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A UN-backed experts’ report, published on Monday (18 September), has revealed that war crimes continue in Ethiopia despite a peace deal signed nearly a year ago, ending the violence that has left over 10,000 survivors of sexual violence The human rights experts say that despite the peace deal signed in late 2022, which ended a […]
Gabon’s transition leader Gen. Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema is expected this Tuesday September 19 in neighboring Equatorial Guinea in a bid to ease tensions after Malabo was finger-pointed for supporting an alleged countercoup against Nguema who seized power on August 30. Nguema’s trip, his first since assuming officially power on September 04, aims at thawing […]
King Mohammed VI received a phone call from the President of the United States of America, Joseph R. Biden, on Monday. During the call, the US president expressed his personal condolences, as well as those of the American people and government, to the Sovereign and to the Moroccan people, following the painful earthquake that struck […]
Morocco, whose King Mohammed VI chairs the Al-Quds Committee, condemns the storming of the Al Aqsa Mosque by a group of extremists, a source at the ministry of Foreign Affairs said. These acts of escalation are likely to stir up feelings and undermine appeasement efforts in the occupied Palestinian territories, the same source pointed out. […]
Conservative MP James Duddridge said he has been struck by Morocco’s remarkable ability to respond swiftly and effectively to the devastating earthquake that shook the North African Kingdom. In an Op-Ed published in the Telegraph daily, the former UK minister for Africa said that Morocco has once more shown its resilience in difficult times, and […]
The 7-magnitude earthquake that struck Morocco on September 8 lifted land around the epicenter up 20 centimetres, according to Japanese scientists. Deformation of land was confirmed in an area about 50 kilometres east and west and 100 kilometres north and south of the epicentre, the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan said. Its analysis of the […]
Maintaining the IMF-World Bank annual meetings in Marrakech would give a much-needed push of support to Morocco’s earthquake-affected tourism sector, tourist operators say. Morocco’s central bank governor Abdellatif Jouahri said at a preparatory conference in Rabat that the annual meetings are still planned for October 9-15. But the two financial institutions are yet to confirm, […]
King Mohammed VI has sent messages of thanks and gratitude to the leaders of the British, Qatari, Emirati, and Spanish rescue teams who have assisted with search and rescue efforts in the regions affected by the September 8 earthquake that struck Morocco. In separate messages to National Coordinator of the British International Search and Rescue […]
King Mohammed VI has mediated conflicts across the Sahel, helped to negotiate over a hundred cooperation agreements and deployed more than 70,000 UN peacekeepers, said NATO’s former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe Richard Shirreff. In an Op-Ed published lately in the Financial Times, the British General said the Western security depends on Morocco’s resilience and […]
Spanish rescue workers and members of the international humanitarian organization “Doctors Without Borders” who took part in relief operations following the earthquake that shook several regions in central Morocco on September 8 have commended the professionalism, great logistical effort, and the swift and efficient response of Moroccan authorities on the ground to help the affected […]