Maroc - Turquie : El Otmani reçoit le porte-parole de la Présidence turque

Le Chef du gouvernement, Saâdeddine El Othmani, a eu des entretiens, vendredi à Rabat, avec le Conseiller, porte-parole de la Présidence turque, Ibrahim Kalin. Le responsable turc, en visite au Maroc, a été reçu auparavant par le ministre des Affaires étrangères et de la Coopération internationale, Nasser Bourita. Lors de cette entrevue, M. Kalin a remis à M. Bourita un message du président turc, Recep Tayyip

Maroc : L'ONCF propose un plan spécial retour des vacances d'hiver

L'Office national des chemins de fer (ONCF) a annoncé, vendredi, avoir mis en place un plan de transport spécial à l'occasion des retours des vacances d'hiver marquant la fin du 1er semestre 2018/2019. L'idée est d'assurer les déplacements des passagers dans de bonnes conditions de sécurité et de confort, indique l'Office dans un communiqué. Pour répondre aux besoins de déplacement de ses voyageurs, surtout durant

Morocco informs UNSG and SC of the adoption of Morocco-EU agriculture agreement

Morocco’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Omar Hilale, sent on Thursday letters to the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, and to the members of the Security Council, to inform them that «the European Parliament adopted, on January 16, 2019, in Strasbourg, the Exchange of Letters on the Agriculture Agreement between Morocco and the European Union (EU)». This adoption was preceded by several votes «largely favourable at the different bodies of the EU

A Moroccan national assaults a border guard after he was denied entry to Ukraine

A Moroccan national assaulted a border guard at the Kyiv Boryspil International Airport after he was refused entry to Ukraine, reports Ukrainian press agency UNIAN on Friday. The man was enraged after he was told that he cannot enter the Ukrainian territory, the same source said, quoting a border control report. According to UNIAN, the Moroccan told border guards that he is staying in Ukraine as part of an exchange program and that he would be teaching English and another language. However, a

The Polisario sees its participation in the AU-EU meeting as a «victory»

Angered by the fact that the European Parliament voted in favor of the EU-Morocco association agreement, the Polisario Front believes that attending the meeting of the foreign ministers of the African Union and the European Union in Brussels was a «victory». The Front’s «Foreign Minister» Mohamed Salem Ould Salek stated, Thursday, that the international presence in «this ministerial meeting has shown that attempts to exterminate the Saharwi people were

Hicham El Habti replaces OCP’s secretary general Mohamed El Kadiri on an interim basis

While rumors about his departure had been circulating for weeks, it seems that Mohamed El Kadiri, «the kingpin of OCP’s industrial transformation» has indeed left the world’s leading exporter of phosphate rock, phosphoric acid and phosphate fertilizers. French-language online newspaper Le Desk, quoting Maghreb Confidentiel, reported that OCP’s deputy secretary general Hicham El Habti «has been appointed to replace secretary general Mohamed El Kadiri on an

Tétouan : La DGSN donne plus de précisions sur le décès d’un Marocain en garde à vue

Une personne, qui était placée sous surveillance médicale sur fond de son implication dans des affaires de drogue, est décédée jeudi après-midi, apprend-t-on auprès de la préfecture de police de Tétouan. Le défunt (51 ans), qui s'est présenté jeudi après-midi au centre des cartes d'identité à Tétouan pour renouveler sa carte biométrique, faisait l'objet de deux avis de

A Tunisian NGO angered by a Moroccan helicopter spotted in Tozeur

The Tunisian Human Rights League has protested against a foreign helicopter that, reportedly, flew over Djerid, a region in South Western Tunisia. According to several Tunisian newspapers, the country’s Ministry of Defense said Thursday, in a statement made public by radio Mosaique FM, that the «foreign helicopter spotted in Tozeur is Moroccan» and that it «landed at the airport after receiving a go-ahead from the authorities and the Ministry of

Casablanca : Un institut d'enseignement privé fermé faute d'autorisation

Les autorités locales de Casablanca ont procédé à la fermeture d'un institut privé et ses annexes car il ne dispose pas des autorisations requises délivrées par le département de tutelle, a annoncé le ministère de l'Education nationale, de la formation professionnelle, de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche scientifique. Dans un communiqué, le ministère a souligné que la fermeture de

Moroccan authorities reject the conclusions of Human Rights Watch's 2019 report

The Moroccan authorities have expressed their total rejection of the political positions and erroneous allegations and conclusions in the section on Morocco of the 2019 Human Rights Watch (HRW) report on the status of human rights around the world. These political positions and erroneous allegations and conclusions will receive a detailed response in the weeks to come, said the Inter-ministerial Delegation for Human Rights (DIDH) in a statement on Thursday. The Moroccan authorities have