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The tripartite Spain-Morocco-Portugal bid commission for the organization of the 2030 World Cup held its first meeting in Las Rosas, Spain, the Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF) reported on Sunday. The meeting was chaired by Pedro Rosha, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Spanish Football Federation, Fouzi Lekjaa, the FRMF President, and Fernando […]
More than two dozen police officers were injured in a riot during a cultural festival in Germany on Saturday (16 September) that broke out between supporters and opponents of Eritrean government, with experts saying that protests by the Eritrean diaspora highlight the repression at home and dividing lines abroad. More than 200 Eritrean opposition supporters […]
The Moroccan Ministry of Digital Transition and the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) have signed two partnership agreements, aimed at promoting the digital transformation of the administration and the digital inclusion of very small, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Morocco. The two agreements, worth €8 million, were inked in Rabat by Minister of […]
Ndong Sima, the Transitional Prime Minister of Gabon made his first foreign visit last week to attend the G77+China Conference in Havana, in Cuba. Ndong Sima represented Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, the leader of the transition in Gabon who toppled former leader on August 30 in a military coup, Gabon Review reports. The two-day G77+China […]
France’s Foreign ministry has suspended all international adoption procedures concerning children habitually resident in Burkina Faso by any person residing in France, “Sputnik” reports. “This measure does not apply “to procedures that have given rise, on the date of publication of this order, to a relationship by the Burkinabe Central Authority for the implementation of […]
A letter of intent was signed in Rabat this week between the Archives of Morocco Institution and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), with a view to accompany implementation of a cooperation agreement, inked last November between the Moroccan institution and the National Archives of Korea, in the field of safeguarding and […]
Difficulties in securing foreign currencies and lack of affordable credit in the wake of rising interest rates are major challenges facing traders in the East African Community, according to a new report on the Ease of Doing Business in the EAC 2023, that also highlights traders still facing challenges at borders and markets despite harmonized […]
Russia is making “tremendous” gains in its disinformation propaganda in Africa, according to a new report by Dan Whitman, fellow at the Philadelphia-based Foreign Policy Research Institute, who, in a recent interview, described Moscow’s disinformation campaign as the “most rapid propaganda successes in the history of propaganda.” In his report recently published by the […]
Morocco denied that French President will pay a visit to the country after French foreign minister Carherine Colonna spread the fake news in an interview. President Macron’s visit “is neither on the agenda nor it is programmed,” an official source told Morocco’s news agency MAP. Colonna has told French media during her visit to Cairo […]
Earthquake-hit Morocco has been playing a central role in ensuring security and stability in Europe’s southern borders and its autonomy plan for the Sahara requires serious western attention, wrote the Financial Times. As Moroccan authorities and army maintain steady efforts to rescue and shelter population in earthquake-hit villages in the Atlas Mountains, Richard Shirreff of […]