A Moroccan Royal Armed Forces delegation visits NATO’s headquarters in Belgium

A high delegation of military officers from the Moroccan Royal Armed Forces was received, earlier this week, by NATO’s Political Affairs and Security Policy Division in Belgium. The visit is the first of its king, the intergovernmental military alliance said in a communiqué. The meeting, conducted under the framework of NATO’s public diplomacy activities with Morocco, was attended by Nicola de Santis, Head of the Middle East and North Africa Section at NATO and Major

Morocco’s Higher Institute of Maritime Studies signs a MOU with a Swedish university

Malmo-based War Maritime University (WMU) signed on June 14 a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Morocco’s Higher Institute of Maritime Studies (ISEM) to collaborate on maritime training and capacity building for the international and Moroccan maritime community, the Swedish university announced on its website this week. The MOU was signed in Casablanca by the President of WMU Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry ISEMS’ director Mohamed Briouig. According to Doumbia-Henry the «MOU

Denmark’s FLSmidth to deliver a cement plant in Morocco

Danish engineering company FLSmidth and Morocco’s Société Générale des Travaux du Maroc (SGTM) signed, Wednesday, a contract with TEKCIM S.A., a subsidiary of SGTM, to co-deliver a cement plant, said the Copenhagen-based firm in a communiqué published on its official website. The plant will be built in Oulad Ghanem, a small town near the city of El Jadida. It is expected to have a daily capacity of 3,600 tons. The contract, awarded for 335 million DKK

Egypt's football federation apologizes after cropping Morocco's map in an Afcon music video

Egypt, which hosts the 32nd edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, released a music video that cropped Morocco's map. The Egyptian federation was quick to react to the wave of anger, apologizing to the Kingdom and removing the video from Youtube.

Days before Afcon 2019, Morocco replaces Abderrazak Hamdallah and Manuel Da Costa

The Confederation of African Football has given the go-ahead to the Royal Moroccan Football Federation to replace Abderrazak Hamdallah, who picked up an injury, by Moroccan championship player Abdelkrim Baadi. Meanwhile, Achraf Dari joined the Atlas Lions in Egypt, replacing Manuel Da Costa.

The Polisario continues arresting Sahrawi activists in the Tindouf camps

The Polisario Front has arrested another Sahrawi activist in the camps, Spanish news agency Europa Press. The arrest is part of a campaign launched by the movement to silence its opponents in Tindouf. After abducting Moulay Abba Bouzid and Fadel Brika, two members of opposition group the Sahrawi Initiative for Change (SIC), the Polisario arrested Sahrawi blogger and activist Mahmud Zedan. Speaking to the leader of Sahrawi opposition movement Khat Achahid (the Martyr’s Line) Mahjoub

A Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously adopts the Morocco-EU fisheries agreement

As expected, the House of Representatives’ Committee of Foreign Affairs, National Defense, Islamic Affairs and Moroccans Living Abroad discussed, Wednesday, the EU-Morocco fisheries agreement, which includes the Sahara’s waters. The agreement was unanimously adopted on the same day. On Tuesday, June 25, the deal will be voted in a plenary session at the house of councilors. On Tuesday, June 18, the Spanish Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture Luis Planas said in Luxembourg that

22 migrants die off Morocco while trying to reach Spain

22 migrants died and 27 others were rescued by a Spanish passenger ferry off Morocco, German news agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur reports. The rescued migrants, who were found adrift in the Mediterranean Sea, said that 22 people who were with them when they embarked in Morocco died and «were thrown in to the water». Quoting Spanish newspaper El Pais, the press agency wrote that the passenger ferry rescued the migrants on Wednesday, while travelling from Melilla to Motril, a

Ceuta : A Moroccan carrier dies of a heart attack

A 69-year-old Moroccan national died of a heart attack yesterday morning, while transporting goods from Ceuta to Morocco, says Spanish newspaper El Faro de Ceuta. Originally from Fnideq, he was found dead by a Moroccan agent, who noticed that he had not joined a group of carriers. The news spread like wildfire among his fellow carriers. The man was living off the money he used to make from carrying goods between Morocco and Spain in spite of his health problems, the newspaper concluded.

Migrants stranded for weeks off Tunisia were finally allowed to enter the country

Tunisian authorities in the city of Zarzis, southeastern Tunisia, have finally accepted to receive a rescue boat carrying 75 migrants, including a Moroccan national, that has been stranded off the country for three weeks, the Red Crescent told Reuters on Wednesday. These migrants were rescued by an Egyptian boat in the Tunisian waters. The boat, which was stranded 25 km from the coastal city of Zarzis, was not allowed to disembark after migrants were told that the city’s