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Real Madrid’s Italian coach Carlo Ancelotti said on Friday he was “impressed” by the Mohammed VI Football Academy, the Whites’ training camp during the Club World Cup, which is being held in the cities of Rabat and Tangier (February 1 to 11). “The training center of the Mohammed VI Football Academy is impressive”, said the […]
Morocco has been targeted with unfounded accusations of using Pegasus malware to spy on dissidents, said its French lawyer, adding that 18 months after these “imaginary” accusations were made, Amnesty or any of the accusers failed to show any hard evidence of wrongdoing. These claims “have not been backed by any technical evidence,” Olivier Baratelli […]
Sudanese capital of Khartoum has seen a flurry of high-level diplomatic activity, with visits of Russia’s top diplomat and envoys from the United States and Europe, in what has been dubbed as “a new scramble for Africa” by the Kremlin and its Western opponents Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s visit to Khartoum (8-9 February) — […]
Moroccans of all walks of life stand united against the orchestrated hostile campaigns spearheaded by some French members of European Parliament against the North African Kingdom in a bid to undermine its progress and rising regional economic power. On Wednesday, Moroccan lawmakers, attorneys, university professors, geo-political analysts and civil society militants denounced the tactics used […]
The United States Thursday warned its citizens in Kenya of possible terror attack in Nairobi County. The US embassy in capital Nairobi said that terrorist groups could stage an attack with little or no warning, targeting areas with many people. The alert indicates that high traffic areas frequented by foreigners and tourists in Nairobi and […]
The settlement of the Moroccan Sahara issue was at the focus of a meeting held on Wednesday in Moscow between Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin and Moroccan Ambassador to Russia Lotfi Bouchaara. The two sides also discussed other issues of mutual interest on the agenda of the United Nations, the Russian Foreign Ministry said […]
Two staff members of Doctors Without Borders (MSF) have been killed in the Boucle du Mouhoun region, in northwestern Burkina Faso – forcing the charity organization to suspend its medical activities in the region. The organization said in a statement that unidentified armed men attacked Wednesday one of its vehicles carrying a team of four […]
Africa holds the key to global food security because it has 60% of the world’s unused arable land, chairman and CEO of Morocco’s OCP Group, Mostafa Terrab, told the Financial Times. The Financial Times pointed out in its Wednesday issue that in the wake of the war in Ukraine and amid fears about the continent’s […]
Moroccan MPs, representatives of civil society, experts and lawyers have denounced the instrumentalization of the human rights issue, the attacks on Morocco’s territorial integrity and the exploitation of the Pegasus case by some members of the European Parliament, part of smear campaigns and repeated attacks against the Kingdom. These participants in a conference-debate, organized by […]
Burkina Faso’s media watchdog Conseil Supérieur de la Communication (CSC) has given a notice to French media France24 for unprofessionalism after the outlet allegedly reported that government source referred to terrorists who abducted last month dozens of women as “Islamist rebels”. The warning came Tuesday following a hearing which took place last January 24. The […]