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Tunisia’s minister of Tourism kick started Wednesday “Visit Tunisia” project funded by the US development agency USAID to the tune of $50 million. The project is expected to create thousands of jobs. Mohamed Moez Belhassein unveiled the project in the presence of the US envoy to the North African country Donald Bloom, in the Sbeitla […]
The World Bank Group-IMF Annual Meetings, initially scheduled to take place in Marrakech in October 2022, will take place in 2023, the two financial institutions announced in a press release this Monday. “The planned World Bank Group-IMF Annual Meetings that were scheduled to take place in Marrakesh, Morocco, in October 2022, will now take place […]
Morocco continues to enhance its stockpile of vaccines against covid-19 as it prepares to reopen its borders for inbound/outbound commercial flights starting February 7. The North African Kingdom has received over the weekend additional 1.6 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine donated by the United States through Covax program. This new donation of Pfizer doses […]
The Southern zone General Staff of the Royal Armed Forces (FAR) is hosting, from January 24 to 28, 2022, the master planning meeting of the African Lion 2022 exercise, with the participation of representatives of several countries besides Morocco and the United States. The meeting, held pursuant to the instructions of King Mohammed VI, Supreme […]
The restoration project of historic mosaics of the archeological site of Volubilis, an ancient Roman city near Meknes, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, was launched Wednesday in presence of minister of culture Mohamed Mehdi Bensaid and U.S. Chargé d’Affaires, David Greene. Supported by the U.S., the $189,000 project will be carried out by Ifker Association […]
The U.S. government has donated Morocco seven ultra-cold chain freezers, which will strengthen the country’s storage capacity of vaccines against Covid-19. The announcement was made by Samantha Power, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). In a tweet posted Tuesday, Mrs. Samantha said the ultra-cold freezers will help Moroccan health authorities keep doses […]
Morocco has granted four exploration licenses for gold mines to the Canadian company Stellar AfricaGold Inc. part of its plans to upgrade the exploitation of its natural resources. The Canadian exploration company, which explores precious metals, has announced it secured the four new exploration permits to expand operations in Tichka, at approximately 80 kilometers south-southwest […]
The UN Secretary General’s personal envoy for the Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, was in Rabat on Thursday, where he started his first tour of the region since taking office in November 2021. Reiterating its support for the UN envoy, the Biden administration, part of the continuity of the American recognition, in December 2020, of the […]
Apple has joined a number of international organizations, media and other brands that have published world or regional maps featuring an undivided map of Morocco, including its Sahara provinces. Actually in its latest update of Apple Maps, the company has confirmed Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara, displaying an undivided map of the Kingdom, with no […]
Prominent U.S. congressmen have set up a bipartisan caucus to strengthen and expand the U.S. brokered Abraham accords which helped to normalize relations between Israel, Morocco, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Sudan. The new caucus was announced lately in a joint statement by four senators and four members of the House of Representatives. In […]