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The American first lady will visit Marrakech later his month accompanied by her two daughters, reports say. It will be the first visit by Michel Obama to the Kingdom of Morocco. She will be accompanied by their daughters; Malia and Sasha. During their one week stay, the Obama family will tour the city as well […]
The Moroccan government has denounced the car bomb attack that targeted lately a police bus, killing seven officers and four civilians in central Istanbul. In a statement released Wednesday by the Foreign Affairs Ministry, the North African Kingdom expressed its full solidarity with Turkey over this despicable criminal act contrary to the universal human values. […]
After Morocco expressed concerns last month that the US State Department’s 2016 human rights report contained factual errors and misrepresented the Kingdom’s efforts in that area, a bipartisan group of Members of Congress have voiced support to this response as being legitimate. In a letter sent to President Obama last Thursday, the 16-member group hails […]
More than 25 foreign ministers mostly from Western and Arab countries are meeting in Paris to revive talks to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the absence of the two conflicting parties. Netanyahu has been against the French approach and he stated ahead of the Paris conference that “the path to peace does not pass though […]
The German Bundestag on Thursday approved a non-binding resolution recognizing the 1915 massacre of the Armenians by the Ottoman Turkish forces as genocide with only one member of the parliament voting against it and another abstaining. Turkey reacted by recalling its ambassador in Berlin for consultations and also summoned Germany’s Chargé d’affaires in Ankara. Turkey’s […]
Morocco’s Addoha group has launched, through its subsidiary CIMAF, the construction of a new cement plant with an output capacity of 700,000 tons per year. The plant, located in Bobo-Dioulasso, the second the city of the West African country, will cost about €25 million and will be completed in 18 months. The new plant will […]
A Palestinian young refugee pupil has been denied stage performance at a public speaking competition after organizers had been bullied to bar her. 15 years old Leanne Mohamed who is attending Wanstead High School could not compete for Jack Petchey Speak Out Challenge Grand Final after her speech “Birds not Bombs” was judged inflammatory and […]
US senators called on President Barack Obama on Friday to impose sanctions on officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo responsible for violence and rights violations amid rising political tensions. A simmering political crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo that the US and its allies have been unable to defuse, is stoking fears in […]
The American power and energy giant, General Electric, has decided to club together with Pan-African multi-sector business services company Mara Group to make more inroads in Africa through investment in infrastructure, a domain still infant on the black continent. General Electric plans to invest billions of dollars in Africa’s infrastructure business industry, which according to […]
South Korea’s Ban Ki-moon, the outgoing Secretary General of the United Nations, has been described by the Economist as “the dullest—and among the worst” UN chiefs that preceded him. In a recent story on the job of UN Secretary General, described as “something of a poisoned chalice” and on the candidates to the UN helm, […]