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Morocco’s central bank, Bank Al-Maghrib, and the World Bank announced on Tuesday the launch of the City-Tour concept, an innovative training-action to improve access to financial services. The City-Tour concept, launched in the framework of the Greenback Initiative Morocco, consists in organizing guided tours to financial services agencies for the benefit of potential users, supervised […]
The city of Dakhla will host, this March 8 and 9, the Morocco-United States Investment Forum, meant to strengthen bilateral economic ties, highlight the investment assets in the Moroccan southern provinces and promote the region through the presentation of its potential and investment opportunities to American investors and operators. Initiated by the Council of the […]
Moroccans prayed for rain after the Friday prayer as the country faces its worst drought since 1981. Late and unevenly distributed rainfall has put a strain on Moroccan farmers who are bracing for a tough year that required the government to intervene. The government has unveiled two weeks ago a plan to mitigate drought impact […]
A new step forward in the legalization of cannabis cultivation in Morocco was made Thursday as the government adopted at its weekly meeting a decree regulating the activities related to the culture of the plant and selected three provinces, namely Al Hoceima, Chefchaouen and Taounate that will grow cannabis legally. This decree, drafted by the […]
The reports of discrimination against African nationals trying to flee Ukraine have caused uproar, after Africans, mostly students, have accused Ukrainian security forces of racially profiling them, and of stopping them from getting on trains. The current Chair of the African Union and President of Senegal, Macky Sall, and the Chairperson of the AU Commission, […]
By March 1 at noon, over 2000 Moroccans, mostly students, managed to leave the Ukrainian territory to neighboring countries, Moroccan foreign ministry said. Most crossings took place in Poland, followed by Romania, Slovakia and Hungary as Morocco dislocated its embassy and consular staff to Lviv, about 70 kilometers south of the Polish border. Prior to […]
Morocco will reserve seats for Mauritanian students on flights scheduled by Royal Air Maroc to evacuate Moroccans living in Ukraine, the Mauritanian Foreign Ministry announced this Monday, February 28. Mauritanian students established in Ukraine will be able to board special flights to be operated by RAM to repatriate Moroccan nationals from March 2. The Mauritanian […]
The Rabat-based Bayt Mal Al-Quds Asharif Agency and “Al Liqaa” Center for Religious, Heritage and Cultural Studies in Palestine signed, on Saturday in Al-Quds, a partnership and cooperation framework agreement aimed at supporting religious and cultural dialogues. The agreement, which aims to encourage religious and cultural exchanges in the Holy Land between different peoples and […]
Mohammed VI foundation for African Ulema (religious scholars) held an event on interreligious dialogue in Abidjan during which the Moroccan King’s religious leadership was highlighted as a bulwark against extremism in the continent. Speaking at this event, head of Côte D’Ivoire’s Islamic Affairs Council Cheikhoul Aima Ousma Diakite expressed recognition to Morocco under the leadership […]
The Quebec Government has launched a recruitment campaign to address urgent and severe nursing shortage due to burnout from overworked nurses amidst the recent surge of Omicron. The province’s labor immigration minister Jean Boulet has announced a $65 million funding over two years to properly “recruit and integrate” nurses from Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Cameroon and […]