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Moroccan train operator ONCF regained normal traffic with 34.5 million passengers using its trains in 2021, up 64% compared to a year earlier marked by Covid-19 lockdown and travel restrictions. The state-owned company’s revenue stood at 3.5 billion dirhams the same year, compared with 2.8 billion in 2020, ONCF chief told the board of directors. […]
Olive harvest has increased by more than 40% on average since farmers, owners of olive groves, followed the Al Moutmir program, initiated by the phosphates group (OCP), which installed demonstration platforms allowing the farmers to optimize olive cultivation in a scientific way. They are more than 630 farmers who benefited from OCP Al Moutmir platforms […]
Morocco has underlined the need to clear up misunderstandings on the migration phenomenon to strengthen the Africa-Europe partnership. This came in an address delivered by Moroccan Foreign Minister at an online discussion panel on “Migration and Mobility in the Africa-Europe partnership”, organized by the Africa-Europe Foundation ahead of the 6th EU-Africa Summit in Brussels (Feb. […]
For failing to show a vaccination certificate or a negative PCR test as required for all inbound/outbound travelers, Royal Air Maroc staff operating in Hassan I airport in Laayoune refused on Thursday to allow Polisario agent Aminatou Haidar to board a plane heading to Casablanca and Madrid. The anti-covid precautionary travel regulations enforced in Morocco […]
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s (EBRD) injected €211 million in 10 projects carried out in Morocco in 2021. More than half of the total investment funded green projects. Through its Green Economy Financing Facility (GEFF) and the Green Value Chain Program, the EBRD provided a total of €88 million to partnering banks to […]
Morocco will reopen its airports to international passenger flights on February 7, after it has kept borders shut since Nov 29 to ward off a surge in Omicron infections, the government said. The flight resumption comes after a drop in Covid-19 infections which hit a peak last week with daily cases averaging 8500. The decision […]
King Mohammed VI chaired this Thursday in the province of Benslimane (Casablanca-Settat Region), the launching ceremony of the works for the construction of a manufacturing plant for Covid-19 vaccines and other vaccines. The plant will require an investment of approximately 400 to 500 million euros. With the launch of this structuring project which, in the […]
A major hostile media campaign is targeting Morocco in a bid to destabilize it through the Pegasus spyware case spearheaded by Forbidden Stories consortium and some NGOs in total violation of deontological ethics of journalism. Morocco has made some European countries feel uncomfortable as they remained entrenched in their colonial shell. The North African Kingdom […]
The Moroccan government Council decided this Thursday to extend the state of health emergency, that was expected to expire at the end of this January, until February 28, 2022 to preserve the progress achieved in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic and reduce the risks of contamination by the new variants, namely the fast-spreading Omicron. […]
Morocco’s unwavering stance regarding the Palestinian cause was reiterated in Addis Ababa at the 43rd session of the African Union Permanent Representatives’ Committee (PRC), held in preparation of the coming sessions of the Executive Council and the AU Summit. “Morocco reaffirms its strong and clear position in favor of the Palestinian cause and continues its […]