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US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Monday called on Egypt to hold free and transparent presidential elections next month in a vote that is smeared by crackdown on President Sisi’s rivals and marked by wave of oppression. Tillerson, who began a five-nation visit to the Middle East with a stop in Egypt Monday, touched […]
Moroccan Interpol offered crucial information that helped Bulgaria’s security forces arrest an IS member returning from the battlefield in Syria through Turkey, international media said. The suspect, who is of Moroccan origin, was arrested in possession of belt explosives, hand grenades, firearms and ammunitions, the Haskovo court said in a statement adding that he “will […]
Morocco’s international cooperation agency (AMCI) and Spain’s International cooperation for development agency (AECID) vowed to coordinate efforts to set up joint projects in Africa. In this regard, AECID director general Luis Tejada Chacon held talks in Rabat with his Moroccan counterpart Mohamed Methqal during which it was agreed that the two agencies gear efforts in […]
Moroccan security services have seized 541 kilos of cocaine concealed in a container shipped from Latin America to Casablanca. Six people including a Brazilian national suspected of being the “mastermind of a criminal network” were arrested, said on Sunday Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation (BCIJ). Five vehicles and “large sums of money” in Moroccan dirhams […]
King Mohammed VI of Morocco congratulated in a message Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on the occasion of the National Day of his country. In the message, the King expressed heartfelt congratulations and best wishes of health and wellbeing to President Rouhani and “further progress and prosperity to the Iranian brotherly people.” On the same occasion, […]
French carmaker PSA Group will source 30% of parts for cars that will be assembled in the Algerian plant from Iran, said a senior official of Iranian Auto Parts Manufacturers Association. An agreement was signed in this respect between PSA Group and car part manufacturer Iran Khodro (IKCO), Mohammad Reza Najafi-Manesh, a member of the […]
European legal experts are increasingly warning of the dangers of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) meddling in EU international treaties. This came after the EU-Morocco fisheries deal was invalidated in a non-binding opinion by ECJ advisor Melchior Wathelet claiming that the deal “violates the rights of people from Western Sahara.” Should the ECJ follow […]
Israeli media is awash with reports and analyses on an upcoming war on Iran-backed Shiaa militia Hezbollah. Buoyed by inroads in the Syrian war, Hezbollah has bolstered its regional foothold, raising fears in Israel that it may have acquired and smuggled game changing weapons into its Lebanese strongholds, and prompting Israel to carry strikes inside […]
The Madrid-based company Gestamp, which specializes in the design, development and manufacture of highly engineered metal components for the automotive industry, has unveiled plans to build a plant in the Moroccan town of Kenitra, located around 40 km away from Rabat, next to the plant that PSA is building in the town. The facility is […]
French aircraft and service maker, Daher, has opened its new plant in Tangier, expanding its production operations in the North African nation. The new site strengthens the company’s position in Morocco as an aircraft manufacturer, equipment supplier and service provider. It follows a first site in Tangier in 2001 and a second in Casablanca in […]