First Independent Mena Newspaper
A museum dedicated to the fashion house celebrating the works of great French designer Yves Saint Laurent has been inaugurated in Marrakach, the Red City that had such a strong influence on him. The museum, inaugurated Saturday by Princess Lalla Salma, the spouse of King Mohammed VI, is located on Yves Saint Laurent Street near […]
King Mohammed VI announced that Morocco will create a new ministerial department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in charge of African affairs. The King who announced the decision at a speech marking the opening session of the new legislative year said that the new African affairs department will be tasked, […]
The 58 members of UNESCO’s Executive Board Friday (October 13) nominated France’s candidate Audrey Azoulay for the position of Director-General of the Organization, after five rounds of voting that began on 9 October. Azoulay, 45, a former French culture minister, and Qatari Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al-Kawari were the two frontrunners who made it to finals […]
Maroc Telecom, Morocco’s largest telecom operator, said that it invested €6 billion over the last decade in modernizing telecommunication infrastructure in the African continent. Speaking to the press following talks with Côte d’Ivoire’s president in Abidjan earlier this week, head of Maroc Telecom management board, Abdesslam Ahizoune, said that the company is planning to expand […]
Security and defense cooperation featured prominently in the 11 cooperation agreements that were signed on the occasion of the visit of Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev to Morocco. A well-informed source told Moroccan media that the country is interested in acquiring the mighty S-400 air defense systems from Russia. After months of media speculation about […]
Morocco and Russia signed 11 cooperation agreements in the fields of customs, agriculture, trade, energy efficiency, renewable energies, nuclear energy as well as military cooperation. The agreements were signed at a Moroccan-Russian working session chaired by Head of the Government Saad Eddine EL Othmani and Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev who paid an official working […]
The Moroccan government has described as “irresponsible” Catalonia’s unilateral secessionist move and renewed its strong backing to Spain’s sovereignty, national unity and territorial integrity. “Morocco rejects the unilateral process of the independence of Catalonia, and voices its attachment to the sovereignty, national unity and territorial integrity of Spain”, said a statement issued Wednesday by the […]
Since the first visit to Moscow by King Mohammed VI in 2002, Morocco and Russia have been working together to deepen their strategic partnership and expand their cooperation to new areas including energy and new industries. The visit by Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev to Morocco, which comes after the visit paid by King Mohammed VI […]
The fourth Moroccan-Russian Business Forum, held in Rabat on the eve of an official visit by Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev to Rabat, prospected opportunities to further boost trade between the two countries in the agricultural sector as well as new fields such as energy, the car industry, pharmaceutical industry, infrastructure, construction and new technologies. […]
Qatar’s candidate in the race for the post of UNESCO Director General, Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al Kawar, Monday won the first round of elections ahead of Friday final decision. Kawar won 19 out of 58 votes outdoing French candidate Audrey Azoulay and Cairo’s candidate Moushira Khattab who got respectively 13 and 11 votes. The four […]