First Independent Mena Newspaper
King Mohammed VI urged on Thursday the Government to refine the draft program on vocational training overhaul and to speed up the implementation of the industrial plan of Souss-Massa region. At a working session chaired by the Sovereign in Rabat to follow up the measures and actions taken to modernize the sector of vocational education, […]
The Council of the European Union adopted Thursday (Nov.29) in Brussels the new fisheries agreement with Morocco, European sources said. The council’s move comes just one day after the Committee of Permanent Representatives in the EU, known by its French acronym COREPER, approved the new fisheries agreement. The agreement needs to be ratified by the […]
Not content with its decision to close its land borders with Morocco since 1994, Algeria has just announced it deployed a barbed wire wall of nearly 6,000 km along its borders, equipped with surveillance cameras and tens of control towers. Moroccan Al Massae daily, which reported the news Thursday, commented that Algeria has sealed its […]
The Moroccan telecommunications operator has received the “Smart City Africa” award for its project of high speed wifi network in the Casablanca tramway, called “Wifi M3ak”. The prize was handed to Mrs. Nadia Fassi-Fehri, President and CEO of Inwi, at a ceremony in Paris Tuesday, on the sidelines of the Smart City Forum. Inwi’s “Wifi […]
he International Finance Corporation has partnered with Cluster Solaire, an association of Moroccan sustainable energy actors for local industry development and start-up incubation, to support start-ups which design and market clean energy solutions. “Securing a greener future depends on pursuing an inclusive, economically, socially and environmentally beneficial energy transformation,” said Obaid Amrane, Permanent Secretary of […]
The indicators of Moroccan economy showed a positive evolution in 2018. Thus foreign direct investments (FDI) amounted to 30.2 billion dirhams at the end of the first ten months of the current year, compared to 21.3 billion at the end of October 2017. However, the trade deficit is worsening. According to the Exchange Office (Office […]
King Mohammed VI has paid tribute to the wisdom and clear-sightedness of late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, founder of the United Arab Emirates, who “contributed to consolidating not only Moroccan-Emirati bonds, but also the unity and solidarity between Arab countries”. In a message addressed to a conference held in Rabat on “Sheikh Zayed […]
Gabon’s President Ali Bongo is leaving King Faisal’s hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, this Wednesday(Nov. 28) and will head to Morocco for a recovery period, his wife confirmed on Tuesday. Sylvia Bongo wrote late Tuesday on her Facebook page that her husband’s health had improved significantly and that he would be transferred to a hospital […]
Princess Lalla Hasnaa, Chairwoman of the Mohammed VI Foundation for the Protection of the Environment, was awarded, Tuesday in Kyoto (Japan), the title of Doctor honoris causa by Ritsumeikan University. During a ceremony at the university campus, attended by several academics and officials, President of the University, Mikio Yoshida, underlined that this honorary degree is […]
US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, David Hale, who is on a visit to Morocco, has commended King Mohammed VI’s call for an open and frank dialogue with Algeria as a move that will benefit the peoples of the region and their future. The US official who made the remarks during talks at […]