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King Mohammed VI has dispatched Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita as his special envoy to several Gulf countries, part of the sovereign’s efforts to help ease the current tension poisoning relations between Qatar and its neighbors. In the context of this Gulf tour, Nasser Bourita delivered this Tuesday a verbal message from King Mohammed VI to […]
The previously announced official visit to Morocco by newly elected French President, Emmanuel Macron, is rather a private visit aiming at strengthening the bonds of friendship with King Mohammed VI. A statement of the French presidency has confirmed that the visit, due on June 14-15, has a private and family character. In a briefing at […]
Morocco will send planes loaded with food stuff to Qatar in a sign of solidarity that has no political dimension, in the wake of the crisis that unfolded after Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt as well as other Arab and African countries broke off diplomatic ties with Doha and closed their air, land […]
Morocco has scored precious diplomatic points in the UN-led negotiations to settle the Sahara issue, thanks to the leadership of King Mohammed VI, said Spanish paper, La Provincia. The King’s policy regarding the Sahara has given Morocco an upper hand in the Sahara issue evidenced by the increasing withdrawals of recognition of the Algerian-based SADR […]
Newly elected French President Emmanuel Macron will pay an official visit to Morocco on June 14-15, the Elysée announced. The visit to Morocco will be the first for the French President to the Maghreb after his election last May. This first visit to Morocco and to the Maghreb by President Macron, who will be accompanied […]
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) gave its initial agreement to Morocco’s membership request at the 51st summit of the sub-regional grouping held in Liberia’s capital, Monrovia. In a statement following the summit, the West African Heads of State “approved in principle” Morocco’s bid to join the West African trading bloc in light […]
King Mohammed VI of Morocco canceled his visit to Monrovia where he was supposed to attend the 51st summit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), which will examine Morocco’s bid to join the West African grouping. The decision was made against the backdrop of the controversy surrounding the presence of Israeli Prime […]
As Morocco gather’s support for its membership of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), a Moroccan delegation will attend the bi-annual summit of the west African sub-regional grouping, in Liberia’s capital, Monrovia. The delegation, led by Morocco’s Ambassador to Abuja, Moha Ouali Tagma, will hold talks with West African officials ahead of the […]
King Mohammed VI of Morocco has been awarded the Order of La Pléiade, the highest honorary order of the International Organization of la Francophonie, in recognition of his determining role in promoting the values of dialogue and tolerance. The Monarch was handed the decoration on Wednesday by President of the Parliamentary Assembly of La Francophonie, […]
Several Medersas, mostly dating back to the fourteenth century, have been rehabilitated in the frame of the rehabilitation program of the old medina of Fez and will thus play again the role that was theirs in the past as educational institutions, specializing in Islamic religious sciences, Islamic law and Classical Arabic. King Mohammed VI, Commander […]