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The French Minister for Foreign Trade and Attractiveness reiterated from Casablanca France’s strong desire to raise its economic relations with Morocco to an even higher level and to exploit the many existing opportunities. “Despite the health crisis and travel difficulties, my presence here shows how much the French government wishes to consolidate and increase […]
Morocco has green-lighted a trip by 900 seasonal workers to Corsica to help French farmers there save the clementine season among a shortage of labor. An agreement to this end was reached between Morocco and France. The Moroccan workers will test for Covid-19 in departure and upon arrival. Corsican farmers have booked five flights to […]
Christian Cambon, chairman of the Foreign Affairs, Defense and Armed Forces committee at the French Senate, has praised the important contributions made by Morocco for the peaceful resolution of the Libyan conflict. Mr. Cambon, who also chairs the France-Morocco inter-parliamentary friendship group, has praised the key role played by the North African Kingdom for the […]
A French national of Algerian descent wanted in France for drug trafficking was nabbed Monday in Marrakech by Moroccan police. The fugitive was on Interpol’s most wanted list. He was captured after French judicial authorities issued an international arrest warrant against him for his links with an international network of trafficking of drug and ecstasy, […]
The UN acting envoy to Libya, Stephenie Williams has called for sanctions to be slapped on individuals who might spoil inter-Libyan talks next month to foster the formation of a unity government, Libya Observer reports. “Frankly, you need a unified executive if you want to move toward national elections, because you need a national government […]
Algeria’s ministry of communication announced Wednesday it lodged a complaint against French media M6, it accused of clandestine activities in the oil-rich country following the release on Sunday of a reportage on popular anti-regime popular protests. “The ministry of communication has this Wednesday lodged complaint for the production of the broadcast in Algeria, without […]
The surge of security threats and terrorist groups in the Sahel has imposed a closer cooperation between Morocco, which have centuries-old ties with the region and economic cooperation projects, and France with its anti-terrorism boots on the grounds. In this respect, Minister delegate in charge of Defense Abdellatif Loudiyi met in Rabat with chief of […]
France’s largest hydrocarbons group Axens and the Nigerian conglomerate BUA signed a partnership contract on Tuesday in Paris to carry out the first stage of a refinery project which will be located in Akwa Ibom State, in south-eastern Nigeria. Nigeria, the continent’s leading crude oil producer but which imports almost all of its fuel, seeks […]
The Moroccan diaspora in France warned, Tuesday, against any attempt aimed at using it to spread misleading information about Morocco. The signatories of a platform made public recently sought to “give credibility to the spread of misleading information about Morocco” by involving the Moroccan diaspora. In a press release entitled “Stop the instrumentalization of the […]
Correspondent in Algeria of French news channel France24 was arrested Tuesday on what his lawyer branded “serious charges”. Abdelghani Badi told TSA the prosecutor of the Bir Mourad Raïs court in capital Algiers ordered his client, Moncef Aït Kaci, to be locked. Badi did not elaborate on the charges but said they are “serious”. However, […]