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Yasmina Filali Head of la Fondation Orient Occident was announced Thursday winner of Swiss-based Schwab Foundation’s 2016 Social Entrepreneur Award for her excellent action in “providing job training to underprivileged Moroccans, sub-Saharan migrants and refugees.” Yasmina Filali features among 11 other laureates crowned by a high profile jury committee chaired by Bangladeshi Mohammad Yunus of […]
Mrs. Latifa Ibn Ziaten, a French national of Moroccan origin, has been among a group of women from around the world honored this year by the US Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage Award. This Award is given to extraordinary women for their exceptional courage and leadership in advocating for peace, justice, human rights, […]
French intelligence agencies are recruiting informants in Morocco and other Maghreb countries part of efforts to beef-up their anti-terrorism squads as terrorist threats continue to loom on the country in the aftermath of the Paris attacks of last November 13. After the Paris attacks, the French Ministry of Defense decided to be more vigilant and […]
France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault Thursday announced Paris will next Monday propose sanctions against Libyan officials who still pose a threat to the UN-backed political process stumbling on opposed interests. “I do not exclude threatening them with sanctions. In any case, that is what I will propose to my foreign affairs colleagues on Monday in […]
IS group is planning major, Paris-style attacks in the UK and may choose the Queen’s Birthday celebrations as target events to strike, Britain’s top anti-terror officer warned on Tuesday. Scotland Yard Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley stated that IS is aiming at the UK and that intelligence gathered revealed that the expanding group is determined to […]
An Algerian, allegedly linked to the November 13 attacks in Paris has been arrested and placed in detention at Akbou, near Béjaïa. The man appeared before Akbou court after he was summoned by the judge who put him in detention on February 23. According to Algerian local daily “Le Soir d’Algérie,” the suspect is Zouhir […]
King Mohammed VI of Morocco on Tuesday visited his country’s consulate general in Orly in the Paris neighborhood to assess the work of the consular staff and their performance in meeting the Moroccan expatriates’ needs. The visit translates the King’s keen interest in the situation of Moroccan citizens living abroad and his concern to see […]
The Moroccan cultural center to be built in Paris will enhance further the deeply rooted cultural ties between Morocco and France, said Wednesday French President Francois Hollande. The details of the project of this new cultural institution were unveiled on Wednesday in the presence of King Mohammed VI who is paying a working and friendship […]
Morocco’s Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation has dismantled a heavily armed 10-member terror cell that was active in Essaouira, Meknes and Sidi Kacem, the Interior Ministry announced on Thursday. A French national was among the cell members, the Ministry said, adding that the anti-terrorist brigade of the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation (BCIJ,) called Morocco’s […]
The summit talks held on Wednesday at the Elysée Palace between the French President François Hollande and his guest King Mohammed VI, who just started a working and friendship visit to France, were topped by the crucial issue of climate change as the North African country braces to take over from France the chairmanship of […]