An Egyptian government report released this week revealed that Egyptian exports to Morocco reached $582.6 million (MAD 5.3 billion) in 2019. Last year Egyptian exports to the Kingdom stood at $ 501.6 million only. The report indicated that most of these exports were animal and plant products, beverages and tobacco, marble, ceramics, chemicals and plastics. The same report said that Egyptian imports from Morocco fell to $ 141 million in 2019, after they were at $ 165.5 million last year. For
Police in Lesotho are investigating claims that former Foreign Minister Lesego Makgothi was «bribed by the Moroccan government to abandon Lesotho’s long-held support for Western Sahara’s right to independence». According to Lesotho Times, sources from the government said this week that Makgothi was «suspected of receiving bribes to unilaterally change Lesotho’s position to that of ‘constructive neutrality on the issue of Western Sahara». The
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has announced that it is loaning Morocco 118 million US dollars to better respond to the Covid-19 health crisis. The loan will be used to improve the health system and extend the intensive care bed capacity to 1,350 by adding 666 new units. It will also help upgrade 78 hospital emergency rooms, purchasing additional screening tests, pharmaceutical products and devices. It is worth saying that Morocco recorded on Wednesday, November 4, the highest number of
Morocco recorded the highest number of daily infections and deaths, with 5,745 cases and 82 passings. In the Casablanca region only 2,478 cases were recorded in the past 24 hours.
Almost one year after the death of its ambassador Bashir Seghir, the Polisario Front appointed, last week, a new head of its representation in South Africa. According to the Front's press agency, Mohamed Yaslem Bissat presented his «credentials to the South African Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary». Received by an official from the South African Foreign Ministry, the representative of the Polisario presented a «full summary of
The opening of diplomatic representations in the Sahara has weakened the argument of the Polisario and Algeria, which claim that no country recognizers Morocco’s sovereignty over the territory.
Meteorites, found in Morocco in 2011 and 2012, have showed evidence of water on Mars 4.4 billion years ago. They showed signs of oxidation which could have occurred as water formed, according to scientists.
The World Bank approved, Wednesday, US$150 million in additional financing for Morocco’s Urban Transport Program, international financial institution said in a press release. Said program, which started in 2015, is meant to «strengthen the country's capacity to offer quality service in public transport». The new financing is granted to Morocco to adapt the program to the new priorities of mobility amid the coronavirus health crisis. «The COVID pandemic has highlighted
The first mosque in Greece has finally opened its doors after 14 years of delays, local media reported on Tuesday. The first prayer at the newly opened mosque was held on Monday with a series of protective measures imposed by the health authorities to avoid the spread of the new coronavirus. An administrative committee, assigned by the Greek government to run the mosque, chose Moroccan-born Zaki Mohammed to be an imam for the new mosque. The latter has been an imam «at one of the five
The United Arab Emirates inaugurated, Wednesday, its new consulate general in the city of Laayoune as promised. The new consulate is the 9th diplomatic representation of a foreign country to open in the Sahara. The inauguration, chaired by Foreign Affairs Minister Nasser Bourita and his Emirati counterpart, comes after Crown Prince Mohamed Ben Zayed announced the decision in a phone call with King Mohammed VI on October 27. In a statement released by the Royal cabinet, it was announced that
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