First Independent Mena Newspaper
As African leaders converged on Germany’s capital earlier this week to attend the G20 ‘Compact for Africa’ meeting, the African Union (AU) chief called for “positive competition” from Europe in the continent, which would be more welcome than its criticism of Chinese investments for saddling poor countries with huge debts. While addressing the high-level meeting […]
Leaders from more than a dozen African countries have gathered in Germany’s capital city for the G20 Compact with Africa conference, which aims to help bolster private investment in the world’s poorest, but fast-growing, continent. Underlining renewed interest in Africa, leaders of Italy, France, Germany have all visited Africa this year, viewing it as a […]
Ways of promoting cooperation between Morocco and Germany were discussed at a meeting that gathered in Berlin this Sunday Head of Government Aziz Akhannouch and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The meeting provided an opportunity to exchange views on several issues of common interest, and to examine possible ways of upgrading economic and commercial partnerships. During […]
During a visit to Tanzania, German President Frank Walter Steinmeier has asked the country and its people to forgive Germany’s colonial abuses under its colonial rule. Steinmeier’s move to ask for forgiveness from the descendants of hundreds of thousands of victims of violence committed by German colonial rulers more than a century ago has been […]
Morocco and Germany have signed on Monday a joint declaration of intent aimed at strengthening cooperation between the two countries’ Interior Ministries in the areas of security, migration, civil protection, and the fight against different forms of cross-border crime, on the basis of equality, equal treatment, common interest and mutual esteem. The Declaration of intent […]
Thanks to tips and accurate information provided by Morocco’s General Directorate for the Surveillance of the National Territory (DGST) to the German intelligence services, a German-Egyptian national who was planning large-scale terrorist attacks in Germany, including a ramming attack, has been identified and arrested. The vigilance of Moroccan services have thus spared Germany a massacre. […]
Germany’s announcement last month that it would provide greater support to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), in its efforts to secure peace in the region and prevent future crises, suggests that European leaders see the organization as crucial to the future stability of West Africa. The agreement to provide greater financial support […]
The development of Moroccan-German cooperation was the focus of a seminar held in Berlin on Friday by the German-Moroccan Skills Network “DMK”. The meeting, placed under the theme “Strategic dialogue to promote development cooperation”, was held as part of the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the signing of the cooperation agreement between Morocco and […]
The German Federal government has voiced readiness to support Morocco’s reconstruction of the Atlas Mountain villages destroyed by the devastating earthquake that hit the country on Sept.08. The supportive stand was expressed Thursday by German State Secretary Jochen Flasbarth in a tweet posted following his meeting in Rabat with Moroccan foreign minister Nasser Bourita He […]
The Moroccan Ministry of Digital Transition and the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) have signed two partnership agreements, aimed at promoting the digital transformation of the administration and the digital inclusion of very small, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Morocco. The two agreements, worth €8 million, were inked in Rabat by Minister of […]