid an escalating row over its stance toward Rabat. The charge, unusually blunt for Spanish diplomacy, exposes a contradiction PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo would have […]
Morocco signed on Wednesday the participation agreement in the International Stabilization Force (ISF) in Gaza in a move enabling the Kingdom to deploy officers of the Royal Armed Forces & security staff and establish a military field hospital in support of the humanitarian and security efforts made for Gazans. The agreement was inked in Rabat […]
The future Peruvian government is committed to supporting Morocco’s territorial integrity and its sovereignty over its Southern provinces, the Office of Peru’s President-elect Keiko Fujimori announced on Tuesday. This stance was expressed during a meeting between the President-elect and the Kingdom’s Ambassador to Peru Amin Chaoudri, who conveyed her a message of congratulations from King […]
Reporters Without Borders moved fast after Ali Lmrabet’s arrest at Tangier airport, calling for his immediate release and framing the case as another example of Morocco using its courts to silence critics. The statement is short and hasty, and that is part of the problem. It tells readers almost nothing about why he was actually […]
Morocco is set to make cultural history in the United States, becoming the first Arab and African nation to be featured as a guest of honour at New York’s SummerStage Festival. The event, titled “Morocco: From Dakhla to Casablanca,” opens this Wednesday 15 July at Rumsey Playfield in Central Park. The event is organized by […]
Algeria has quietly climbed down in its standoff with Mali, reopening its airspace to Malian aircraft and returning its ambassador to Bamako, the latest in a string of diplomatic retreats that has come to define Algiers’ diplomacy with the countries it has picked fights with in recent years, from Spain to France and now the […]
The European Union (EU) has announced new sanctions targeting Sudan’s gold sector, banning the purchase, import and transfer of Sudanese gold, while also prohibiting the export of mercury and cyanide used in gold mining. The measures are intended to curb financial resources that sustain the conflict and increase pressure on those accused of fuelling the […]
Morocco’s role in Europe’s electricity security is gaining new dimensions, as both Spain and Portugal study expanded interconnections with the Kingdom while Morocco simultaneously builds out its own infrastructure toward sub-Saharan Africa. The developments unfold against the backdrop of the April 2025 Iberian blackout — the worst in Europe in two decades — in which […]
Morocco and France are poised to establish a new more innovative, strategic, and structural cooperation spread across multidimensional levels, said King Mohammed VI in a message of congratulations to President Emmanuel Macron his country’s National Day. “Under our mutual impetus, Morocco and France inaugurated a historic step in bolstering their privileged relations. It aims to […]