The two top diplomats stressed their keenness to continue joint action that brings together Amman and Pristina.

Morocco and the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) have signed the pact on the partial funding of the second phase of the Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline (NMGP) project's Front End Engineering Study (FEED). "Through an exchange of correspondence with OFID Director-General Abdulhamid Al Khalifa and with Amina Benkhadra, Director-General of...

Gas giant Algeria threatened Wednesday to break a contract to supply gas to Spain if Madrid transferred it onwards to "a third destination", amid tensions with regional rival Morocco. Algeria's state-owned energy giant Sonatrach supplied more than 40 percent of Madrid's natural gas imports in 2021.

Soaring fuel prices in Morocco have placed billionaire petrol magnate Aziz Akhannouch -- who is also prime minister -- at the heart of a reignited debate about the conflict between business and politics. For the first time since the war in Ukraine led to a global jump in crude prices,...

"Morocco, Land of Light" aims to position Morocco among the most coveted global tourist destinations and strengthen its attractiveness to the international public.

These solar projects in Morocco were part of a large international tender.

Morocco's official reserve assets amounted to 329.1 billion ($33.39 billion) Dirhams on 1 April 2022, up by 8.2 percent compared to the same period in 2021, Morocco's central bank (Bank Al-Maghrib) has said. During the week of April 7-13, 2022, the Dirham depreciated by 1.06 percent against the US Dollar...

"Growth in Morocco is projected to slow to 1.1 percent in 2022, as agricultural output declines by 17.3 percent due to the drought,” the WB said in its latest MENA Economic News Bulletin.

Maritime traffic between Spain and Morocco is set to resume Tuesday following the normalization of diplomatic relations between the two countries, Rabat's transport ministry said. Embroiled in a dispute with Spain over the territory of Western Sahara, Morocco upheld the blockade between some of the largest ports on the Mediterranean...

Spain on March 18 said it had agreed to publicly recognize Rabat's autonomy plan — a longtime demand from Morocco — for the territory, ending a decades-long stance of neutrality.

Countries like the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Oman appear on track to take giant strides in diversifying their portfolios when it comes to power generation.

The move came after Madrid reversed decades of neutrality on the Western Sahara conflict in a U-turn that has angered Algeria.

Moroccan police have arrested four people suspected of involvement in an international drug and organ trafficking network operating in particular between Morocco and Turkey, a security source said Tuesday.

Earlier this month, Spain dramatically reversed decades of policy, backing Rabat’s 2007 ‘autonomy’ plan in what Moroccans hailed as a ‘diplomatic coup’.

Blinken also said he was "encouraging partners to speak out against Russian aggression" and said he doubted Russia's "seriousness" in talks with Ukraine held in Turkey.

Blinken flew in from Israel, where he joined a historic meeting of fellow top diplomats from the Jewish state, UAE, Morocco, Bahrain and Egypt.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and four top Arab diplomats arrived Sunday in southern Israel for a "historic" meeting marking a thawing of relations between the Jewish state and several regional neighbours. The meeting also takes place as the United States and European allies express quiet frustration that Middle...

Analysts have said that "most" of the parties to Friday's meeting in Jordan are "historic allies and friends of Washington but are linked to Moscow."

Israel said it will host a "historic summit" from Sunday of top diplomats from the United States and three Arab states with which it has normalized ties. A series of diplomatic meetings would be attended by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his counterparts from the UAE, Bahrain and...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Israel, the West Bank, Morocco, and Algeria over March 26-30 to discuss the Ukraine war, Israeli-Palestinian relations, the Iran nuclear deal, and gas from Algeria, among other things, the US State Department has announced.

The package, reached after weeks of pressure including a nationwide strike by truckers demanding price controls, covers 180,000 vehicles

Morocco's industry minister and state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries signed a memorandum of understanding on Wednesday in Rabat on aerospace cooperation, another sign of growing collaboration between the two countries. The agreement is "an additional step in creating a new partnership between IAI and the aviation and space industries in Morocco",...

As Morocco withers under its worst drought in 40 years, experts warn that a combination of climate change and bad resource management could trigger severe drinking water shortages.

Four of the six GCC members feature within the top 50 of the World Happiness Report, and are atop the rankings among the Arab countries.

