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Japan’s Furukawa Electric opened in Tangier Automotive City a plant specializing in optical fiber, the first for the Japanese giant in North Africa and the Middle East. The plant was built for a cost of 200 million dirhams over a surface area of 31,000 square meters and is expected to create 200 direct jobs. “Furukawa’s […]
A five-member terrorist cell loyal to IS was dismantled Tuesday in a joint operation by Morocco’s FBI, the Central Bureau for Judicial Investigations (BCIJ) and Spanish security services. Following the successful joint counterterrorism operation, Spanish Interior Minister Juan Ignacio Zoido highlighted the efficiency of Moroccan-Spanish security cooperation. This operation shows the great efficiency of cooperation […]
The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in its quest to reach out to larger segments of internet users and populations has chosen youth as major mouth-pieces to spread the organization’s activities on the continent. Programs tailored for youth have been initiated where the next generation of leaders is groomed to play greater […]
Morocco’s BCP Bank and the African Development Bank teamed up in a $100 million agreement to boost trade between African countries. The deal (risk participation agreement) provides for cooperation to promote trade between African states by meeting the growing demand on financing transactions in the continent, the Moroccan bank said in a statement. The BCP […]
The US State Department has denounced the destabilizing activities led by Iran, including its support for the Lebanese Chiite Hezbollah movement and other terrorist groups. “The United States has consistently raised concerns about the destabilizing nature of Iran’s activities, including Iran’s support for Hezbollah and other terrorist groups,” the US State Department told MAP in […]
Cherry Blossom vessel, loaded with 55,000 tons of Moroccan phosphates, which has been illegally seized by South African authorities since May 1, last year, has just left the South African territorial waters and her cargo has been returned to its legitimate owner, Morocco’s phosphates company, OCP. It all started last May, when a South African […]
Libyan coastguard vessels intercepted Monday four inflatable smuggling boats carrying in total over 500 illegal migrants. The captured migrants, off coast of the North African country, were returned to their Libyan departure point. In 2017, about 119,000 migrants and refugees arrived in Italy from across the Mediterranean while more than 3,100 died making the crossing, […]
Bahraini’s Gulf Air will launch five weekly flights on the Casablanca air route on June 11, the airlines said. Gulf Air said it will operate its newly acquired Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners on the Casablanca-Manama air route. The new destination is part of an expansion plan of the Bahraini carrier, which aspires to emulate the success […]
Morocco’s membership in the Pan-African Parliament was formally enacted at the opening of the sixth ordinary session of the pan-African body in Midrand, near Johannesburg, on Monday. Five Moroccan MPs representing the Justice and Development Party (PJD), the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM), the Constitutional Union (UC), the Istiqlal Party (PI) and the Popular Movement […]
Shiite proselytism led by an Iranian diplomat positioned in Algiers has started annoying some conservative circles in Algeria, reported Arabic-language daily Echourouk, Saturday. Unlike the campaigns launched by opponent Anouar Malek, who is exiled in Belgium, in 2017 and early 2018, cautioning against the influence of the mullahs in his country, this time it is […]