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The United Kingdom Tuesday lifted travel restrictions to Egypt’s Red Sea Sharm el-Sheikh resort, four years after the Islamic State group (ISIS) brought down a Russian passenger jet. British authorities in 2015 imposed ban on flights to and from the resort city in reaction to the downing of the aircraft shortly after takeoff. The jet […]
The collapse of British airline Thomas Cook will cost Moroccan hotels over $20 million (200 million dirhams) in due payments, said Morocco’s tourism operators. The local media is also speaking of a loss of 100,000 annually. Last year Thomas Cook carried 102,000 tourists mainly from Britain to the cities of Agadir and Marrakech. The tourism […]
The UK government said it wants closer cooperation ties with Morocco and expressed its full support for the North African country’s efforts to settle the Sahara conflict as part of the UN process. The British position was expressed following the second UK-Morocco Strategic Dialogue held in Rabat Tuesday with the attendance of Middle East Minister […]
Hundreds of thousands of people starving in South Sudan will receive lifesaving food and water, courtesy of the UK aid. Minister for Africa, Andrew Stephenson, announced an extra £18 million of UK aid on his first visit, in his new role, to South Sudan. The visit started Monday. Andrew Stephenson who held talks Tuesday […]
Kuwait’s private airline Jazeera Airways will launch from October 27 its direct flights to London, one year after agreement to allow private jets to fly passengers between the two countries. The low-cost airline will operate flights with A320neo aircraft with cabin configuration in three classes: business class, a new premium economy class and economy […]
The United Kingdom is to send a contingent of 250 troops to Mali next year, to support the UN’s peacekeeping operation in the country, MINUSMA, announced the United Nations. A statement, posted on the UK Ministry of Defense website on Monday, said that the soldiers were being deployed in recognition of increased instability in the […]
UK’s flag carrier British Airways and Germany’s national carrier Lufthansa have temporarily suspended flights to capital Cairo on the ground of serious security concerns. British Airways announced Saturday it was suspending flights to Cairo for seven days as part of evaluation of the security situation at world airports where the airline operates flights to. “The […]
Moroccan parents willing to enroll their children in a foreign education system will soon have the option of British schools which add to already existing French, American, Spanish and Belgian schools. A delegation of British schools is currently prospecting for investment opportunities in education in Morocco which has allowed such schools to operate last May, […]
Morocco and United Kingdom are willing to further deepen their cooperation, particularly in the field of defense industry, which “could be integrated in a mutually beneficial way through sustainable investment and industrial development partnerships”. The two countries’ shared willingness to step up cooperation in this field was voiced on Monday in Rabat by minister […]
CDC Group, the British government’s overseas-investment arm, said it has invested $200 million in Morocco’s BMCE bank, which seeks to develop its activities on the African continent. The British group acquired nearly 5% in the bank’s capital after the investment, part of CDC’s plan to invest $4.5 billion in the African continent, the two institutions […]