During an exercise at sea on January 20, trainee commando sailors of the Royal Navy were swept away by strong sea currents. The incident took place off Ksar Sghir, said a military source on Friday.
Morocco has recently acquired the Patriot air defense system from the United States, the U.S. Agency for International Trade said in a recent note on the Moroccan aerospace sector. This is the medium-range surface-to-air missile defense system against all air threats.
The Algerian army has organized military exercises on the Moroccan border, more precisely in Tindouf .
Noureddine Ayouch, who sparked a heated controversy nearly two years ago when he called for making Darija the language of instruction, is back on the offensive. The advertising professional and community activist calls for working on "establishing a bridge between classical Arabic and Darija", by integrating words from the first language into the second, so that everyone can speak them easily.
The military cooperation between Morocco and the United States of America is a concern for the two countries. This is the context in which the three-day working visit to Rabat of the US Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Political Affairs, Anthony Tata, at the head of a large military delegation, takes place.
Morocco is fighting to be the best militarily equipped country in Africa. Supported by Washington, the kingdom is preparing to acquire a host of military equipment.
A high-level meeting was held on Tuesday in Rabat between Abdeltif Loudyi, Minister Delegate to the Head of Government in charge of the National Defense Administration, and Anthony Tata, US Under Secretary of Defense for Political Affairs, on a three-day working visit to the kingdom. The two officials discussed Moroccan-American military cooperation.
The partnership between the US Marine Corps and the Moroccan Royal Navy is very positive. But new prospects are to be considered for more results.
Mauritania has decided to strengthen its military presence on the border with Morocco to prevent any possible incursion by the Polisario into its territory.
The Royal Moroccan Navy has just placed an order for a state-of-the-art patrol vessel with the Spanish company Navantia. It is a combat, defense, reconnaissance, coastal surveillance and high seas patrol ship.
For a long time, Morocco and Spain have been monitoring each other mutually. Now they are doing it from the sky, via satellites. While Morocco uses its two satellites "Mohamed VI-A" and "Mohamed VI-B", Spain is relying on France to use the new "CSO-2" satellite.
The persistent information that the United States would be about to build a military base in the Sahara has been denied by the Head of Government. However, an agreement in principle would already have been concluded between Morocco and the United States for the transfer of the American base in Rota, Spain, to Morocco.