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The head of U.S. diplomacy Antony Blinken, on Monday, gave strong support to the Moroccan plan for autonomy of the Sahara, calling it “dependable” and “credible.”
After his Africa tour, U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken has met his Moroccan counterpart, Nasser Bourita in a bid to breathe new life into Washington-Rabat ties.
Nearly 250,000 people should benefit in 2022 and 2023, from “Awrach,” a program being finalized to allow young people to enjoy temporary employment, the Minister of Employment, Younes Sekkouri, said on Thursday at the Council of Government.
Morocco’s King Mohammed VI, on Thursday, received in Bouznika (suburb of Rabat), visiting Gabonese President, Ali Bongo Ondimba.
Morocco has lifted a night curfew it introduced in the kingdom to help curb the spread of Covid-19, a statement by the government said.
The production of natural gas in Morocco is expected to increase from 98 million cubic meters in 2020, to more than 110 million cubic meters in 2021, the Minister of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development, Ms. Laila Benali said in a speech to Parliament, adding that “this is a low level, compared to the annual national consumption that now exceeds one billion cubic meters.”
The speech delivered by King Mohammed VI on the occasion of the 46th anniversary of the Green March reflects the strength of the Moroccan commitment and the depth of the arguments and tangible achievements that enshrine the primacy of the Sahara issue as a priority in the Kingdom’s domestic and foreign policies, said Mohamed Bouden, a political scientist and president of the Atlas Center for the analysis of political and institutional indicators.
Accused on several occasions of committing “hostile acts,” Morocco is not ready to give in to Algiers’ provocations. “If Algeria wants war, Morocco does not want it. Morocco will never be drawn into a spiral of violence and regional destabilization,” said an informed Moroccan source in reaction to Algiers’ claim that three of its nationals died in the Sahara, in a bombing blamed on the Moroccan army.
The Minister of Health and Social Protection, Khalid Ait Taleb, said on Tuesday in Rabat, that Morocco was short of less than five million people vaccinated to achieve the expected herd immunity of 80 percent of the population.
Ottawa has authorized the resumption of direct flights linking Morocco to Canada after a two-month suspension.