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The feature film “Annatto” by Moroccan director and screenwriter Fatima Ali Boubekdi won the Grand Prix of the 10th Dakhla International Film Festival, which wrapped up Sunday. The Jury Prize of this festival was awarded to “Night of the kings” by director Philippe Lacôte from Côte d’Ivoire. The Award for best female performance went to […]
King Mohammed VI has laid out his vision to spur a genuine African investment industry that can guarantee massive, sustainable mobilization of capital and ensure effective integration into financial markets. In a message addressed Monday to the conference of Africa Sovereign Investors Forum “ASIF” convened in Rabat, the Monarch said sovereign wealth and strategic investment […]
The mighty and offensive Apache helicopters will be deployed during the African Lion 2022, offering a chance for Moroccan pilots to improve their handling of the aircraft, Moroccan media said. Morocco has previously sent pilots to be trained on handling the helicopter in 2020. In November 2019, the US State department cleared the sale of36 […]
Morocco jumped five places, improving its ranking in the 2022 global peace index into the 74th position. In the MENA region, Morocco came sixth, preceded only by Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, the UAE and Oman in the ranking that measures security conditions in 163 countries. In Africa, Morocco came seventh outperformed by Ghana, Botswana, Zambia, Malawi, […]
Nothing demonstrates the deep isolation of the Algerian regime in its Arab and African environment than the abstinence of the Arab League and the African Union from taking a stand on the Algeria-Spain feud. In contrast, when Spain tried to Europeanize its crisis with Morocco last year, the Arab League, the Arab Parliament and the […]
The draft of Tunisia’s new Constitution to be put to referendum in July is expected to be unveiled this Monday, while protests calling for the referendum boycott are continuing. The draft will be presented to President Kais Saied, law expert Amine Mahfoudh said Sunday, according to Webdo Tunis. The constitutionalist is member of a national […]
Security and intelligence cooperation between Morocco and Spain were discussed during the working visit the Director General of National Security and Territorial Surveillance, Abdellatif Hammouchi, paid to Madrid June 16 and 17. Hammouchi, who was leading a delegation made up of directors and executives of the central services of the General Directorate for Territorial Surveillance […]
The international community commemorated Saturday June 18 for the first time the International Day for Countering Hate Speech, an opportunity to renew global solidarity for combating hate speech which is the prime catalyst for hatred, inter-religious discord, discrimination, incitement to violence, and acts of violence against people and communities. The day, celebrated on June 18 […]
A delegation of Morocco’s phosphates and fertilizers producer OCP met officials in Niamey where they discussed possibilities for a fertilizers plant in the Sub-Saharan country, Niger’s state news agency reported. The meeting was part of Niger’s endeavors to seek partnerships to develop its agricultural sector, especially at a delicate international context marked by the disruption […]
An UN-brokered meeting between the speakers of Libya’s rival assemblies, the High Council of State, which acts as a senate, and the east -based House of Representative (Parliament), has failed to take place, according to a Libyan lawmaker on Saturday. Khaled al-Mishri, the head of the Tripoli-based High Council of State, was invited by UN […]