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Newly elected French President Emmanuel Macron will pay an official visit to Morocco on June 14-15, the Elysée announced. The visit to Morocco will be the first for the French President to the Maghreb after his election last May. This first visit to Morocco and to the Maghreb by President Macron, who will be accompanied […]
Morocco’s flag carrier, Royal Air Maroc, said that it maintains its five weekly flights to Doha although it cancelled flights transiting through Doha Airport to Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt. The announcement was made on the backdrop of an unfolding crisis after several Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Egypt cut […]
France has asked the UN Security Council to authorize the deployment by five African countries- Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger – of a special counterterrorism force of 5,000 troops for the Sahel region. Presidents of the five countries — Niger, Mali, Chad, Burkina Faso and Mauritania — agreed in February to set up […]
Germany pledged Thursday to provide an additional $3.9 million to help Libya improve living conditions of refugees in the North African country. The pledge comes in response to a call from the UN refugee agency, UNHCR. The German assistance was announced during the visit Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel paid to Tripoli. He said Germany is […]
Another cargo of five US-made M1A1 Abrams main battle tanks arrived in the port of Casablanca on Wednesday (May 7), reported Far-Morocco, a website specialized in armaments and defense. This cargo and a similar delivery in July 2016 are part of an order of 250 of this type of third generation battle tanks, as the […]
The automotive industry in Morocco has become the leading export sector, thanks notably to the investments of French automaker Renault Group that celebrated the export of 1 million vehicle made in its Moroccan plants of Tangier and Casablanca. “Renault is a success story that we would like to duplicate in other sectors,” said Industry and […]
Mauritania has joined its voice to the Arab nations that cut off diplomatic ties with Qatar, which they accuse of supporting terrorism and sidelining with Iran. “The state of Qatar has linked its policies … in support of terrorist organizations and the propagation of extremist ideas,” the Mauritanian news agency said relaying a statement of […]
The European Union and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) signed on Wednesday a Joint Declaration on EU support to UNRWA for the period 2017-2020. They also announced the signature of the financial agreement for the EU contribution to the UNRWA Program Budget for 2017, which […]
The US President Tuesday shocked his own administration after he took the Saudi side in the crisis involving Qatar and several of its neighbors. Donald Trump boasted via several tweets that the speech he delivered two weeks ago in Riyadh “was already paying off” adding that Qatar has been singled out as terrorism supporter. “So […]
Morocco said that it is following the developments in the rift between Qatar and six Arab countries -Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Libya, and Yemen— which severed their relations with Qatar on Monday over its alleged support of terrorism. “Morocco is closely following the unfolding of events in the Gulf countries and […]