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The Algeria-backed Polisario has suffered a new defeat in the European Union Court of Justice. A ruling of the court, rendered on July 19, has rejected an appeal lodged by the separatist front in 2014 against the Morocco-EU fisheries agreement and slammed it as ineligible to lodge such an appeal. After the Court’s rulings issued […]
Human Rights Watch denounced on Wednesday the European Union decision to entrust the Libyan coast guards with the task of managing the waves of illegal African migrants who risk their lives to reach European shores. The EU’s obstruction of nongovernmental rescues and handover of responsibility to Libyan coast guard forces is a recipe for even […]
Morocco enjoys political stability and has a forward-looking economic strategy that enabled it to emerge as a regional manufacturing and export base for international companies, said the US State Department in new report on the climate of investment across the globe. “Morocco enjoys political stability, robust infrastructure, and a strategic location, which are helping it […]
Morocco and the United States, two friends and allies for centuries, have reaffirmed their strong determination to enhance further their military cooperation to defend their common regional and global geostrategic interests. At a meeting held Tuesday in Rabat, Abdeltif Loudyi, Minister Delegate for National Defense and Robert S. Karem, US Assistant Secretary of Defense for […]
Morocco will organize the 12th edition of the all-Africa games, a multi-sports pan-African event hosted every four years. Morocco will host the event upon a request from the African Union (AU) and Equatorial Guinea’s National Olympic Committee (CNO) after the withdrawal of Equatorial Guinea, Morocco’s sports and youth ministry said in a statement. The AU […]
Morocco and the European Union (EU) initialed this Tuesday (July 24) in Rabat a new fisheries agreement marking the end of three months of negotiations. The four-year agreement will enter into force after ratification by the European and Moroccan parliaments. Through this new fisheries agreement, the European Union has just confirmed that partnership with Morocco […]
Moroccan companies have been thriving in West Africa where the country geared diplomatic and economic effort, wrote the Economist in an article examining Morocco’s charm offensive with its southern neighbors. The article considers that Morocco’s dynamic private sector and leadership are looking at Sub-Saharan Africa as a land of opportunity compared to the immobilism plaguing […]
After weeks of rumors, the thrilling game opposing Barcelona to Seville will be hosted in Morocco. The game, to be played outside Spain for the first time, will take place at Ibn Batouta stadium in Tangier on Sunday, August 12. The choice for a single game at a neutral stadium in Morocco will spare the […]
Spain congratulated Morocco and the EU on agreeing on terms and provisions of a new fisheries deal as a milestone ushering deeper relations between the two parties. The agreement “underscores the stable and deep ties between the EU and Morocco,” said Spanish agriculture and fisheries minister Luis Planas in a statement. He highlighted the importance […]
The EU and Morocco have agreed on new terms of a fisheries agreement covering the Sahara. Morocco described the deal as a recognition of its sovereignty of its southern provinces and its quality as “the only interlocutor in negotiating international agreements covering the Sahara.” From the start of negotiations in Rabat, Moroccan officials made it […]