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Global donors pledged Sunday December 3 at the 2023 Reaching the Last Mile Forum, held part of the ongoing COP28 in the UAE, a collective $777.2 million to help control, eliminate, and eradicate neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in Africa. The event hosted by Reaching the Last Mile (RLM), the global health initiative driven by the […]
King Mohammed VI will pay an official visit to the United Arab Emirates as of Monday. The official visit takes place at the invitation of the UAE President Sheikh Mohammed Ben Zayed Al-Nahyan. The announcement came in a press release published this Sunday by the Ministry of the Royal Household, Protocol and Chancellery. Morocco and […]
Morocco, which is actively participating in the ongoing Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) in Dubai, got €50 million donation from European Union to promote clean energy and decarbonization in development sectors and signed a joint declaration with Portugal on electrical interconnection between the two countries. The […]
The Moroccan director, screenwriter, and producer, Asmae El Moudir, has won the Grand Prize of the 20th Marrakech International Film Festival, for her film The Mother of All Lies, a first time in the festival’s long history. The 96-minute Arabic-language movie thus becomes the first Moroccan film to win L’Étoile d’Or in the history of […]
Morocco has once again championed climate action in favor of Africa, urging active solidarity with the countries of the continent as they seek to meet their own socio-economic and sustainable development goals. In an address to the UN climate summit COP28 in Dubai, King Mohammed VI reiterated Morocco’s pledge to help the African continent address […]
The Rabat-based Islamic World Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (ICESCO) will provide financial grants to the Palestinian students attending Universities and Institutes in Morocco. The initiative, announced as part of the observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, is meant to offer support to the Palestinian students amid the challenging circumstances […]
The U.S. State Department has praised Morocco’s comprehensive counterterrorism strategy, which includes vigilant security measures, regional and international cooperation, and counter radicalization policies. In its latest annual report released Nov.30 on terrorism in the world, the State department said the United States and Morocco have a long history of strong counterterrorism (CT) cooperation, hailing the […]
King Mohammed VI has addressed a message to the World Climate Action Summit, held as part of the 28th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) being held in Dubai, United Arab Emiraters, wherin he pleads for a pact for action to address the climate challenges. Here […]
Morocco was elected, in Vienna this Friday, to host the 93rd session of the General Assembly of the International Criminal Police Organization, Interpol. The 93 session will be held in Marrakech in 2025. The decision was made by the 91st session of Interpol, held from November 28 to December 1 in the Austrian capital. Director […]
Commercial International Bank, CIB, of Egypt has secured $148 million from the African Development Bank (AfDB), in form of financial package earmarked to support Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) as well as trade amid a shortage of foreign currency in the North African country due to complex endogenous and exogenous macro-economic and geopolitical factors. Including […]