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The Mohammed V University of Rabat won five gold medals and 13 innovation masters at the World Creativity & Innovation Week “IWA 2023”, held online last week in Las Vegas. The awards were presented to Professor Hassan Ammor, director of the Mohammadia School of Engineering (EMI) and his team, made up of Samiya Qanoune, Zakaria […]
Junior Budget Minister, Fouzi Lekjaa, announced that the emergency aid to the families affected by Al Haouz earthquake will be paid by the end of September. An agreement on extending the aid to the targeted population was signed between the ministerial departments concerned and la Caisse de Dépôt et de Gestion (CDG), said Lekjaa who […]
The development of Moroccan-German cooperation was the focus of a seminar held in Berlin on Friday by the German-Moroccan Skills Network “DMK”. The meeting, placed under the theme “Strategic dialogue to promote development cooperation”, was held as part of the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the signing of the cooperation agreement between Morocco and […]
Among about 150 heads of state and government from around the world, dozens of African leaders have delivered speeches at the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, addressing global and continental issues ranging from sustainable development to reparations for slavery to pledges to hold free and credible elections. The […]
Morocco’s private investment fund Al Mada and China’s CNGR Advanced Materials said they will partner to build an electric vehicle battery plant in Jorf Lasfar worth 2 billion dollars. The two parties announced in a joint statement that construction will start this year for the plant that is planned to be operational in 2025. Local […]
The annual Africa Open for Business Summit that is held in New York this week (18-20 September) focuses on the theme “Women of Africa and the Diaspora and the Fight for Climate Justice.” The 5th of its kind, the summit is part of the global activities taking place around the high-level week of the 78th […]
King Mohammed VI of Morocco chaired a third meeting to follow up the implementation of the reconstruction after the earthquake ordering speeding up in implementing a program worth 120 billion dirhams ($12 billion) in the six quake-struck regions. The program will span over a five-year period covering the six provinces affected by the earthquake: Marrakech, […]
Acting Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez has said his country is working with Portugal and Morocco on a “solid and ambitious” bid for hosting the 2030 World Cup. In a tweet posted Tuesday following his meeting in New York with FIFA President Gianni Infantino, he said :“We are working with a clear idea in mind: football […]
Morocco becomes a natural partner to build strong friendship and cooperation ties with the European Union, EU ambassador to the Kingdom, Patricia Pilar Llombart Cussac, said Tuesday. “With its substantial energy resources, its proximity to Europe and its strong friendship and cooperation ties at all levels (…), Morocco becomes a natural partner to build such […]
Rwanda has recently signed two landmark deals that may see the East African country become a hub for research in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and nuclear energy — both of which are part of Rwanda’s ambitious aspirations to become an upper-middle income country by 2035, and a high-income country by 2050. Rwanda has […]