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King Mohammed VI of Morocco has been named “Personality of the Year 2021”, by former French socialist deputy Julien Dray, in recognition of the Monarch’s outstanding democratic achievements and his firm solidarity with African countries. Speaking lately on French TV channel CNEWS, Mr. Dray said under the leadership of the Moroccan Sovereign, the North African […]
Researchers from Morocco, Israel, and France have discovered remnants of a small Jewish community in the mountains of Morocco. The ruins of the community’s synagogue in the small village of Tamanart – located on the outskirts of the Sahara desert – were found while conducting a preliminary survey of Jewish sites in the area and […]
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) and the Qatari TV channel Al-Jazeera have adopted Morocco’s undivided map, including its Sahara territory, dealing a hard blow to the Algerian regime and its polisario puppet. The move comes after the Arab League’s recent decision to adopt a unified map of the Arab world, showing undivided Morocco including […]
Morocco’s high-speed train, Al Boraq, has started using green energy as of January 1, 2022, the National Railways Office (ONCF) announced in a press release. Thanks to the clean energy provided by a national operator, ONCF greens the power cycle of the national railway network, substituting its electricity consumption with clean energy. The Office operates […]
The Rabat-based Bayt Mal Al-Quds Al-Sharif Agency has launched the “Winter of Al-Quds 2021” campaign, for the benefit of schoolchildren and families of orphans sponsored by the Agency. The agency has allocated $80,000 to this campaign, which is part of the programs and projects implemented by Bayt Mal Al-Quds Al-Sharif Agency in various priority social […]
Dolidol, a Moroccan manufacturer and distributor of bedding products, has secured a €20 million financial support of the International Finance Corporation and Proparco to enhance its production and sales in Nigeria. The financing package includes a loan of €13.5 million from IFC and €6.5 million provided by Proparco, the French Development Institution. The financing will […]
Morocco expects Omicron to be the dominating Covid-19 variant in the few upcoming days and has urged citizens to take a third dose to reinforce collective immunity, health minister Khalid Ait Taleb said. Speaking to AL Oula TV channel, Ait Taleb said that Omicron can spread five times faster than Delta but its lethality rate […]
The Moroccan financial sector continues to show resilience against the negative impacts generated by the Covid-19 pandemic, said the “Coordination & Systemic Risk Monitoring Committee” following its meeting held Tuesday in Rabat at the headquarters of Bank Al-Maghrib. After the three-year review of the 2019-2021 period, the Committee examined and approved the new financial stability […]
Moroccan researcher Mohamed Zoubairi is among the winners of the Sharjah Award for Plastic Art’s Critical Research, announced Wednesday the management of this 12th edition. During this cultural competition on plastic arts and scenography, Zoubairi ranked second with his work titled “Plastic arts and scenography, from accompaniment to identification”. The Iraqi researcher Kazem Nouir won […]
Algerians from all walks of life continued to suffer in 2021 from acute shortage of bread, milk, cooking oil, potatoes, sugar, pasta, oxygen for covid-19 patients and ICU beds, while their rulers are squandering the country’s petrodollars on military expenditure. Such explosive social situation with deepening political crisis is fueling Hirak pro-democracy protestors demanding a […]