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King Mohammed VI hands awards to top laureates of 2017-2018 literacy Program

King Mohammed VI handed over to top women laureates of the 2017-2018 literacy program the Mohammed VI Prize at a ceremony in a Casablanca mosque following the Friday noon prayers. The prize winners are: Fatema Laâdam (Salé), Yamna Abjaou (Tantan), Mina Esskouri (Nouaceur), Hayat Sennoun (Oujda) and El Hassania Mennouna (Zagora). In an address during […]

Senegal: Senior official dismissed after comments on the conditions of women

Senegalese President Macky Sall has fired a senior official who caused waves by publicly denouncing, on International Women’s Day, as “nonsense” traditions such as the ban on women working or shaking hands with men. The president has “terminated the functions of Mr. Papa Amadou Sarr, Delegate General for Rapid Entrepreneurship of Women and Youth” (DER/FJ), […]

UN Commends Morocco for its Great Presidency of COP22

The Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Patricia Espinosa, on Wednesday commended Morocco for its “great” presidency of the COP22, begun in Marrakech in November 2016. “The Moroccan presidency was great, and we had an incredible partner with whom we delivered together the first session of the Conference of […]