The US Department of State announced, Monday, in a press release that its Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs is expected to tour Africa from February 4 to 13. David Hale will visit Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Mauritania and Niger. The American diplomat will discuss with the leaders of these countries ways of fighting against terrorism in the Sahel region. In Mali, a senior official from the French Foreign Ministry, Philippe Errera, will attend the meeting that is expected to
Morocco is ranked 56th in the Global Firepower military strength index for 2020. Ranked third in North Africa and seventh in the Arab World, the Kingdom had improved its rating in the annual report.
Several NGOs, political organizations and trade unions have called for a national march to denounce the American «peace plan» for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, also known as the «Deal of the century». The march is scheduled for February 9 in Rabat. In a recent statement, the National Action Group for Palestine said that this march is in response to the American initiative, which aims «to conserve the occupation of Palestine by making Al-Quds the capital of the
Dutch state-owned company Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) denied a claim the leader of Forum for Democracy (FvD) posed on social media about female passengers «harassed by four Moroccans on a train» Friday, NL Times reports. The company said that the four «Moroccans» were its employees accompanied by a police officer who were checking the two women’s tickets, it added, quoting Dutch broadcaster NOS. NS’ response came after Thierry Baudet, who has been
Moroccan students in Wuhan have finally been able to return to their country this weekend. The 167 Moroccans are currently held in two military hospitals in a quarantine that is expected to last for 20 days.
The Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy (Masen) has launched a call for pre-qualification for the construction of a 400-MW solar photovoltaic (PV) park, Renewables Now reports. Quoting the agency, the same newspaper said that a call for expressions of interest (Eols) has been issued last week to attract interested developers who want to submit their bids before 28 February. The tender launched by Masen is about the first phase of the Noor PV II project expected to see the
Police in London shot a man to death, Sunday, after he stabbed several people in Streatham, a busy residential suburb in the city, AFP reports. Three people were injured, with one person in «a life-threatening condition», wrote the BBC on Monday. The attacker had a hoax device strapped to his body during the attack, the same source added. «He was under active police surveillance at the time of the attack, which police believe to be an Islamist-related terrorist
He is the man behind the delicacies of California’s new «place to be» restaurant Tagine Beverly Hills. Chef Ben, or Abdessamad Benameur, is a self-taught, spontaneous and full of love and energy Moroccan man who brought the secrets of the Moroccan cuisine to Beverly Hills.
100 Moroccans living in China who had announced earlier in January that they wanted to return to Morocco amid the coronavirus health crisis will be repatriated, Saturday. According to French-language newspaper Medias24, the plane took off from Casablanca on Friday and it is expected to land in Wuhan after stopovers in Moscow and Beijing. The same plane is expected to land in Meknes via Novosibirsk and Moscow. According to the same source, nationals repatriated following royal instructions
Recognizing the so-called «SADR» since 1982, Mauritius, which sent a team to Laayoune to participate to the 2020 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations, withdrew from the competition under the pressure of its government.