For many years, Africa has coveted the World Cup without succeeding. For the coach of the Moroccan national football team , efforts are being made for an African team to lift the trophy, but this will not be possible in the immediate future.
The sanctions taken by the West against Russia, in particular the exclusion from the SWIFT financial system, could have a negative impact on arms sales to Morocco and other African countries that import Russian military equipment.
Marrakech is among the 10 best places to visit in Africa in 2022. Cairo is also in this ranking.
Hailing the cooperation and coordination with the Royal Armed Forces (FAR) over the past year, the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) says it wants to strengthen cooperation with its African partners, including Morocco.
While Morocco has suspended all direct passenger flights to the kingdom for a period of two weeks due to the rapid spread of the new variant of the Covid-19 virus — Omicron (B.1.1.529), particularly in Europe and Africa, Fatim-Zahra Ammor, Minister of Tourism, is multiplying international trips and returning to the country by normal means. This has sparked criticism.
The conference that the Pan-Africanist Kemi Seba was to lead at Mohamed V University in Rabat has been canceled. In a video posted on his Instagram account, the Beninese activist disapproved of and condemned this cancellation, which according to his words, occurred under pressure from the authorities.
French President Emmanuel Macron was in open dialogue last Friday with eleven young Africans from Morocco, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, or Mali, during the new-format Africa-France summit held in Montpellier, to which no African state was invited. On this occasion, he paid tribute to dual nationals.
At a time when the whole world is concerned about the events in Afghanistan, the American debacle, the actions of Islamist terrorist groups operating everywhere, in Asia, Africa, Europe, Manuel Valls affirms that there is "at least one reason to hope in the Arab-Muslim world". He is betting on Morocco which is organizing legislative, municipal and regional elections on September 8, playing a strategic role in the Mediterranean and Africa, which Europe needs.
BioNTech, a German biotechnology company specializing in the development and manufacture of active immunotherapies in the treatment of serious diseases, is betting on Africa to boost its production. In this sense, it plans to open a factory in one of the following five countries: Morocco , Egypt, South Africa, Tunisia or Senegal.
Franco-Senegalese Mountaga Diop, founder of the Kirikou association, discusses the situation of women from Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Congo or Guinea who become mothers during their migration to Morocco.
Morocco is now France’s top customer in Africa in terms of arms acquisitions, dethroning Algeria. This emerges from the annual report on arms exports in 2020 that the French Ministry of the Armed Forces sent to Parliament.
The European Parliament adopted on Thursday, June 10, "a resolution on the violation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the instrumentalization of minors by the Moroccan authorities in the migration crisis in Ceuta ". This is enough to undermine its relations with "one of its best partners in Africa".