First Independent Mena Newspaper
Mrs. Latifa Ibn Ziaten, a French national of Moroccan origin, has been among a group of women from around the world honored this year by the US Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage Award. This Award is given to extraordinary women for their exceptional courage and leadership in advocating for peace, justice, human rights, […]
The Moroccan Royal Soccer Federation is in earnest talks with the Libyan counterpart to have the second leg of their encounter for the 2017 AFCON qualifiers played in Morocco due to lack of security in Libya. Both countries are in group F along with Sao Tome and Cape Verde. According to local online media “sport.le360” […]
Tensions raised high in Mauritania Wednesday as the Government went public calling for constitutional change to allow the current President to stand for elections in 2019, in contrast to current constitution which limits power to two terms in a row. On Tuesday, the Government’s spokesman Mohamed Lemine Ould Cheikh said at a press conference that […]
Libya’s UN-backed Prime Minister-designate Faiez Serraj received warnings from the Libyan capital’s lords to leave or face arrest upon arrival in Tripoli Wednesday Tripoli-based administration’s Prime Minister Khalifa Ghweil issued, in an address few hours after Serraj’s bold arrival in the capital, warnings against the UN-backed Libyan Presidency Council that he called “illegal” while asking […]
King Mohamed VI has donated €30,000 to an association in Amsterdam to build a mosque. The association based in the Dutch capital Amsterdam posted on its website a statement in Arabic and Dutch expressing thanks to the King for his generosity and for all his humanitarian actions. According to press reports, the association has been […]
France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault on Tuesday hammered home his country’s support for the Morocco-proposed autonomy plan for the disputed Sahara territory as tension between Rabat and the UN Head Ban Ki-Moon, heats up. Speaking at a joint press conference in Algiers with his Algerian counterpart Ramtane Lamamra, Ayrault maintained that France’s position on the […]
Moroccan Interior Minister Mohamed Hassad and Head of Morocco’s internal intelligence service Abdellatif Hammouchi, who is also Chief of General Directorate of National Security (DGSN), paid Wednesday a work visit to neighboring Spain. During this trip, the two top security Moroccan officials met with Spanish Interior minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz and Security Secretary of State […]
French intelligence agencies are recruiting informants in Morocco and other Maghreb countries part of efforts to beef-up their anti-terrorism squads as terrorist threats continue to loom on the country in the aftermath of the Paris attacks of last November 13. After the Paris attacks, the French Ministry of Defense decided to be more vigilant and […]
Moroccan authorities are eager to scale up economic exchanges to their full potential with Côte d’Ivoire even though trade between the two partners has more than doubled over a short period of time. For Mohammed Abbou, Morocco’s Minister of Foreign Trade, Cote d’Ivoire and Morocco can do much better even though trade between the two […]
In an attempt to defuse the tension that recently flared up between the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and Morocco, the UN Chief on Monday expressed explicit regrets for the misunderstanding about the word “occupation” he had used when referring to Morocco’s presence in the Sahara. Stephane Dujarric, Ban Ki-Moon’s spokesman, Monday said during […]