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The African Lion military exercises kicked off with the participation of about 1300 military personnel from the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Spain and Tunisia. “We are excited to conduct training with our Moroccan partners. African Lion gives us the ability to enhance our operational capabilities in an unfamiliar, yet non-austere, […]
The World Economic Forum issued the 2017 Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index placing Morocco on top of North African countries, third in the continent and 65th in the globe. Morocco came ahead of Tunisia (87th) and Egypt (74th) while Algeria (136th) took the very last position in the report, which offers an in-depth analysis of […]
The German judicial authorities Wednesday green-lighted the deportation of a Tunisian man wanted by his country’s authorities for his alleged involvement in Bardo and Ben Guerdane attacks. Frankfort administration court has allowed the man’s deportation but on condition that Tunisian authorities prove that he will not be subject to torture or handed death penalty, reports […]
Morocco has received strong backing from the newly inaugurated boss of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for its twin bid to host the 2026 World Cup. “We are convinced that Morocco could organize this competition just as South Africa did in 2010,” said Ahmad Ahmad, addressing a press conference in Marrakesh earlier this week. […]
Angela Merkel has reportedly declined an invitation from Algerian authorities who called off in the last moment a visit by the German Chancellor last February due to the falling health of Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. The Algerian press reported that Merkel was very upset with the last minute cancellation of the two-day visit during which […]
Special Operation Forces from the US and Morocco wrapped up the joint military exercises centring on advanced communication and medical skills during Operation Flintlock 2017. The exercises took place in Tifnit training base in Morocco’s southern zone area of operations with the participation of US experts and more than 2,000 military personnel from 24 African […]
The Flintlock 2017 military exercises were launched in the Tifnit training base in Morocco’s southern zone area of operations with the participation of US experts and more than 2,000 military personnel from 24 African and Western nations. The tenth annual iteration of the exercise was launched by Moroccan and US military representatives on February 27 […]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that an agreement has been sealed with Tunisian authorities to speed up the process of repatriating the Tunisians who failed to obtain the status of refugee in Germany after a rejected Tunisian awaiting deportation killed 12 people at a Berlin market in December. Merkel made the announcement during a two-day […]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged visiting Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed to speed up the process of repatriating the Tunisians who failed to obtain the status of refugee in Germany after a rejected Tunisian awaiting deportation killed 12 people at a Berlin market in December. Weakened by her open-door migrant policy, Merkel met Chahed in […]
Visiting Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed Monday flatly rejected German accusations that Tunisia bears responsibility for the December carnage in which 12 people lost their lives after Tunisian asylum seeker Anis Amri ploughed a lorry through a Christmas market in capital Berlin. Germany accuses Tunisian authorities for failure to cooperate with German authorities over the […]