Israel is to launch direct flights to Sharm el-Sheikh on Egypt's Red Sea coast next month, in an expansion of air links between the two countries, officials said Wednesday. "The route from Ben Gurion International Airport to Sharm el-Sheikh will open soon. Flights are expected to begin during the intermediate...

The Moroccan government faced weeks of pressure over rising prices, in a country heavily dependent on imports of energy and cereals.

Fights frequently break out between fans of the country's two top Casablanca clubs, Wydad and Raja.

The European Union said this week it wanted to bolster cooperation with Morocco to stem the flow of illegal migrants entering the bloc.

Royal Air Maroc took off from Morocco's economic capital Casablanca bound for Tel Aviv on Sunday, in the carrier's first direct flight to the Jewish state since the two countries normalized ties in 2020. Aviation sources and local media sources said a Moroccan business delegation was on the inaugural flight,...

The residential complex is located in Bir Al-Souk in Morocco.

Tunisia, Morocco, and Libya, along with several other Arab countries, import much of their wheat from Ukraine and Russia.

Moroccan truck drivers are observing a three-day strike in protest at spiraling fuel costs, a union said Tuesday, as oil prices spike over Russia's war in Ukraine.

Rights groups say that marriage of girl child is widespread in remote, landlocked and marginalised areas in the country.

More than 10,000 Arab students have also attended university in Ukraine, drawn to the former Soviet republic by its low cost of living.

The Director-General of ICESCO Salim bin Mohammed Al-Malik met with Ambassador of Qatar to Morocco Sheikh Abdullah bin Thamer

Fitch Ratings has upgraded to AA(mar)/Stable the rating of Morocco’s Attijariwafa Bank (AWB), one of the five Moroccan banks whose peer review was recently completed by the ratings agency and which account for approximately 77 percent of Morocco's banking system assets. AWB’s rating reflects the bank's extended record of resilient...

The minister is visiting Rabat, economic capital Casablanca, and tourist hub Marrakesh as well.

This remarkable performance was recorded in the three segments of fisheries: artisanal fishing, coastal fishing and deep-sea fishing.

Morocco said Wednesday it will launch a nearly $1 billion aid program to help its agriculture industry, which has been hit hard by a particularly acute drought in recent years. The emergency plan "aims to mitigate the effects of delay in rainfall, to alleviate the impact on agricultural activity and...

The agreement was signed on Wednesday in Rabat by Morocco's Minister of Energy Leila Benali, and Finland's Minister of Economic Affairs, Mika Tapani Lintilä.

Saudi Arabia has said it filled and fortified thousands of abandoned wells across the country, after the tragic death of a boy in Morocco following failed rescue efforts. Five-year-old Rayan, who spent five days trapped down a well, was laid to rest on Monday in his village.

Morocco reopened its airspace on Monday in a bid to breathe life into its crisis-hit tourism sector, two months after it cancelled commercial flights over coronavirus fears. The North African kingdom's latest move was welcomed by tourism businesses who have suffered two lost years due to the pandemic, as well...

Through the days-long operation to extricate little Rayan Oram from the bottom of the 32-meter (100-foot) well shaft near the village of Ighrane in the Rif mountains of northern Morocco, authorities had cautioned that they did not know whether the child was dead or alive.

Only 27 theatres in Morocco remain open, relying heavily on state funding for renovations and digitizing films.

The annual meetings set to take place in Morocco will be held in Washington.

Algeria's special envoy for the Western Sahara on Sunday accused Morocco of "assassinations targeting civilians" outside its "internationally recognized borders", following a recent drone attack in the disputed territory, state media reported. Moroccan authorities "carry out acts of war... and commit extrajudicial assassinations targeting civilians" in the Western Sahara, Amar...

The rise in international raw material prices has increased subsidy spending in Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.

Moroccan ports have recorded a significant evolution of overall port traffic, which has risen from 172.1 million tons in 2020 to 192.1 million tons in 2021, an increase of 11.6 percent. According to a statement by the Ministry of Equipment and Water, domestic traffic recorded a volume of 111.5 million...

Home to 36 million inhabitants, Morocco is hoping that its vaccination drive will help eradicate Covid-19. More than 23 million people have already received a second dose against coronavirus, according to the health ministry. Authorities hope to vaccinate 80 percent of the population with either Sinopharm or Pfizer-BioNTech.

A government statement published by the country's official MAP news agency said that the ban would end on February 7.