First Independent Mena Newspaper
Morocco closed 2017 with a record number of 11.35 million tourists visiting the country, that is a 10% rise compared to the previous year. The increase in foreign visitors covered traditional tourist emitting markets: France, Spain and Germany as well as emerging markets including China and Brazil, the tourism ministry said a statement. Revenues of […]
Lieutenant-General Carlos Humberto Loitey, military adviser for UN peacekeeping operations, is currently on a working visit to Morocco for talks with Moroccan military officials on the Kingdom’s contribution to these peacekeeping operations. In this connection and upon the instructions of King Mohammed VI, the UN official held separate meetings with Minister Delegate to the Head […]
Morocco’s international cooperation agency (AMCI) and Spain’s International cooperation for development agency (AECID) vowed to coordinate efforts to set up joint projects in Africa. In this regard, AECID director general Luis Tejada Chacon held talks in Rabat with his Moroccan counterpart Mohamed Methqal during which it was agreed that the two agencies gear efforts in […]
Moroccan security services have seized 541 kilos of cocaine concealed in a container shipped from Latin America to Casablanca. Six people including a Brazilian national suspected of being the “mastermind of a criminal network” were arrested, said on Sunday Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation (BCIJ). Five vehicles and “large sums of money” in Moroccan dirhams […]
King Mohammed VI of Morocco congratulated in a message Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on the occasion of the National Day of his country. In the message, the King expressed heartfelt congratulations and best wishes of health and wellbeing to President Rouhani and “further progress and prosperity to the Iranian brotherly people.” On the same occasion, […]
Head of the Government, Saad Eddine El Otmani, Saturday, visited the eastern town of Jerada, which has witnessed unrest and protest in the wake of the death of three miners in abandoned mines late last year and promised economic alternatives benefiting the locals. During his visit, which came following a study by the mining ministry […]
The Polisario and its supporters in Spain have suffered a new setback after the Spanish Foreign Minister acknowledged Morocco’s legitimate right to explore gas and oil in its territorial waters. Far-left party, Podemos, which supports separatism in the Sahara, has tried to instigate the Spanish government against Morocco’s oil and gas explorations offshore Tan Tan, […]
The Moroccan government has neither approved nor planned direct talks with the Polisario, contrary to what Algerian and Polisario media have claimed. The denial was expressed by Government’s Spokesperson, Mustapha El Khalfi, in a press briefing Thursday, putting an end to the propaganda spread by pro-separatist media, eager for fictive victories after the numerous setbacks […]
In case Morocco won the bid to host the 2026 World Cup bid, the games will take place in the following cities: Casablanca, Marrakesh, Rabat, Fez, Oujda, Tangier, Tetuan, Nador, Meknès, El Jadida, Agadir and Ouarzazate, Sports Minister Rachid Talbi ALami said. The list includes two cities that have so far never hosted international games: […]
Morocco’s economy has generated 86,000 jobs in 2017, of which 32,000 jobs in urban areas and 54,000 in rural areas, figures released by the High Commission for Planning (HCP) showed. According to Morocco’s statistics office, the distribution of this volume of employments showed that 55,000 jobs benefitted men and 31,000 jobs women. By sector, agriculture, […]