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Director General of National Security and Territorial Surveillance, Abdellatif Hammouchi, held a meeting, Tuesday in Rabat, with the Inspector General of the Israeli police, Yaakov Shabti, that focused on cooperation relations in the security field. The Israeli official is on a working visit to Morocco at the head of a large security delegation. The visit […]
Rabat and Paris reiterated their commitment to reinforce security cooperation notably in terms of intelligence sharing, Morocco’s interior ministry said in a statement. The two countries stepped up their judicial cooperation as well as joint efforts against illegal migration and all sorts of trafficking as well as counter-terrorism, reads the statement issued after talks in […]
Ways of enhancing further security cooperation between Morocco and the United States were at the center of talks held Thursday in Rabat between US ambassador to Morocco David Fischer and Abdellatif Hammouchi, Director-General of national police and domestic intelligence agency. The two sides also discussed coordination mechanisms in the fight against terrorism, violent extremism, organized […]
Mauritania is looking to Morocco as an economic and security ally in a region plagued by instability and closed-borders. After a political and diplomatic rapprochement that ended years of aloofness sowed by the previous Mauritanian administration, Morocco and Mauritania now look forward to fostering security cooperation. Two high-level delegations of Mauritanian security and military officials […]
Security cooperation between Morocco and Spain has acted as a bulwark against terrorist plots with the arrest in the North African country of a terrorist four days ago planning attacks on Spanish Sevilla. Spanish media reported that the suspect was planning terrorist attacks on Sevilla as it prepares to host the Semana Santa religious festival […]
Leading Tanzanian news outlet, dailynews.co.tz, stressed that Morocco’s return to the African union will be conducive to the continent’s economic development and security cooperation. “Morocco, one of the founders of the Organization of African Unity, the predecessor of the current African Union, has much to offer the continental body in terms of economic cooperation, security […]
President Francois Hollande of France has expressed his country’s thanks to King Mohammed VI for the “effective assistance” provided by Morocco following the Paris terror attacks that shook the French capital a week ago. This came during a meeting between the two heads of State held Friday afternoon at the Elysée, the French presidential palace. […]