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Spanish car component manufacturer, Teknia Group, has opened a new plant in Tangier to boost its production capacity. The new factory, which replaces an existing plant set up by the group in 2011, is built over a surface area of 2,700 square meters, the Group said in a statement. The Spanish group operates in the […]
Morocco is promoting its 2026 World Cup bid within the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington as a senior Moroccan delegation paid visits to the two international financial institutions to highlight the Kingdom’s potential. The visit (March 13-14) was a chance for the Moroccan delegation to shed light on Morocco’s […]
Morocco is looking carefully to the situation in the Sahel where terrorists are increasingly resorting to organized crime and trafficking to fund their activities, head of Morocco’s counterterrorism agency, BCIJ, Abdelhak Khiame said. Speaking to local press, Khiame rang the alarm bell regarding the fallout of the connivance between terrorists and organized crime groups on […]
Morocco purchased 12% of overall arms imports in Africa maintaining its position as the second largest buyer of weapons on the continent over the 2013-2017 period, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said in a recent report. Morocco was ranked ahead of Nigeria with 5.1% of African arms imports and was preceded by Algeria, […]
The positive performance of the Moroccan economy enabled North Africa to achieve the second highest growth rate of 4.9% at the African level, the African Development Bank said. The performance of the Moroccan economy, which saw growth rise from 1.2% in 2016 to 4.1% in 2017 gave a boost to North African posted the second […]
The Republic of the Congo and Morocco signed an agreement under which the Kingdom will conduct a feasibility study on the preservation of the Congo basin. The preservation of the Congo basin aims to strengthen the contribution of non-state actors, civil society, indigenous peoples and community organizations to improving forest governance, sustainable forest management and […]
Morocco’s aviation industry is cruising full speed steadily and spreading its wings for takeoff. This is what the figures released by the aeronautics federation (GIMAS) show. The domestic sourcing rate of the sector jumped from 17% in 2016 to 29% in 2017, while exports value rose by 18.4 during the same period. This progress is […]
Morocco and Qatar signed 11 cooperation agreements covering education, culture, youth, media, finance, banking, housing, training, handicrafts and agriculture. The agreements were signed at the end of the seventh Moroccan-Qatari high Joint commission in Rabat under the chairmanship of head of government Saâd Eddine El Othmani and Qatar’s Prime minister and Interior minister Abdullah bin […]
The Sephardic Synagogue Magen David in Washington expressed its gratitude to King Mohammed VI for launching a restoration project of cemeteries of Moroccan-born Jews. A ceremony was organized by the Synagogue during which participants lauded the lofty actions of the King to preserve the Moroccan Jewish heritage at home and abroad. The event was attended […]
Football federations of African countries have expressed outspoken support for Morocco’s bid to host the 2026 World Cup in a tough competition against its mighty rival: the joint North American bid (US, Canada and Mexico). On the footsteps of the African football federation chief, the football federations of Guinea-Bissau and Algeria announced that they will […]