First Independent Mena Newspaper
A parliamentary forum on the fight against religious extremism will be held in Morocco shortly in partnership with the Morocco-European Union Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC). The announcement was made this Friday in Rabat during the 10th annual session of the Morocco-EU JPC, co-chaired by Moroccan MP Abderrahim Atmoun, and Spanish MEP Inès Ayala Sender (from […]
King Mohmmed VI has attached utmost priority to revamping the vocational training offer in order to be adapted to the labor market requirement and equip the Moroccan youth with skills that would help them easily find jobs. After two previous similar meetings, the King has chaired Thursday a working session on the program to upgrade […]
The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) will convene its 44th annual meeting in Marrakech April 3-6 to discuss challenges and explore opportunities facing IsDB Group member countries. The announcement of the venue was made Thursday by Moroccan Minister of Economy & Finance Mohamed Benchaaboun during the Public-Private Partnerships Forum 2019 organized by the IsDB in Rabat. […]
The adoption of the farm and fisheries agreements between Morocco and the European Union (EU) confirms the strength of relations between the two partners, said Thursday in Rabat Mrs. Ines Ayala Sender, co-chair of EU-Morocco-Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC). Partnership between the two sides gained momentum following the recent vote by the European Parliament for the […]
King Mohammed VI congratulated President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, upon his re-election to the highest office of his country. After he addressed him a felicitations message on Wednesday, the Monarch reiterated his congratulations to President Buhari in a telephone talk Thursday. The call was an opportunity for both leaders to reiterate their shared desire to […]
Cooperation prospects and coordination between Morocco and Mali in migration management were at the center of talks, held Tuesday in Bamako, between Malian PM Soumeylou Boubeye Maïga and Moroccan Minister Delegate for expatriates & migration affairs Abdelkrim Benatiq. The two officials voiced willingness to enhance further bilateral relations in various fields in accordance with the […]
Morocco’s first sugar refinery Cosumar confirmed that production in its new refinery in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia, will start by the end of 2019, as planned. The confirmation was made by the firm’s CEO Mohammed Fikrat in a statement to the media Tuesday, in Casablanca. The establishment of the new white sugar refinery, named Durrah sugar […]
Varroc Lighting Systems opened Tuesday a greenfield 17,000-square meter facility in Tangier, Morocco. The facility produces headlamps, rear lamps, and daytime running lamps for current and future customers located in Morocco, Spain, and France. Speaking on this occasion, Moulay Hafid Elalamy, Minister of Industry, Investment, Trade and Digital Economy, said the opening of this plant […]
The embezzlement of humanitarian assistance is seemingly an enduring phenomenon in the Polisario-run Tindouf camps although the populations sequestrated there are in dire need of this assistance. A new embezzlement scandal broke out Tuesday, when the canary Islands “La Provincia” daily reported the diversion of some €2.5 million of humanitarian aid provided by the international […]
President Ali Bongo has appointed Gabon’s envoy to Togo as his new ambassador to Morocco that hosted him for medical treatment for several months after he suffered a stroke in October while attending an investment conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. President Bongo returned home Sunday after he spent a convalescence period in Morocco. At the […]