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French TV channel M6 aired lately an investigation on ISIS Jihadists who have managed to settle without any problem in Europe, and particularly in Germany. The M6 flagship program “Enquête Exclusive” showed how ISIS Jihadists managed to slip through the cracks by posing as asylum seekers, and how they ended up being greeted with open […]
Several European media outlets have expressed admiration for Morocco’s vaccination campaign, which enabled so far to inoculate 4.17 million people with 1.22 million having received the second dose. Since its launch end of January in Morocco, the vaccination campaign is progressing at an “impressive pace”, with more than 4 million people vaccinated, French daily newspaper […]
The PJD Islamist party, which took most votes in the latest general elections, is more divided than ever after its former Secretary General froze his membership in the party and declared a boycott of the current party’s leadership after the government approved a cannabis legalization draft bill. The PJD’s predication branch (MUR) also expressed reservations […]
The US will donate $2.5 million to Morocco in support of its sustained vaccination campaign, the largest in Africa and one of the top 10 most successful in the world. A spokesperson for the US embassy in Rabat said that USAID has given Morocco 10.7 million dollars in support of its coronavirus response. It is […]
The president of the Royal Moroccan Federation (FRMF), Fouzi Lekjaa, was elected this Friday March 12 to the Council of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA), an election that consecrates Moroccan sports diplomacy. Fouzi Lekjaa was appointed member of the FIFA Council during the 43rd Ordinary and Elective General Assembly of the African Football […]
Thousands of foreign residents have benefited from Morocco’s free coronavirus vaccination campaign which kicked off on January 28. King Mohammed VI had ordered that the campaign be open to Moroccans and foreign residents in the country in a bid to achieve collective immunity as soon as possible. President of the association of French nationals in […]
Morocco has been named at the high-level dialogue on energy as UN world champion of dialogue on the theme of “innovation, technology and data”, in recognition of the country’s efforts for the development of integrated and innovative renewable projects, with the objective of exceeding 52 % of renewable sources, in the national electricity mix by […]
The Casablanca Finance City Authority (CFCA) and the Financial Services Development Council (FSDC) of Hong Kong have agreed to strengthen cooperation and share experiences for the development of financial services industry. The agreement was inked Wednesday remotely by CEO of CFCA Saïd Ibrahimi and Head of FSDC Dr Au King-lun. The two centers will conduct […]
Journalist Hafsa Boutahar, who is suing her colleague Omar Radi for rape, has denounced the partiality and lack of support shown to her by the Moroccan Association of Human Rights, expressing her determination to go “to the end” of the trial. The journalist, at a press conference in Rabat on Wednesday, March 10, lambasted the […]
The World Bank Vice-Pdt for the MENA region Farid Belhaj has voiced the bank’s readiness to increase its support to Morocco in social and economic sectors to enable the Kingdom take up development challenges. At separate meetings in Rabat with Head of Government Saad Dine El Otmani and Moroccan Minister of Economy & Finance Mohamed […]