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The United States government, through AFRICOM, donated two field hospital systems to Morocco’s Ministry of Health at a ceremony held Friday at the Ministry of Health’s logistics depot in Salé. The first system is a five-bed Intensive Care Unit valued at $960,000 and the second system is a mobile emergency room valued at $700,000. These […]
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman has praised the important strides accomplished by Morocco in recent decades in advancing women’s rights. During her visit to Morocco (March 8-9), the U.S. official, who attended an event in Casablanca to mark International Women’s Day, said Morocco’s new family code made significant reforms to advance equality for […]
The United States commended the reforms launched under the leadership of King Mohammed VI and reiterated support for Morocco in favor of regional peace and stability. Morocco and the US held this Tuesday in Rabat a new session of their strategic dialogue on regional political issue, led by foreign minister Nasser Bourita and Deputy Secretary […]
Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will visit Morocco within the frame of an international tour that will take her to Turkey, Spain, Algeria and Egypt. Sherman starts this Friday her week-long trip with a visit to Istanbul and Ankara, says a press release issued by the U.S. State Department. The Deputy Secretary is expected […]
The U.S. has imposed visa restrictions on a number of Somali officials, including regional leaders, suspected of obstructing the electoral process. This is in response to the missed deadline for the completion of Somalia’s long-delayed elections. The country’s National Consultative Assembly, which is chaired by Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble, has extended the deadline for […]
The US government officially returned a fossilized Moroccan crocodile skull to Morocco in a ceremony held at the Moroccan Embassy in Washington, DC this week. The US Embassy in Rabat announced this Thursday that the Art Crime Team of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has returned the fossilized crocodile skull to the Moroccan Embassy […]
The Biden Administration and the United Nations have reiterated their strong support to the political process seeking a lasting solution to the Sahara regional conflict. The supportive stand was voiced by U.S. top diplomat Anthony Blinken and UN envoy for the Sahara Staffan de Mistura during a meeting held Thursday in Washington. “Secretary Blinken emphasized […]
Morocco continues to enhance its stockpile of vaccines against covid-19 as it prepares to reopen its borders for inbound/outbound commercial flights starting February 7. The North African Kingdom has received over the weekend additional 1.6 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine donated by the United States through Covax program. This new donation of Pfizer doses […]
The Southern zone General Staff of the Royal Armed Forces (FAR) is hosting, from January 24 to 28, 2022, the master planning meeting of the African Lion 2022 exercise, with the participation of representatives of several countries besides Morocco and the United States. The meeting, held pursuant to the instructions of King Mohammed VI, Supreme […]
The restoration project of historic mosaics of the archeological site of Volubilis, an ancient Roman city near Meknes, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, was launched Wednesday in presence of minister of culture Mohamed Mehdi Bensaid and U.S. Chargé d’Affaires, David Greene. Supported by the U.S., the $189,000 project will be carried out by Ifker Association […]