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The project consisting in shipping electricity from Morocco to the UK led by Xlinks has featured in the UK’ s government energy security plan, dubbed Powering UP Britain. The policy paper sets out interest in the Xlinks project, a proposed large scale onshore wind, solar and battery electricity generation site in Morocco that would exclusively […]
Credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s Global Ratings has maintained Morocco’s sovereign credit rating at BB+/B with a “stable outlook”, attributed to the country’s ongoing structural reforms that will support robust economic growth. “The stable outlook on Morocco reflects our expectation that ongoing structural reforms will support robust economic growth and help counterbalance external and […]
Morocco is set to bolster the share of renewable energy in its installed capacity to 43% by the end of the year, from 41% currently with a view to increasing its consumption of renewable energies to 52% of the global total by 2030, said head of Morocco’s water and electricity utility Abderrahim El Hafidi. Speaking […]
Morocco commemorated, Saturday, 10th day of the holy month of Ramadan 1444 H, the 64th anniversary of the passing away of the Liberator of the Nation, late King Mohammed V. On this occasion, King Mohammed VI, Commander of the Faithful, accompanied by Crown Prince Moulay El Hassan, Prince Moulay Rachid, Prince Moulay Ahmed and Prince […]
Morocco’s Royal Navy coastguard, patrolling the southern waters, rescued, on Saturday, around 151 illegal migrants who were boarding a wooden boat. The migrants were about to drown off the city of Dakhla. The migrants, mostly sub-Saharans, were handed to the gendarmerie in the same city.
King Mohammed VI, Commander of the Faithful, accompanied by Crown Prince Moulay El Hassan, Prince Moulay Rachid and Prince Moulay Ismail, chaired Friday at the Royal Palace in Rabat, the second religious lecture of the holy month of Ramadan. The lecture, under the theme “How to form an ideal nation in the light of the […]
UN Sahara envoy Staffan De Mistura met on Thursday at the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. According to the UN Department of Political & Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA), Mr. de Mistura reported to the UN Chief on the informal consultations he held this week with all parties […]
The Rabat-based Bayt Mal Al-Quds Asharif Agency has inaugurated in the Holy City of Al Quds the emergency vigilance, coordination and monitoring unit, funded by the Kingdom of Morocco. The opening of this unit, which is part of the Agency’s budget allocated this year to support the health sector, was supervised by the director in […]
Morocco’s migration and asylum policies were welcomed by most speakers at the 36th Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. On the occasion of the review of the second periodic report on the implementation of the international convention on the subject, the Committee’s rapporteurs interacted with […]
King Mohammed VI, Commander of the Faithful, accompanied by Crown Prince Moulay El Hassan, Prince Moulay Rachid and Prince Moulay Ismail, chaired the first religious lecture of the holy month of Ramadan at the Royal Palace in Rabat on Wednesday. The lecture by Minister of Endowments and Islamic Affairs Ahmed Toufiq was titled “The fruits […]