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The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, has appointed Moroccan diplomat Fathallah Sijilmassi as Special Envoy for G20 and Global Affairs. The appointment aims to strengthen the African Union’s engagement with major global institutions and ensure that Africa’s priorities, perspectives, and interests are effectively articulated in international decision-making processes. In his new […]
An independent evaluation of Morocco’s Pioneer Schools program has found it continues to produce learning gains of ‘exceptional magnitude,’ even as it is rolled out at national scale. The assessment, by the Morocco Innovation and Evaluation Lab (MEL), a collaboration between Mohammed VI Polytechnic University and MIT’s J-PAL, covered roughly 36,000 students across 483 schools, […]
Morocco is preparing an overhaul of its social and solidarity economy sector through a draft framework law, now open for public consultation on the website of the Secretariat-General of the Government ahead of its passage through parliament. Carried by the ministry in charge of Handicrafts and the Social and Solidarity Economy, the bill aims to […]
Tangier will host the second edition of Les Rencontres Méditerranéennes from September 24 to 27, a literary gathering centered this year on women’s voices, poetry and dialogue between Mediterranean cultures. The event brings together writers, poets, artists, publishers and researchers from several countries bordering the Mediterranean, following a first edition held in June 2025 that […]
Morocco’s avocado export campaign opens this year in an unprecedented competitive landscape for the European market, with five major producing countries expected to supply Europe simultaneously through the winter, according to an analysis by Moroccan exporter Unique Packing. Combined shipments from Chile, Colombia, Israel, Spain and Morocco could reach roughly 500 million kilograms between weeks […]
Morocco’s national film center (CCM) has selected five documentary projects to represent the Kingdom at the Euro-Mediterranean Documentary Market (MEDIMED), running October 8 to 11 in Sitges, Spain, Aujourd’hui le Maroc reported. The projects were chosen from 51 submissions to take part in the 27th edition’s Pitching Forum, a reference platform bringing together broadcasters, co-producers, […]
Morocco’s Royal Armed Forces have expanded their AH-64E Apache attack helicopter fleet to 18 aircraft following delivery of a new batch of six airframes from Boeing’s Mesa, Arizona facility, transported aboard US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III airlifters. The delivery follows earlier tranches received in March 2025 and spring 2026, and forms part of a […]
Tamwilcom has received the World Bank’s highest rating, ‘Highly Satisfactory,’ for its Innov Invest Fund, nearly a decade after the program’s launch to finance and support Moroccan startups. Launched in 2017 with financial and technical backing from the World Bank, the fund is implemented by Tamwilcom on behalf of the Ministry of Economy and Finance […]
Morocco’s Ministry of Equipment and Water is launching a study of 10 major dams to measure sediment accumulated in their reservoirs and update their real storage capacity, following an exceptional rainy season that sharply raised fill levels at several facilities. The exercise, announced via the ministry’s ‘Mâa Dialna’ platform, aims to determine how much usable […]
Morocco has co-organized with the United Nations and the UN Alliance of Civilizations a global conference on intercultural dialogue and tolerance on the sidelines of 81st UNGA. The Conference, held Thursday, sought to promote interreligious and intercultural dialogue and tolerance in countering hate speech and promoting social cohesion. The conference, attended by the UN Secretary-General, […]