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Algerian activist Oualid Kébir has stressed that Algeria’s support for a separatist movement against a neighboring country is a “great sin” and that such a support “serves colonial agendas”. In an open letter to the president of Algerian “El Bina” movement Abdelkader Bengrina, in reaction to a publication on the Treaty of friendship, neighborliness and […]
The United States has congratulated King Mohammed VI for launching the nationwide vaccination campaign against the Covid-19 pandemic, saying it is the first major operation rolled out in the African continent. In a letter sent Monday to the Monarch, the US Chargé d’Affaires in Rabat David Greene extended his “warm congratulations” on the launch of […]
Rival Libyan armed groups loyal to east-based war lord Khalifa Haftar have clashed in the coastal city of Sirte, Anadolu news agency reports citing military sources. The armed clash occurred Tuesday after forces from the Tariq bin Ziyad Brigade launched an attack on the main headquarters of Al-Kaniyat Brigade in Sirte, the military sources told […]
Tunisia will produce British Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine following an agreement with the United Kingdom, Health minister of the North African country confirmed on Monday. Faouzi Mehdi told local Express FM that both countries reached an agreement-in-principle for the production of the vaccine in Tunisia. The agreement came following a meeting with the British ambassador to […]
Despite challenges posed by the pandemic to international trade, Moroccan ports handled 92.5 million tons in 2020, that is a 5.1% rise compared to a year earlier, the national ports agency said. Imports rose 4.4% to 56.1 million tons due notably to a rise in cereal purchases by 33.4%, sugar (+8.9%), animal feed (+3.4%), coal […]
Morocco, the first African country to launch a national vaccine campaign, has so far given doses to 200,081 becoming so far the country with the most vaccinated people in the continent. Morocco rolled out the vaccine on Friday after receiving two million doses from AstraZeneca and 500,000 jabs from China’s Sinopharm. The vaccination campaign targeted […]
The terrorist threats and the security challenges facing the African continent were at the center of talks held Monday in Rabat between Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita and presidential advisor for security of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) François Beya. The two officials also discussed ways of enhancing further bilateral relations, latest regional […]
The Institute of the Arab World (IMA) will celebrate next fall the history of the Jews of the East and the Arab World, a world premiere wherein Morocco will take a prominent place, said chairman of the Paris-based Institute, Jack Lang. Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, IMA maintains its plans and continues preparing several landmark events, […]
Morocco has extended the anti-coronavirus restrictive measures for two more weeks as of Tuesday, February 02 at 9 p.m. The measures include a night curfew, closure of restaurants and shopping centers at 08 p.m. and maintenance of ban on public gatherings. The restrective measures were first decreed on Dec.23, 2020 for three weeks and […]
Member of the Libyan House of Representatives Mohammed al-Raid has expressed appreciation for Morocco’s “leading and neutral” role in the negotiations between the Libyan parties seeking to reach a solution to the conflict in the North African country. “The distinguished, neutral and clear position of the Kingdom has helped the Libyan parties to reach […]