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Morocco and the World Bank inked a deal under which the North African country shall benefit from a precautionary line of 275 million dollars in the case of natural disasters. The deal was signed in Rabat by Finance Minister Mohammed Benchaaboun and Maghreb director at WB Jesko Hentschel. The World Bank had said in a […]
Morocco has condemned in the strongest terms the banditry practiced by the Polisario militias after the Algerian-backed separatist group threatened to disrupt an international car race crossing the tiny buffer strip between Morocco and Mauritania. The remarks were made by Morocco’s Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita Friday at the inauguration ceremony by Guinea of its consulate […]
The Atlantic city of Essaouira was consecrated Friday as the city of Arts, Culture and Handicraft as King Mohammed VI launched there the establishment of a City of Arts & Culture and inaugurated an integrated crafts complex. These two projects translate the King’s firm will to preserve the artistic and cultural heritage of Essaouira, a […]
Gabon has opened a Consulate General in Laâyoune this Friday at a ceremony chaired by Gabonese Foreign Minister Alain-Claude Bilie-By-Nze and his Moroccan peer Nasser Bourita. The Gabonese Consulate General is the third diplomatic representation in Laâyoune after the honorary consulate of Côte d’Ivoire that was inaugurated in June last year and the Consulate General […]
King Mohammed VI, Commander of the Faithful, on Friday handed over to six top laureates of the 2018-2019 literacy program the Mohammed VI Prize. The ceremony took place after the Friday prayer at the Lalla Amina Mosque in the Atlantic city of Essaouira. The prize winners are, in the women’s category, Naima Amine (Beni […]
It seems that the Polisario’s worst nightmare is coming true as the number of African countries opening consular representations in the Moroccan Sahara is increasing, deepening the isolation of the separatist group. In this vein, Guinea, one of the African countries strongly backing Morocco’s territorial integrity, opened on Friday jan.17 a Consulate General in the […]
The pharmaceutical plant, built in Kigali by leading Moroccan drug maker Cooper Pharma, will be operational in July, announced the local representative of Cooper Pharma. In its first phase, the 20,000 M2 facility will produce intravenous (IV) fluid before starting the production of antibiotics. Its construction started in 2017 following the visit paid by King […]
The Moroccan government Council adopted on Thursday a new bill regulating the use of agricultural pesticides in a bid to protect the health of citizens, animals and the environment. The former pesticide legislation, dating back to 1997, has become obsolete in view of the major global changes and progress made in the development, testing, production […]
Few days after announcing a €10.8 billion (115.4 billion MAD) national plan to meet Morocco’s increasing water needs over the next seven year, King Mohammed VI inaugurated a dam near Essaouira worth about €87 million (920 million dirhams). Built on Oued Ksoub, Moulay Abderrahmane dam, with a 65 million m3 capacity, will secure drinking water […]
King Mohammed VI had Thursday a phone conversation with the newly elected President of Tunisia Kaïs Saïed during which they agreed to exchange visits, says the Royal Office in a communiqué. The phone call, at the initiative of the Moroccan Monarch, provided an opportunity “to underline the strong historical relations binding the two brotherly […]