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Morocco’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York stressed on its X account that Morocco welcomes the UN Security Council’s adoption on Monday of resolution 2728, which calls for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip during the month of Ramadan. “This resolution is a crucial step towards putting an end to the […]
Morocco’s tourism arrivals will continue to expand in 2024, building on the market’s ability to recover to its pre-pandemic arrival (2019) levels in 2023, says Fitch Solutions in its latest business monitoring report. Over the medium term (2024-2028), a projected annual growth of 4.4% will be supported by the government’s 2023-2026 Tourism Strategic Roadmap, adds […]
A visiting delegation of the US Congress commended, Monday, the leadership of King Mohammed VI in promoting regional peace and stability. Morocco and the United States are working together to promote a more stable and secure region, US Congressman (R-Texas) August Pfluger told the press following talks in Rabat with Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nasser […]
Ways to strengthen the strategic relationship existing between Morocco and the United States were reviewed at a meeting in Rabat this Monday Head of Government, Aziz Akhannouch, and a six-member delegation of US Congressmen representing both the Republican and Democratic parties. During the meeting, the two parties surveyed the various aspects of multi-sector bilateral cooperation, […]
Efret logistics Company has launched lately a road freight service from the UK to Morocco, a politically stable and business-friendly country increasingly looking to new markets to promote growth. The expansion of the Moroccan economy is creating new opportunities for UK firms. Last year, UK’s exports to the North African Kingdom reached £1.4 billion which […]
King Mohammed VI sent a message of condolences and solidarity to Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin, following the terrorist attack that targeted a concert hall in Moscow and that left many people killed or injured, describing the assault as “heinous and reprehensible.” In this message, the Sovereign expressed Morocco’s strong condemnation of this cowardly and criminal […]
King Mohammed VI, Commander of the Faithful, accompanied by Prince Moulay Rachid and Prince Moulay Ismail, chaired, on Saturday at the Royal Palace in Casablanca, the third religious lecture of the holy month of Ramadan 1445 AH. The lecture was given by Moustapha Al Bahyaoui, Chair Professor of Exegesis (Tafssir), under the theme “The proposition […]
A Royal Navy patrol boat intercepted, on Friday, 260 km southwest off the southern city of Dakhla, a pirogue carrying 165 sub-Sharan would-be migrants, including 4 corpses. The pirogue, which had intended to reach the Canary Islands, set sail on March 6, the General Staff of the Royal Armed Forces said in a press […]
The European Union reaffirmed, in its 2023 report, the positive socio-economic impact of the agricultural agreement with Morocco, and the full benefit of the agreement’s provisions for the population of the kingdom’s southern provinces. The publication of this annual report by the European Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS) comes on the heels […]
The Spanish presidency has dismissed the allegations that Morocco had spied on its Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez or carried hostile acts against Spain. This came in a Spanish annual security report 2023 by its counter-espionage service which dedicated a large section to Morocco given the cooperation ties between the two countries in critical areas such […]