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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, […]
Moroccan authorities and army are racing the clock to offer decent temporary shelters to the earthquake-hit population in the Atlas mountains, defying the difficult terrain and vast affected area. The 7 magnitude tremor hit a week ago killing around 3000 people and destroying many traditionally-built villages in the provinces of Al Haouz, Taroudant, Chichaoua and […]
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 […]
King Mohammed VI, part of his strong, personal response to the earthquake that struck Morocco on September 08, has made a financial contribution of MAD 1 billion ($100 million) to the special relief fund for the tremor victims, through Al Mada holding, in which the Sovereign is the main shareholder. At the recommendation of its […]
Several Arab, African, and world leaders have sent to King Mohammed VI messages of condolences and solidarity following the deadly earthquake that hit the Kingdom on Friday, killing over 2,680 people and injuring over 2,500, according to latest updated death toll. In a message addressed to the Monarch, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of […]
Algeria’s foreign minister Ahmed Attaf is on a damage control mission after BRICS rejected his country’s bid, exposing the false promises of President Tebboune who arrogantly promised his people an imminent admission to the group of the world’s fastly growing economies. Tebboune made of joining BRICS a certainty for his people, repeating since 2022 that […]
The Attorney General of Switzerland has filed an indictment in the Federal Criminal Court against former Algerian defense minister Khaled Nezzar for crimes against humanity committed during the 1990s civil war. According to the indictment, Nezzar is accused of violating the laws of armed conflicts in accordance with the Geneva Conventions between 1992 and 1994 […]
French Republicans were the latest in a wave of voices that called on Emmanuel Macron to break away from his Algeria bias in favor of mending ties with Morocco. “What a suffering for all those who love France like us to see our country incapable of defending its interests…I blame the head of state. I […]
Tunisia is now the African country facing the highest default risk as the government remains reluctant to implement reforms to be eligible for an IMF package of $2 billion. With one of the world’s highest wage bills in terms of percentage to GDP, Tunisia under autocratic president Kais Saied, is unwilling to implement painful reforms […]
Speculations about an upcoming normalization of ties between war-torn and de facto divided Libya and Israel came to the fore following news of a meeting between the foreign ministers of the two countries, an incident that was described as historic in Israel but led to the sanctioning of Libya’s foreign minister by her government. The […]