British Ambassador to Morocco Thomas Reilly Concludes Diplomatic Mission

The British ambassador to Rabat was on Thursday, August 6, at the home of Habib El Malki, the president of the House of Representatives of the Moroccan Parliament. The two men have maintained "solid ties of friendship" for years.

Thomas Reilly will be replaced by Simon Martin, "a career diplomat who served as ambassador to Manama, Bahrain, from 2015 to 2019". He will officially take up his duties in Rabat at the beginning of next September, reports maghreb-intelligence.com.

As for the Moroccan ambassador to London, Abdeslam Aboudrar, he will be replaced by Hakim Hajoui, the current chief of staff of Mostafa Terrab, the boss of the Office Chérifien des Phosphates (OCP), the same source indicates.