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Hervé Renard, head coach of Morocco’s national soccer team, has signed a two-year and half deal with the Saudi football association. Renard, has not confirmed the deal, but Saudi sports media, Arriadiyyah, noted that kingdom’s football association will unveil the French technician in the next coming days, Huffpost Maghreb reports. Renard parted July 21 officially […]
The President of African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina, challenged governments in Africa to play a leading role in providing jobs for Africans, saying it was time for African governments to begin to shift from youth empowerment to youth investment. Adesina who was speaking over the weekend at the 5th Tony Elumelu African Entrepreneurship forum […]
Ministers of the Steering Committee for the Institutional Reform of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) have adopted a new Community public procurement code. This new governance instrument, which contributes to the revision of the ECCAS Financial Regulation, aims to regulate the procurement process in the regional bloc and institutions of the sub-region. […]
The Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ) dismantled, on Saturday, a terrorist cell linked to ISIS, composed of five extremists, aged between 24 and 36. One of the cell members had fought in the ranks of terrorist groups in Syria and had been convicted in Morocco for terrorism. Elements of the terrorist cell were in […]
Morocco’s gross domestic product per capita more than doubled in the last two decades of the reign of King Mohammed VI who made of fighting poverty a priority. The GDP per capita grew from 1460 dollars twenty years ago to about 3090 dollars currently, according to World Bank figures. Poverty rate dropped to 4% of […]
The South African Democratic Alliance has requested the Government to give updates on the investigations carried out on the alleged sexual harassment scandal involving Algerian ambassador to South Africa, pointing out that the wheels of justice seem to have come to a grinding halt in this case. The Democratic Alliance (DA) has submitted urgent Parliamentary […]
Since he took the reign twenty years ago, King Mohammed VI has attached utmost priority to protecting and promoting human rights while closing the chapter of past rights violations through a large-scale reconciliation process. The creation of the justice and reconciliation commission in 2003 was a major event during which victims spoke about the violations. […]
The Moroccan government has strongly decried the demolition by Israel of Palestinian buildings in East Jerusalem, saying the move violates international law and undermines the peace agreements signed by the Palestinian Authority and Israel. The remarks were made Thursday in Rabat by foreign minister Nasser Bourita who expressed Morocco’s “firm condemnation” of the demolition […]
Morocco enjoys political stability, robust infrastructure, and a strategic location, which have contributed to its emergence as a regional manufacturing and export base for international companies, says the State Department in its 2019 Climate Investment Statements. Morocco is actively encouraging and facilitating foreign investment, particularly in export sectors like manufacturing, through macro-economic policies, trade […]
Morocco’s OCP Group, the world’s first producer and exporter of phosphate in all its forms, continues expanding its African partnership aimed at unlocking Africa’s vast agricultural potential and contributing to the continent’s food security. Its subsidiary OCP Africa has teamed with Ghana’s ministry of food & agriculture (MOFA) to launch Mid-July in Nasia ‘Agribooster […]