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Senegalese foreign minister Amadou Ba has renewed his country’s backing to Morocco’s autonomy plan offered for the Sahara, affirming that this plan, recognized by the international community as serious and credible, is the only solution to this regional conflict. Speaking at a press briefing Monday in Rabat after meeting his Moroccan peer Nacer Bourita, […]
Morocco will for the first time ever compete in surfing championship at 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games after its athlete Ramzi Boukhiam booked a place among world-class surfers. The kingdom’s Surfing and Body-board federation which made the announcement said Ramzi Boukhiam will be the only African candidate for the championship. He won the top place of […]
Former Spanish Formula 1 legend Fernando Alonso will take part in the Rally Morocco, next month, as a rehearsal for his participation in Rally Dakar next year in Saudi Arabia, his team Toyota Gazoo Racing has announced. The rally is slated for October 3-5 and is viewed as the traditional warm-up event for the Dakar […]
Fitch Ratings has assigned “Excellent” score to the Moroccan fund CDG Capital Gestion, with a stable outlook. This top rating has been awarded to the fund due to its broad stability and its best investment resources organization. According to Fitch analysts, the “Excellent” mark of CDG Capital Gestion is driven by “its highly disciplined investment […]
Morocco keeps attracting global car parts manufacturers thanks to the infrastructure and business climate it offers. Yazaki is one of the Japanese car part manufacturers who grabbed the investment opportunities offered by Morocco as a platform for exports to Europe and Africa. The company, which opened its first Moroccan plant in Tangier in 2000, is […]
Over 1200 students representing 58 universities from the USA, Europe, Asia and Africa are taking part in the African Solar Decathlon 2019 currently held in the green city Mohammed VI of Benguerir, Morocco. This international competition (Sept.13-27) challenges collegiate teams to design and build solar-powered houses that are highly energy-efficient, affordable, and comfortable to live […]
Morocco was ranked the fifth largest tomato producer preceded by Iran, Spain, the Netherlands and Mexico. France was the first destination of Morocco’s tomatoes with 368 million kilograms, followed by Russia and Spain, said the EU statistics agency Eurostat. In 2018, Morocco produced 569 million kilograms of tomatoes, representing 6.72% of global production worth €582 […]
King Mohammed VI of Morocco has firmly condemned as “despicable terrorist act” the attack that targeted two major oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, pointing out that the aggression threatens world peace and security. In a message to King Salman Ibn Abdelaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia, King Mohammed VI has expressed his strong condemnation […]
West African leaders have pledged $1 billion to combat the threat of Islamist militancy in the region, the head of the regional bloc said on Saturday at the end of the extraordinary summit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) held in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The extraordinary summit was attended by the […]
The Moroccan government has expressed its full backing to the international campaign to be launched by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to counter the Israeli prime minister’s plans to annex the occupied Jordan Valley and the northern part of the Dead Sea. Addressing an OIC extraordinary meeting, convened in the Red Sea City of […]