Morocco will receive in 2021 the country’s first F16 Viper fighter jet, a single-engine supersonic multirole fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics for the United States Air Force. According to French-language online newspaper Le360, these new fighter jets were ordered by the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces from the American aerospace and defense company Lockheed Martin. «Morocco was one of the first African countries to express interest in acquiring a number of F16
The next extraordinary African Union summit will be held in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) on the 17th and 18th of November. The meeting will be exclusively devoted to the reforms introduced to better the work of the continental organization. This important project is led by Rwandan President Paul Kagame, the current chairperson of the African Union. This change is well perceived by Morocco which is in favor of reforming the Union’s Constitutive Act. While waiting for this meeting, the
Le groupe marocain Intelcia, opérant dans l'externalisation des métiers de la relation client, projette de doubler ses effectifs à 600 collaborateurs en 2019 dans ce pays, apprend-on auprès du groupe. Comptant une trentaine d'employés au lancement de ses activités en Côte d'Ivoire il y a une année, Intelcia a décuplé ses effectifs en 2018 et se fixe désormais l'objectif de les porter à 600 au cours de
Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani received, on Monday in Doha, Abdellatif Hammouchi, director-general of national police and of national territory surveillance, who is on a visit to Qatar to take part in the 12th international event for homeland security and civil defence in the Middle East "Milipol Qatar 2018". The audience took place in the presence of Qatar's prime minister and interior minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Nasser Bin Khalifa Al Thani, who has met earlier in the day
La première ombrière de recharge de véhicules électriques à l'énergie solaire est en phase d'installation à Rabat, indique l’Institut marocain de recherche en énergie solaire et énergies nouvelles (IRESEN). Initié par l’IRESEN, ce projet découle d’un programme de recherche et de développement traitant de la mobilité durable que l'institut mène depuis plus de 4 ans, en vue de
The Royal Navy assisted, on the 27th and 28th of October, 397 migrants who were carried by several boats in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, a military source told MAP news agency. 382 migrants, in total, were brought to the ports of Tangier, Al Hoceima and M’Diq, while 15 others were rescued on Monday near Moulay Bousselham and were transported to the port of Casablanca. The boat that was carrying the last group of migrants, broke down, says the same source.
La Marine Royale a porté assistance, durant les journées du 27 et 28 et la matinée du 29 octobre, à 397 candidats à la migration illégale qui étaient à bord de plusieurs embarcations de fortune en difficultés en Méditerranée et en Atlantique, apprend-on de source militaire. Sur ce total, 382 clandestins ont été ramenés sains et saufs aux ports de Tanger, d'Al Hoceima et de M’Diq, alors que
Neuf personnes ont été blessées dans l'attentat suicide qui a eu lieu lundi après-midi au centre-ville de Tunis, a affirmé le porte-parole du ministère tunisien de l'Intérieur, Sofiène Zaâg. «Huit policiers et un civil ont été blessés à la suite de cet acte suicidaire», a précisé la même source dans des déclarations à la presse. Le porte-parole a
Spanish Foreign Affairs Minister Josep Borrell and his Moroccan counterpart Nasser Bourita have agreed to improve cooperation when it comes to the migration crisis, referring to Morocco and Spain’s «shared responsibility», says Europa Press. Josep Borrell participated in the World Policy Conference, held from the 26th to the 28th of October in Rabat, to discuss the main challenges of the international community. During his stay in Morocco, Borrell met on Saturday his Moroccan
On April, 2019, Royal Air Maroc (RAM) is launching three new routes linking Casablanca to three major capitals : Amman (Jordan), Abuja (Nijeria) and Vienna (Austria). According to a communiqué sent by RAM to Yabiladi on Monday, these three routes will be operational three times a week. The flight linking Casablanca to Vienna will be scheduled on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 11 am. Flights from Vienna to Casablanca will be at 3:40 pm. The company is also strengthening its network in