First Independent Mena Newspaper
Morocco exported nearly 3,400 tons of tomatoes to the Irish market during the 2024–2025 season, generating an estimated $7.5 million in record revenue. This volume is double last year’s figure and exceeds the previous record. While Ireland remains a secondary destination, accounting for less than 1% of Morocco’s total tomato exports, its growth trajectory is […]
The Algerian regime has deployed a propaganda campaign for its Polisario chief puppet in Ireland in a bid to deflect the attention from diplomatic setbacks suffered around the world, but the multi-dollar PR operation ended in total failure and disappointment. The Algerian intelligence services have organized a trip to Dublin for Head of Polisario militia […]
The imminent opening of an embassy of Ireland in Morocco was at the center of talks held Tuesday remotely between Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita and his Irish peer Simon Coveney. Ireland, a non-permanent member of the Security Council, is “one of the few member countries of the European Union not present in North Africa, […]
Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney gave the cold shoulder to a Polisario lobbyist and reiterated Ireland’s position in favor of a political solution to the Sahara regional conflict under the umbrella of the UN. As Ireland prepares to open an embassy in Rabat, Coveney told MPS at the question time that his country “supports the […]
The Algerian government will grant scholarships to 400 PhD students to be enrolled at the Irish University of Limerick (UL). The program to cost up to €20 million over four years comes as the North African country embarks on a switch from French to English as the official language of teaching and learning in […]
Morocco offers European investors and businesses a gateway to the emerging African markets, said on Wednesday in Dublin Speaker of the Irish Parliament Seán Ó Fearghaíl. The Irish official made the remarks after signing with Moroccan peer Habib El Malki an agreement to boost cooperation ties between the two countries’ legislative institutions. Mr. Ó Fearghaíl […]
Senior Irish officials voiced on Friday their full support to the process led by the Secretary General of the United Nations for the resolution of the Sahara issue. During meetings held in Dublin with a delegation of elected representatives from Morocco’s Southern Provinces, the Irish officials welcomed the in-depth, productive and enlightening presentations made by […]
The main source of foreign direct investment in Morocco in 2018 was Ireland, which accounted for 30% of FDIs flows, according to preliminary figures released by the Office des Changes. Thus, out of a total of 34.16 billion Dirhams, Ireland injected in Morocco 9.68 billion Dirhams (+ 6 billion dirhams in one year). France took […]
Police in Dublin have launched an investigation into the killing of a Moroccan teenager stabbed to death last week in Dublin, as he was in his way to mosque, Morocco World News reports. An unknown assailant attacked and stabbed Azzam Ragragui to death in the Irish capital, on Friday as the Moroccan young man was […]
The 2016 Economic Freedom of the World Report issued by the Canadian Fraser Institute pointed out to the plummeting economic freedom in Algeria, which ranked 151st among 159 surveyed countries. The report measures economic freedom including levels of personal choice, ability to enter markets, security of privately owned property and rule of law. It analyses […]