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UK company Biwater has been picked up by Moroccan authorities to design and construct a new wastewater treatment facility for Moulay Bousselham, a fishing village and tourist destination positioned on the north coast of Morocco’s extensive coastline. The new wastewater facility will provide pre-treatment, biological treatment and advanced tertiary treatment, including closed low pressure ultraviolet […]
Morocco’s king has made a sincere call to the Algerian president to work together to improve relations and open borders, underlining the close ties between the two brotherly peoples whom he described as twins. But will the rulers of Algeria respond to this call? In a speech marking the Throne Day, King Mohammed VI reiterated […]
King Mohammed VI has sent a message of congratulations to Olympic athlete Soufiane El Bakkali, who won on Monday the gold medal in the 3,000 m steeplechase at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. In this message, the King expressed his warm congratulations and appreciation for El Bakkali’s great Olympic achievement, saying the Moroccan athlete’s win […]
The Moroccan Government has extended the night curfew from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. instead of 11 p.m. to 4.30 a.m. and banned travel to and from the cities of Casablanca, Marrakech, and Agadir, part of a series of tightened measures to curb the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic in view of the considerable increase […]
Military cooperation between Morocco and the USA was reviewed at meetings held in Rabat by General James C. McConville, Chief of Staff of the US Army, who is on an official work visit in Morocco at the head of a high-level delegation. The US senior officer held separate talks Monday with Minister in charge of […]
Morocco has maintained since January an uninterrupted national vaccination campaign thanks to steady supply of doses at a context marked by fierce competition. Morocco, under the leadership of King Mohammed VI, took a series of pro-active and protective measures including signing deals with AstraZeneca and Sinopharm vaccine manufacturers to make sure the country is given […]
Moroccan athlete Soufiane El Bakkali won the gold medal in the 3000m steeplechase this Monday (August 2nd) at the ongoing Olympic Games in Japan, giving Morocco its first medal at the Games. This is the first golden medal for Morocco since those gleaned by Hicham El Guerrouj in Sydney. El Bakkali becomes the […]
Morocco’s order of an additional 25 F-16C/D Block 72 fighter jets is on course of completion after the U.S. Air Force has awarded Raytheon Technologies a $212.05 million delivery order to provide fighter aircraft engines. In March 2019, the State Department approved the sale to Morocco of 25 F-16C/D Block 72 jets, built by Lockheed […]
Moroccan archeologists uncovered recently near Casablanca the oldest stone age hand-axe manufacturing site in north Africa, dating back to 1.3 million years. The discovery pushes back by hundreds of thousands of years the start date in north Africa of the Acheulian stone-tool industry, associated with the human ancestor Homo erectus, researchers said at a news […]
Morocco aims at becoming the most competitive automobile industry by 2025, Moulay Hafid Elalamy minister of Industry, Commerce and the Green and Digital Economy has announced in the wake of a new strategic agreement with French automaker Renault. The kingdom of Morocco and the French giant in the African country adopted a new strategic roadmap […]