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Efforts to rebuild fully or partially demolished homes are underway along with the upgrade of roads, hospitals and schools, the head of the government said a few days ahead of the one-year anniversary of the earthquake that killed 3000 people mostly in the Atlas mountains. So far, 55,142 building permits have been handed with 49,632 […]
Moroccan foreign minister Nasser Bourita took part, on Tuesday in Beijing, in the ministerial meeting of the China-Africa Cooperation Forum, a platform seeking to foster Chinese-African partnership on the basis of the principles of solidarity, cooperation and respect of sovereignty and territorial integrity of states. During the meeting, the Chinese and African ministers discussed and […]
In a significant move towards sustainable energy, the steering committee for Morocco’s Green Hydrogen Initiative, known as “l’Offre Maroc,” held a meeting to discuss the criteria for projects after nearly 40 bids were submitted on a platform run by the Moroccan agency for sustainable energy MASEN. The committee emphasized transparency and competitiveness for bids across […]
Morocco has supplied Spain with two-thirds of its watermelon needs and sold France 45% of its imports of the water intensive fruit in 2023, despite persisting drought. Morocco faces growing competition from Senegal and Mauritania in the European watermelon market. Watermelon farms have been accused of depleting underground water in Moroccan southern desert areas. The […]
Moroccan foreign minister Nasser Bourita highlighted the fundamentals of Morocco’s foreign policy regarding the African continent, stressing the need to promote south-south and trilateral cooperation and advance the Royal initiative to help landlocked Sahel countries access the Atlantic ocean. Speaking at the Indonesia-Africa Forum, in which he represented King Mohammed VI, Bourita said that under […]
Some 26.4 million people used Moroccan trains to travel in the first six months this year, up 7% from the same period last year, rail operator ONCF said. Revenue grew 8% to 1.26 billion dirhams as more people use the fastest train in Africa Al Bouraq connecting Casablanca to Tangier. In total Al Boraq passengers […]
Morocco received 10 million tourists up to July this year, a record, as the country expects to outperform last year’s arrivals, the finance ministry said. Arrivals in the first seven months were 15% up compared to the same period last year, it said. In the month of July alone, 2.6 million people visited Morocco, up […]
The 50th session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), held in Yaoundé, has recognized and praised the Atlantic initiative launched by King Mohammed VI. The initiative, which seeks to strengthen cooperation and integration among African countries along the Atlantic coast, was lauded as a significant step toward enhancing […]
Kenya’s first ambassador to Morocco, Ms. Jessica Muthoni Gakinya, was received Friday in Rabat by Moroccan foreign minister Nasser Bourita. During the meeting, the Kenyan envoy handed over copies of her credentials to the minister, sending a strong message to the Algerian regime which has spent billions of dollars in a bid to thwart rapprochement […]
Morocco will share its railway expertise with Senegal under cooperation agreements signed Thursday in Rabat by the two countries’ national railway operators and training centers. The signing ceremony was co-chaired by Morocco’s Minister of Transport Mohammed Abdeljalil and Senegal’s peer Malick Ndiaye. The two ministers lauded the strong ties existing between the two countries and […]