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Morocco, IEA sign joint work program for 2020-2021

Morocco and the International Energy Agency (IEA) vowed to deepen their cooperation in the areas of energy security, renewable energy, energy efficiency, capacity building and data and statistics, under an action program for the period 2020-2021. The joint work program, signed Friday in Paris, aims to meet the specific needs of the Kingdom for transitioning […]

Haiti eager to learn from Morocco’s expertize in agriculture; fertilizers purchase agreement in the pipeline

Haiti is eager to benefit from Morocco’s agricultural expertize and is mulling plans to buy fertilizers from the North African country. According to local media Haiti Libre, these cooperation prospects were reviewed at a recent meeting in Rome between Minister of Agriculture Jobert C. Angrand and Morocco’s ambassador to Italy Hassan Abouyoub, who is a […]

Drought continues to weight on Morocco’s job market

Drought continues to slash jobs in rural areas leading to the surge of the unemployment rate to 13.3% in 2024, compared with 13% in 2023, the statistics agency HCP said. The number of unemployed people in Morocco reached 1.638 million people last year, ringing the alarm bell for the government. The unemployment rate was notably […]