First Independent Mena Newspaper
More countries have joined the group of 28 member states of the African union, which addressed last Monday a motion to the AU chair expressing support to Morocco’s return to its African family and demanding the suspension of the self-proclaimed Sahrawi Republic from the pan-African organization. In this vein, Egypt’s Ambassador in Rabat, Ihab Jamaleddine […]
The days of the self-proclaimed SADR as a member of the African Union seem to be counted after 28 African countries called for suspending the membership of the Algerian-based republic from all the bodies and activities of the African Union. This came in a motion submitted by the 28 African nations to the President of […]
Morocco’s Addoha group has launched, through its subsidiary CIMAF, the construction of a new cement plant with an output capacity of 700,000 tons per year. The plant, located in Bobo-Dioulasso, the second the city of the West African country, will cost about €25 million and will be completed in 18 months. The new plant will […]
The American government and Senegal on Monday signed a cooperation agreement to ease the deployment of American troops to the West African nation to counter humanitarian crises, natural disasters or terrorist attacks. The accord will give US troops access to areas in Senegal, such as airports and military installations, in order to respond to security […]
King Mohammed VI of Morocco has condemned in the most vigorous terms the simultaneous terror attacks that targeted Sunday the Ivorian seaside resort of Grand Bassam. The King sent a message of condolences to President Alassane Ouattara and also talked to him over the phone. According to a statement released by the Royal Office Sunday […]
Intelligence sources have claimed that the militants of the IS group in Libya have begun to flee southwards and could be heading to neighboring Sahel countries as fears over western airstrikes increase. Colonel Mahamane Laminou Sani, Director of Niger’s armed forces documentation and military intelligence agency, confirmed that militants of the extremist group are “moving […]
Morocco has vehemently condemned the terrorist attacks that targeted the capital city of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, as a blow to peace and stability in this sisterly country and as a blow to the efforts being made to establish democracy. At least 30 people of some 20 nationalities have been killed in the attacks staged at […]
The one-day 4th Summit of the Pan-African Agency for the Great Green Belt held in Mauritania this Monday with the participation of several African Heads of State concerned by the desert encroachment has reignited the debate over the arrest of Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir. President Omar Al-Bashir arrived, Sunday, in Mauritanian capital city Nuakchott, leading […]
Maroc Telecom’s growth expectations for 2014 have been fulfilled as the net income of Morocco’s leading telecommunications group increased by 5.6% to MAD 5.850 billion compared to MAD 5.540 billion a year earlier, i.e. a net margin of 20.1% in progress by 0.7 points. Last year, the consolidated revenue of Itissalat Al Maghrib or IAM […]
French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian stressed the need to find a political solution to the Libyan crisis rather than another military operation in the North African country plunged in chaos since the collapse of the Kaddafi regime. The French official, who was visiting Madama, Northern Niger, where a French military base is being built […]