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The Flintlock 2017 military exercises were launched in the Tifnit training base in Morocco’s southern zone area of operations with the participation of US experts and more than 2,000 military personnel from 24 African and Western nations. The tenth annual iteration of the exercise was launched by Moroccan and US military representatives on February 27 […]
The President of the Economic Commission for West African States (ECOWAS), Marcel Alain De Souza, met on Thursday in Abuja, Moha Ou Ali Tagma, who handed him his credentials as Morocco’s Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to the sub-regional organization. Morocco, which has an observer status in the ECOWAS and is bound by strong relations with […]
Moroccan Attijariwafa Bank Group has inked two partnership agreements with the Ministry of Defense of Côte d’Ivoire, showing the two countries strong determination to improve the working and living conditions for the members of the Ivorian army. The two deals were signed in Abidjan under the chairmanship of President Alassane Ouattara and King Mohammed VI […]
Morocco Confirms it is a Major Economic Force in the Continent Since announcing its willingness to regain its legitimate place within the African Union in July 2016, Morocco added momentum to its economic diplomacy in Africa, signing 113 cooperation agreements with African countries in fields as varied as agriculture, renewable energies, banking, tourism, airline, telecommunication, […]
About 170 Senegalese migrants who were in detention centers in Tripoli have been deported back to the west-African nation, local media reported on Thursday. The migrants were sent back home early Thursday from the Mitiga airport east of Tripoli under the supervision of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). “There was coordination with the immigration […]
The Senegalese private TV channel 2Stv has received a warning from the country’s authorities for airing a program calling for armed protest against Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, reports say. The private channel reportedly aired on January 20 a program in which Ahmed Vall Messaoud, a former Mauritanian governor and now a human right […]
U.S. Africa Command, AFRICOM, together with the Moroccan Armed Forces (FAR) and members of armies from sub-Saharan African countries are currently conducting military exercises focusing on performance in mined terrains in Agadir, local press reported. According to a senior official from FAR, the military drills aim notably at enhancing performance in terms of field command, […]
In an effort to diversify the visitor source market, Morocco is launching a charm offensive to attract African tourist to the Kingdom with the opening of a branch of Morocco’s tourism promotion office (ONMT) in Senegal’s capital, Dakar. The office in Dakar is the first in an African country in line with the momentum that […]
Local Mauritanian media reported that Morocco might be preparing for a mediation to unlock the political crisis in Gambia that was triggered after President Yahya Jammeh refused to accept his election defeat. Nasser Bourita, the Kingdom’s minister delegate of foreign affairs is reportedly present in the Mauritanian capital, Nouakchott, Mauritanian media outlet Alakhbar said. The […]
King Mohammed VI of Morocco won the 2016 Mandela Peace Prize awarded by the Paris-based Mandela Institute. King Mohammed VI has been awarded the prize in recognition of his “contribution to the building of a society of justice and peace between humans and nations, in addition to his efforts to promote the development of Africa […]