First Independent Mena Newspaper
The King of Morocco has urged the members of Parliament and political parties to shoulder their responsibility and to honor the commitments they made to their voters, to heed their claims and respond to their pressing concerns and to avoid trivial disputes. “Representing the citizens is a great responsibility. It must be shouldered by elected […]
Moroccan and American government representatives and leading businessmen are expected in Atlanta, Georgia, on October 13 to take part in the second edition of the Morocco-US Trade and Investment forum. The gathering aims at promoting investment, trade and partnership opportunities between Moroccan and U.S. companies in the areas of renewable and hydrocarbon energies, aeronautics & […]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel openly announced Wednesday that she is still opposed to Turkey’s EU membership despite the EU calling on Ankara for help to ease the refugee crisis putting the European bloc into difficult situation. Merkel has so far been cautious about opposing overtly Ankara but she spat her disdain about the Turkish regime […]
North Africa and Middle East countries will spend $11.4 billion on information technology products and services in 2015, says US firm Gartner Inc. in its forecast. The MENA countries IT spending includes purchase of internal services, software, information technologies services, data centers, devices and telecom services. According to the Gartner forecast, telecom services, which include […]
The Palestinian President’s Wednesday speech at the UN revived thousands of Palestinians’ hope to establish a Palestinian state especially that the day marked the hoisting of their flag for the first time at the UN. “Palestine, which is an observer state in the United Nations, deserves full recognition and full membership,” Abbas said. “In this […]
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has granted Morocco this week a 75 million loan destined to help the North African country carry out projects aimed at increasing the capacity of the water production & distribution and improving sanitation networks. This financing operation backs Morocco’s 2012-2016 national strategy to provide the population with fair access to […]
Israel’s calls for the resumption of talks with Palestinians is becoming increasingly serious as Netanyahu Sunday welcomed the Egyptian president’s appeal for talks between Palestine and Israel to end an open-ended conflict which has affected both parties. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who praised the Egyptian call for peace between Arabs and Israelis urged President […]
France and Morocco, two old friends, are determined to strengthen further their strategic partnership built on sound and longstanding relationship, based on common interests and values, and founded on shared commitment to promoting peace, stability and economic development. The friendship binding the two countries has been tested many times and has weathered all political and […]
Morocco became Thursday the second North African country, after Tunisia, to introduce innovation into its development in 2015, ranking 78th out of 141 countries around the world. A report by World Intellectual Property Organisation, Cornell University and the European Institute Business Administration announced on Thursday that based on 2015 innovation index, Morocco has made tremendous […]
The parliament of the Libyan Islamist government in Tripoli has reportedly been attacked while in a session to discuss the draft UN-brokered text that is meant to end the war in the country with the formation of a Unity government. The General National Congress (GNC) was attacked when its members were in session in the […]