Morocco

RABAT, Jun 6 (NNN-MAP) – Morocco and the United States will hold a joint military drill, with the participation of other foreign troops, from tomorrow, June 7-18, in several regions in Morocco.

The 17th edition of the annual military exercises named “African Lion” will be joined by troops from Britain, Brazil, Canada, Tunisia, Senegal, the Netherlands, and Italy, and observers from 30 countries, according to a statement reported yesterday by the General Staff of Moroccan Royal Armed Forces (FAR).

RABAT, Jun 5 (NNN-MAP) – Moroccan Foreign Minister, Nasser Bourita, met yesterday, with two visiting Libyan rivalling speakers, as “part of Morocco’s mediation efforts, to contribute to the settlement of the Libyan crisis,” said a ministry statement.

Aguila Saleh Issa, speaker of the Libyan House of Representatives, and Khaled al-Michiri, president of the Libyan High Council of State, arrived in Morocco on Thursday. It wasn’t clear whether Saleh Issa and al-Michiri had held direct talks in Morocco.

RABAT, Jun 2 (NNN-MAP) – Moroccan King, Mohammed VI, yesterday, ordered his government to work with Spain, France and the European Union (EU), to solve the ongoing migrants crisis in Ceuta, a Spanish enclave that borders Morocco.

Morocco made agreements with France and Spain, clearing the hurdles for the return of dozens of underage Moroccans, who entered Ceuta illegally last month, said a joint statement released by Moroccan foreign and interior ministries.

01 June 2021; MEMO: A number of Moroccans in the capital, Rabat, have refused to rent their properties to Israel's Chargé d'Affaires, David Govrin, forcing him to stay in a hotel since his appointment to the country, Anadolu reported.

RABAT, May 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Around 300 inmates at Al Arjat 1 prison in Sale, a city about 15 kilometers from Rabat, were given a COVID-19 vaccination on Wednesday as part of authorities’ attempts to curb the spread of the virus in Morocco.

According to the General Delegation for Prison Administration (DGAPR) and the Health Ministry, at least 12,000 of the 85,000 prisoners in the North African country have been vaccinated since the national campaign began in January.

All the staff working for DGAPR have received their jab.

FNIDEQ, Morocco (AP) — They are desperate teenagers and jobless men. They come from Morocco’s coastal towns, its mountainous east or even farther away — from sub-Saharan Africa. And they all converged on the border town of Fnideq this week, part of an extraordinary mass effort to swim or scale barbed-wire fences to get into Spain for a chance at a new life.

More than 8,000 migrants actually made it into the city of Ceuta, an enclave in North Africa that is separated from the rest of Spain by the Mediterranean — but for most of them, it was a short-lived success.

06 May 2021; MEMO: A woman from Mali yesterday gave birth to nine babies in Morocco. "All nine babies are doing well," the Ministry of Health of Mali said in a statement.

Twenty-five-year-old Halima Cisse flew to Morocco on 30 March, seeking medical care. She was initially believed to have been carrying seven babies.

30 Apr 2021; MEMO: Morocco's Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita intends to participate in a conference organised by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on 6 May. It is a step interpreted as an attempt to win the support of the pro-Israel lobby in America following the Biden administration's adoption of an ambiguous position over Western Sahara.

30 Apr 2021; MEMO: Morocco has decided to grant political asylum to the former leader of the Catalonia region, Carles Puigdemont, in a new and provocative move against Spain, which recently allowed the Sahrawi President Brahim Ghali to enter its territory. Puigdemont is accused by the Spanish authorities of provoking discord after his attempt to secede Catalonia from Spain in 2017.

RABAT, April 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Morocco summoned the Spanish ambassador in “exasperation” after the leader of the Western Saharan independence movement was allowed into Spain for medical care.

The Spanish foreign ministry said Thursday that Brahim Ghali, who heads the Algeria-backed Polisario Front, is being treated for Covid-19 and had been transferred to Spain for “strictly humanitarian reasons”.

“This will not obstruct or trouble the excellent relations Spain has with Morocco,” Spanish foreign minister Arancha Gonzalez Laya said at a press conference Friday.