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Spain remained Morocco’s top trading partner in 2016 with trade turnover totaling $10.6 billion up from $9.3 billion in 2015, Morocco’s foreign exchange regulatory authority, L’Office des Changes said. Between 2015 and 2016, Morocco’s imports from Spain rose from $4.4 billion to $6.2 billion, while its exports to the country jumped from $4.2 billion to […]
Spanish and Moroccan police have netted close to four tons of cocaine with a street value of over €100 million and seized €13 million in cash in an operation that resulted in the dismantlement of a drug trafficking network. The Spanish Interior Ministry said that 40 people were arrested in a long-term anti-trafficking operation, in […]
Morocco has renewed its full support to Spain’s national unity and sovereignty and affirmed that it does not recognize and will not recognize the unilateral declaration of independence of Catalonia. Morocco, which faces itself for several years to a separatist threat, does not recognize and will not recognize in the future the unilateral declaration of […]
Morocco is set to bolster its reconnaissance capabilities through the launch of a state-of-the-art satellite. The move has stirred fears in Algeria. After Spanish media raised concerns of Spain’s military officials over Morocco’s spy satellite, comes the turn of Algeria, which looks at Morocco’s steps to gain satellite technology with a suspicious eye. “Total panic”, […]
As Morocco prepares to launch its first reconnaissance satellite on November, Spanish military officials are voicing their concerns. The satellite will bridge the gap in terms of spatial reconnaissance between Morocco and Spain to the disappointment of Spanish military officials who are keen to maintain their country’s upper hand, Spain’s El Pais paper reported. Despite […]
The Moroccan government has described as “irresponsible” Catalonia’s unilateral secessionist move and renewed its strong backing to Spain’s sovereignty, national unity and territorial integrity. “Morocco rejects the unilateral process of the independence of Catalonia, and voices its attachment to the sovereignty, national unity and territorial integrity of Spain”, said a statement issued Wednesday by the […]
The Spanish group Planeta, one of the world’s leaders in publishing and higher education, has decided to open in Rabat, Morocco’s capital city, two schools for students wishing to be trained in the fields of business and tourism. The announcement was made Thursday by the group’s chairman Jose Manuel Garcia. The two schools, to open […]
As it was expected for many days, the Peruvian authorities expelled on Wednesday Khadijetou El Mokhtar, the so-called “representative” of the Polisario after spending more than 15 days at Lima airport because she was denied entry. The fake envoy, who lost all appeals, was put in a plane back to Madrid where she came from. […]
The sound cooperation between Moroccan and Spanish security services in the fight against terrorism has led to the arrest of 175 jihadists, said interior minister Juan Ignacio Zoido. In a interview published lately by La Razon, the Spanish official described neighboring Morocco as “a friend, a partner and an ally” of Spain in the war […]
The Spanish government has recognized the failure of its border fence policy to stop the flow of migrants to its enclaves in northern Morocco and announced measures amounting to €10.7 million to reinforce border security in Ceuta. The six-meter barbed wire fence could not thwart thousands of migrants from taking the risk of crossing into […]