Morocco Set To Open Up Medium Voltage PV Market
Utilities Middle East by PV Magazine PV magazine reports that a move to the medium voltage grid will prove a game changer, with most big electricity consumers connected to that network. A panel session at the Africa Energy Forum that concludes today in Lisbon, has...
Algerian Opposition Calls For Opening Borders With Morocco
Middle East Monitor Sheikh Ali Belhadj, second in command of the Islamic Salvation Front, called on Sunday for the opening of the borders between Algeria and Morocco in order to strengthen religion, language, historical and kinship relations between the two nations,...
Morocco: Defending Palestine Is Arab And Islamic Responsibility
Middle East Monitor Head of Moroccan Government Abdelilah Benkirane stressed on Sunday that defending Palestine and Islamic holy sites is the “responsibility of all Arabs and Muslims, not only the Palestinians alone”. Speaking to Quds Press, Benkirane said: “I feel...
A Forgotten Leader Of A Lost Cause
The Economist Middle East and Africa Muhammad Abdelaziz has died, but his people’s grievances still fester. FOR forty years Muhammad Abdelaziz led his exiled people in the wilderness, promising to take them across the 1,600-mile-long Morrocan wall that bisects their...
Western Sahara Independence Movement At Crossroads After Polisario Chief’s Death
Reuters By Patrick Markey and Aziz El Yaakoubi Western Sahara independence chief Mohammed Abdelaziz took his movement through a war and diplomatic struggle, but his death leaves a new leadership facing a tough diplomatic test with a younger generation likely to be...
Royal Canadian Navy’s New Maritime Tactical Operations Group Continues To Grow
Ottawa Citizen David Pugliese, Ottawa Citizen The first class from the Royal Canadian Navy’s Maritime Tactical Operators Course graduated on the east coast a few weeks ago. The graduates will go on to become members of the RCN’s Maritime Tactical Operations Group...
Morocco Says It Thwarted Plot Similar To May 16, 2003 Attacks
LATIFA AL-AROSNI Rabat-Morocco’s authorities have thwarted a “dangerous” terrorist plot similar to the May 16 events that Casablanca witnessed in 2003. The Interior Ministry announced on Friday the arrest of a Chadian national affiliated with ISIS and unraveled a...
Wang Jeunghun Prevails In Morocco Play-Off
RTÉ.ie Korea's Wang Jeunghun claimed his first European Tour title in amazing fashion by beating Spain's Nacho Elvira in a play-off for the Hassan Trophy in Rabat. Wang birdied the 18th to force extra holes and repeated the trick twice in the play-off at Royal Golf...
Sheikha Moza Attends Fez Festival Of World Sacred Music
The Peninsula H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, Chairperson, Qatar Foundation, with H R H Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco at the opening of the 22nd edition of the Fez Festival of World Sacred Music in Morocco, yesterday. (Photo: A R Al-Baker) FEZ: H H Sheikha Moza bint...
WTCC Morocco: Rob Huff Leads Honda 1-2-3 In The Wet
Autosport.com By Jack Cozens @JHCozens Rob Huff led home a Honda 1-2-3 to clinch his second World Touring Car Championship win of the season with a controlled performance in the wet in Marrakech. Rain before the start threatened to wreak havoc and the intensity meant...