EU Says Accords With Morocco In Line With International Law
Reuters by Aziz El Yaakoubi The European Union's senior diplomat said on Friday the union disagrees with a court ruling invalidating its farm trade deal with Morocco and the accords with Rabat do not violate international law. The EU has appealed a European Court...
U.N. Chief Ban Wants To Revive Talks To End Western Sahara Conflict
Reuters by Patrick Markey ALGIERS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has said he will try to restart negotiations between Western Sahara's Polisario independence movement and Morocco to resolve their conflict and allow Sahrawi refugees to return. The...
Foreign Policy Chief Heads To Morocco After Ties Suspended
Middle East Eye #Diplomacy AFP Morocco broke ties after a ruling by the EU Court of Justice that a farm trade deal was illegal because it included the disputed Western Sahara. The European Union's foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini will head to Rabat for talks on...
Mauritania Must Help Progress In Western Sahara Dispute: Ban
AFP Yahoo News Nouakchott (AFP) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called Friday for Mauritania's help in a territorial dispute between Morocco and a Western Sahara separatist group that has displaced tens of thousands in decades of fighting. "Making progress on the...
Morocco: Suspension Of Agreement, EU Provides Assurances
ENPI INFO CENTRE The EU reacted quickly at midday on Friday 26 February 2016 to a Moroccan decision from the previous day to “suspend all contact with European institutions, with the exception of planned exchanges” following a judgment by the EU General Court which,...
Elite Track Meet Leaving New York For Morocco
The Wall Street Journal Sports The Adidas Grand Prix, a world-class track meet held at Icahn Stadium on Randall’s Island each June, will leave the city and move to Morocco.
ANALYSIS: Morocco’s Shining Example Of Clean Energy
Middle East Eye Kieran Cooke #InsideMorocco State's Noor solar plant could power the drive for a network of similar projects to produce plentiful energy for a growing region. For years solar engineers have dreamed of establishing a network of solar power stations...
Morocco: One Of World’s Oldest Libraries Re-opens In Fez
ANSAmed The al-Qarawiyyin library in the city of Fez will re-open in May. It took four years to restore one of the oldest cultural centres in the world. Founded in 859 by a woman, it became immediately a reference point for scholars from all over the world but as it...
Morocco Prays To Save Wheat Fields After Catastrophic Drought
Bloomberg Rudy Ruitenberg Celeste Hicks Wheat crop may fall more than 50% from last year, survey shows. `Harvest is going to be catastrophic,' grain farmer warns. Morocco’s drought has probably wiped out half of its wheat harvest -- devastating a country where even...
MEBAA’s Morocco Show Is Moving To Marrakesh
BUSINESS AVIATION by Samantha Cartaino The Middle East and North Africa Business Aviation Association (MEBAA) is moving its MEBAA Show Morocco to Marrakesh Menara Airport, with the next event now set for September 12-13, 2017. The show was launched in 2015 in the...