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Three firefighters die while battling blazes in northern Morocco

Three Moroccan firefighters died in a car accident while on duty countering wildfires in the “Kodiat Tifour” forest, near the city of M’diq, in the country’s north. Their vehicle plunged into a ravine while they were fighting the fire. Two of their colleagues were injured. In a related development, the judicial police brigade of the […]

Amid escalating food crisis, African agriculture is set for fertilizer boom

With an estimated 346 million people across Africa being negatively impacted by a severe food crisis, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a fertilizer boom is breaking out on the continent, even as environmental and green farming activists call for caution. Africa has barely used fertilizers, as only 6% of the continent’s cultivated […]

Morocco makes case for joint AU-EU action benefiting youth

King Mohammed VI made the case for a joint action to gear the African Union and the European Union partnership to serve the youth notably in the fields of education, culture and a win-win management of migration. In a speech read out by foreign minister Nasser Bourita at the AU-EU summit, the King reiterated the […]