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Stella Terra, the world’s first solar powered car, has been tested in Morocco. Designed by students from Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands), the lightweight vehicle has completed lately a 1,000 km trip from Northern Morocco to its Sahara without recharging. The test drive showed that the car can drive long distances with stopping at EV […]
Morocco will invite bids by the end of the year for a 250 million cubic meters desalination plant in the north-eastern city of Nador, water and equipment minister Nizar Baraka said. The plant would be the second largest in the country after Casablanca’s which is planned to start supplying fresh water in 2027, Baraka told […]
Morocco will use the material deployed during the IMF-World Bank meetings to equip schools in the quake-stricken areas, finance ministry official and coordinator of the meeting’s logistics Mohamed Khamoudi said. The event drew 12,000 participants in a covered area of some 23 hectares in Morocco’s tourist hub Marrakech. The education ministry said it was already […]
African Export-Import Bank has pledged $1 billion in support for Morocco-Africa Trade & Investment program which finances and promotes intra- and extra-African trade. An agreement was inked over the weekend on the sidelines of the 2023 Annual Meetings of the World Bank & the International Monetary Fund held in Marrakesh October 9 to 15. Under […]
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres highlighted Morocco’s steadfast commitment to the ceasefire in the Sahara and military agreements and highlighted the “close cooperation” between the Moroccan authorities and MINURSO. In his latest report to the Security Council on the Sahara that was published on the UN website, Guterres said that he “notes Morocco’s stated intention […]
Thousands of Moroccans marched Sunday in down-town Rabat in solidarity with Palestine, and in protest of the deterioration of the situation and the ongoing military action in the Gaza Strip. During the march, participants expressed the Moroccan people’s commitment to defending the Palestinian cause and the legitimate and just rights of the Palestinian people. Men […]
Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita and Secretary General of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Hussein Al Sheikh, discussed in a phone call Sunday the situation in Gaza. The two sides stressed the need for joint efforts to end the war, protect civilians, provide humanitarian aid, and prevent the displacement of Palestinians. […]
The IMF announced Saturday member nations agreed to increase their contributions to the global lender and give sub-Saharan Africa a third seat on its executive board at its first meetings on the continent since 1973. The IMF announced Saturday member nations agreed to increase their contributions to the global lender and give sub-Saharan Africa a […]
The UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, has debunked, in his new report to the Security Council on the Sahara, the thousands of communiqués released by Algeria and the “Polisario” on an imaginary war in the Moroccan Sahara. In this report which has just been officially published on the UN website, Guterres described the situation in […]
UN Chief Antonio Guterres dedicated a significant part of his report to the Security Council on the Sahara to the visit paid by his Personal Envoy Staffan de Mistura to Laâyoune and Dakhla, in the Moroccan Saharan provinces on September 5-7. In the report which has just been officially published on the United Nations’ website, […]