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Morocco will provide venues for seven African countries for the next matches of FIFA 2022 World Cup qualifiers as they lack professional stadiums meeting world football governing body’s standards. Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Sudan, Djibouti and Mozambique host their opponents for coming fixtures. Moulay Abdellah complex in Rabat will host Guinea vs Sudan while […]
Djibouti and the Union of the Comors have joined the growing list of countries that have deplored Algeria’s decision to cut diplomatic relations with Morocco. Djibouti on Sunday expressed its “deep regret” over Algeria’s decision and called for settling the dispute through diplomatic channels. Djibouti’s foreign Ministry underlined in a statement that the “Republic of […]
The government of Djibouti has reaffirmed its strong backing to Morocco’s territorial integrity and to a negotiated political solution to the Sahara issue under the exclusive aegis of the United Nations. The stand was voiced Tuesday by Djibouti’s foreign minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf during talks he held remotely with Moroccan peer Nasser Bourita. Rabat […]
Part of the Moroccan private sector’ s increasing investments in the Horn of Africa, the group SOMAGEC is contributing to the building of an oil terminal in Djibouti. The Moroccan public works and civil engineering company is providing its expertise to Djibouti, which launched on Thursday the construction works of the new oil jetty, […]
The presidents of Somalia and the former province of British Somalia that seceded in 1991, called Somaliland, met face to face for the first time on Sunday June 14 in Djibouti. Officially, it was a “consultation summit” intended, above all, to open negotiations on the conflictual relations between the two capitals. After being greeted on […]
Djibouti and Burundi are the latest in a series of African countries that opened consular services in the Sahara in support of Morocco’s sovereignty over its south. With the opening Friday of Djibouti’s consulate in Dakhla and Burundi’s representation in Laayoune, the two African states were on the footsteps of the Comoros, Sao Tome […]
Morocco and Djibouti signed Monday in Rabat a framework agreement aimed at strengthening bilateral cooperation in the fields of energy, mining and geology and at providing an interaction platform for stakeholders and investors in these sectors. The framework agreement is part of Morocco’s African strategy seeking to support the sustainable development of the continent, mainly […]
Morocco and Djibouti have discussed means of upgrading their bilateral military cooperation at a meeting held Thursday in Rabat between FAR Inspector General Lt General Abdelfattah Louarak, and Chief of General Staff of Djibouti Armed Forces Lt General Zakaria Sheikh Ibrahim. The two military officials expressed satisfaction at the excellent partnership between the Royal Armed […]
French President Emmanuel Macron who is touring East Africa, with stops in Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya, has pledged to invest $2.8 billion in Africa by financing and supporting startups and small- to – medium-sized enterprises by 2022. Macron, who started his trip to East Africa Monday, said the French government would support about 10,000 enterprises […]
President Emmanuel Macron of France Wednesday vowed to establish security and environment cooperation between his country and Kenya as he kicked off the third and last leg of his East African tour that brought him to Djibouti and Ethiopia. “We want to improve cooperation in the region from the security and defense point of view,” […]