Morocco secured election to the vice-presidency of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization Council during the agency’s 179th conference in Rome on Monday. The kingdom will serve on the FAO Council, the organization’s 49-member executive body responsible for overseeing policy implementation and strategic direction, until 2029. This election confirms member states’ confidence in Morocco’s […]
The French Development Agency (AFD) celebrated on Monday, January 31, 2022, in Rabat, 30 years of cooperation with Morocco, a period during which it mobilized €7.6 billion for development projects. During a ceremony, co-chaired by the French ambassador to Morocco, Hélène le Gal, and the director of AFD in the Kingdom, Mihoub Mezouaghi, the French […]
A local Moroccan medical team has discovered a novel gene dreadful for eyesight, as the worst form can cause vision loss. Dubbed “SDR42E”, the gene is the cause of oculocutaneous genital syndrome, a disease that manifests though thinning of the cornea, blue sclera, keratoconus, hyper-elasticity of the skin, joint hypermobility, muscle weakness, hearing loss […]
