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Morocco has been officially elected President of the 64th General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the supreme governing body of this UN agency. Delegates of the IAEA’s 64th General Conference, which kicked off in Vienna this Monday morning, elected by unanimous acclamation Morocco’s Ambassador, Azzeddine Farhane, President of the conference, a first […]
Germany will host on October 5, Berlin II conference on Libya as follow-up on the first part held in January this year. Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman of the UN Secretary General has confirmed to the media that the UN and Germany are preparing the conference which will be held online. The conference, Haq added, will […]
Morocco’s farm exports rose 8% in 2019-2020 season to 40 billion dirhams ($4 bln) despite a difficult context marked by a severe drought in some key exporting regions and the surge of the COVID-19 outbreak and its disruption of global supply chains, the agriculture ministry said. This performance shows the resilience and competitiveness of Morocco’s […]
Tangier is preparing for the opening of a university hospital with a capacity of 865 beds, the largest in the African continent. The hospital, worth 1.3 billion dirhams ($130 million), will help alleviate pressure on the northern regions hospitals. Already 93% of works are completed, auguring well for Tangier, which has been one of the […]
The Moroccan School of Engineering Sciences (EMSI) again stands out in the field of innovation. The institution, thanks to its research laboratories, won the Grand Prize and four gold medals at the Africa Innovation Week (IWA-2020). The four flagship inventions rewarded are “Genius water pipeline for buildings”; “Smart Micro-wind for Highway”; “Smart Hospital Management”; and […]
The Polisario leaders are in total disarray, after former security officer Mohamed Mahamud Embarek announced he is about to make devastating revelations about this organization, plagued, as he put it, by “corruption, nepotism and tribalism.” The former Polisario officer, who is settled in Belgium, says in his blog that he is about “to inaugurate […]
The results of an expertise carried out by the forensic science laboratory reveal that all the materials seized during the dismantling of the terrorist cell on September 10, are used in the manufacturing of explosive charges. The Attorney General at the Rabat Court of Appeal announced on Saturday that the materials seized by Morocco’s anti-terror […]
hMoroccan airline RAM said it will launch four new routes linking Marrakech to European cities in a bid to help the company and the city recover from the coronavirus impact. RAM chief Abdelhamid Addou said the decision was taken following a meeting with tourism minister Nadia Fettah Alaoui and head of the national tourism promotion […]
Morocco placed an order with Russian drug maker R-Pharm to acquire Covid-19 vaccine produced under a license from the UK’s AstraZenica, the health ministry said. AstraZenica developped the vaccine together with Oxford and R-Pharm has received the highest portion of vaccine orders globally so far. The deal was distantly signed by health minister Khaled Ait […]
Maltese Foreign Affairs Minister Evarist Bartolo stressed Thursday in Madrid that the European Union can benefit greatly from the Spanish-Moroccan cooperation model in the management of migration flows. The EU can learn from the experience of cooperation between Spain and Morocco, which created “channels for legal immigration and decent wages”, noted the Maltese official at […]