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US has exported more gas to Spain than Algeria so far this year as new players seek a foothold in the Spanish gas market. Spanish authorities have often complained at the insufficient gas flow through the Medgaz pipeline which couldn’t match the amount the Spanish market was receiving through the Maghreb-Europe pipeline that used to […]
The Russia-Ukraine war is reshaping the global trade & supply chain as Western nations have imposed severe economic and financial sanctions on Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine. Morocco is the 3rd supplier of fertilizers to Brazil after Russia and Belarus. To avoid a shortage of the nutrients due to the international sanctions and escalating […]
Malian authorities, dominated by the military, announced on Sunday that they were banning the movement of civilians in the border area with Mauritania, where a number of Mauritanians disappeared in early March. They also announced the opening of an investigation by the military court in Bamako. These disappearances, two months after the death of seven […]
The Moroccan carrier Royal Air Maroc inaugurated, this Sunday, March 13, 2022, the first direct flight of its regular line linking Casablanca to Tel Aviv. To celebrate this event, a Moroccan delegation made up of economic operators and other personalities were aboard the plane of the inaugural trip to take part in a series of […]
The Mexico-Morocco Friendship Club has reiterated its support for the autonomy plan as the “only” solution to the regional conflict over the Sahara, and condemned the separatists’ attempts aimed at destabilizing the Sahara and Sahel region. “We reiterate our support for the Moroccan proposal for autonomy and we condemn the separatist plans which attempt to […]
Coast Guards of the Moroccan Royal Navy, operating in the Mediterranean, aborted, Friday, a drug trafficking operation east of Al Hoceima, says a military source. This operation led to the seizure of 53 bundles of narcotics abandoned by a go-fast boat which fled at high speed when approached by units of the Royal Navy, the […]
The United States government, through AFRICOM, donated two field hospital systems to Morocco’s Ministry of Health at a ceremony held Friday at the Ministry of Health’s logistics depot in Salé. The first system is a five-bed Intensive Care Unit valued at $960,000 and the second system is a mobile emergency room valued at $700,000. These […]
Repatriation efforts by the Moroccan government managed to repatriate more than 2800 Moroccan students from war-hit Ukraine since February 15, according to official data. Moroccan flag carrier RAM has organized 16 flights to neighboring countries where Moroccan consular services assisted students who left the war zone. Royal Air Maroc had planned in late February, special […]
Mauritania and Morocco held their 8th High Joint Commission, during which officials from the two countries voiced strong willingness to unlock bilateral cooperation prospects. The event was co-chaired by the head of the Moroccan government, Aziz Akhannouch, and the Mauritanian Prime Minister, Mohamed Ould Bilal in Rabat Friday. Speaking at the opening of the event, […]
Tunisians are suffering from a shortage of basic foodstuff which the President ascribed to food profiteering and speculators. In the wake of soaring food prices in international markets, president Kais Saied said in a presidency statement that he was launching a “relentless war on speculators and criminals.” Food speculators could face heavy prison sentences as […]