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Mauritania and its northern neighbor, Morocco, have inked several cooperation agreements meant to give a new momentum to their partnership in various sectors of common interest. The two countries, members of Arab Maghreb Union gathering also Algeria, Tunisia and Libya, have agreed to bolster joint actions and projects in the fields of transport, energy & […]
Sanofi-Aventis pharmaceutical group has opened a state-of-art logistics hub in Casablanca, Morocco, giving a new impetus to the thriving pharmaceutical industry in the North African nation. The facility, built over a 12,000-sq/m2 zone, cost the Paris-based company an investment of 20 million euros. It will handle 1,300 products destined for local market and for export […]
The situation in Mali, the fight against terrorism and the strengthening of trans-border security are on top of the agenda of the 5+5 Dialogue meeting convening in Nouakchott Tuesday. The Foreign Ministers of the countries forming this informal sub-regional body that brings together 5 Western Mediterranean countries (France, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Spain) and their North […]
The United States and Morocco are to hold later this month a joint multi-lateral exercise dubbed “Exercise African Lion-13” that will involve more than 1,400 U.S. service members and approximately 900 members of the Moroccan Royal Armed Forces, announced the US Africa Command (Africom). The two countries’ servicemen will conduct military-to-military engagements in various exercises […]
President François Hollande of France is paying as of Wednesday a two-day state visit to Morocco, his first since his election in May last year. The aims of this visit are both political and economic, Morocco being France’s major partner in the Maghreb and France being Morocco’s closest friend in Europe. “The relationship between the […]
In the mid of the 2008 financial meltdown, countries from the periphery injected their hard-won money into the rescue of Western financial institutions and near-defaulting governments. Those events have definitely cleared the way for the arrival of new powers on the international scene, showed in the rush at calling up an enlarged G-20 in early […]
Globalization is generally viewed as the inevitable solution to many of the world’s inequality issues, especially where access to education and educational resources are concerned. Technology as a facilitator of educational equity through increased access to education and educational resources is also viewed as an inevitable leveler of the proverbial global playing field. Technology is […]
The World Bank has approved a $203 million loan for Morocco to support the efforts made by the North African country to modernize its agricultural sector expected to create 1.5 million jobs by 2020, offer better opportunities to small and large-scale farmers and enhance their competitiveness. Morocco has mapped out an ambitious national strategy for […]
Western Sahara was front and center in CNN’s latest edition of Amanpour, marking a rare instance in which the oft-overlooked and stalemated conflict has been treated as more than a peripheral issue in the Western media. Amanpour hosted and plugged a new documentary film on the Western Sahara that claims to shed light on the […]
In a gloomy economic environment, Morocco turned its eyes from Europe and opened its hand towards the South, wanting to free itself from the shackles and chains locked by trade agreements with a self-centered Europe. According to African countries, the EU uses its quotas and standards as leverage against them. The recent African tour led […]