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Qatar and Burkina Faso signed Tuesday a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in which the Gulf country through its Fund for development (QFFD) will back education in the West African country to the tune of $3 million. Olivia Rouamba, the Burkina Faso top diplomat signed the MoU on behalf of the African country. Per the deal, […]
The Moroccan film “Sharaa”, by director Hussein Hanin, won the “Golden Hypatia” Award at the 9th Alexandria Short Film Festival. The short film (19 minutes), which was screened for the first time in the Middle East and North Africa, tells the story of “Assou” a man in his 40s who loves his wife and daughter, […]
The university has a key role to play in the emergence of a generation imbued with the values of cultural diversity and otherness that make the uniqueness of the Moroccan civilizational model, said André Azoulay, Advisor to King Mohammed VI. “In a world in search of landmarks where otherness has become a source of conflict […]
A ceremony held in Nigeria on Tuesday (20 December), which saw twenty historic bronze sculptures returned to the country by Germany as part of efforts to address its “dark colonial past,” was the culmination of a years-long process that upended Germany’s approach to museum items looted during the colonial era. Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock […]
The annual Diplomatic Charity Gala Dinner, organized by the Embassy of Nigeria and the Diplomatic Foundation, was held Wednesday in Rabat, under the chairmanship of Princess Lalla Hasnaa. The event, placed under the high patronage of King Mohammed VI, brings together generous patrons, businessmen and artists around the Foreign Diplomatic Corps accredited to Morocco. The […]
Faithful to its unwavering commitment to the development of South-South cooperation, Morocco has just signed with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) an agreement on the safeguarding and protection of the intangible culture in Africa. This cooperation agreement, the first of its kind, was signed this Tuesday, November 29, 2022 in Rabat […]
Cultural life in Morocco has turned the Covid-19 page with main cities bustling with festivals bringing together artists from all corners of the world and confirming Morocco’s standing as an arts hub and an oasis of cultural openness in a region beset by insecurity and turmoil. In Marrakech, curtain fell on the 19th edition […]
Prince Moulay Rachid, President of the Marrakesh International Film Festival Foundation, gives a warm welcome back to the movie-lovers from around the world to the festival which opens doors this Friday after a two-year pause due to Covid-19 restrictions. “After a two-year absence due to the pandemic, we are pleased to welcome you again for […]
Changing weather patterns are wreaking havoc on East Africa’s wildlife and placing the region’s people at greater risk too. As the planet warms, the natural wonder and one of the greatest spectacles of animal migration on earth — hundreds of thousands of wild animals making their annual trek from Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park into the […]
Workers including teachers in 15 Ghanaian public universities declared a strike Monday over their allowance disputes with the government, XiHua news agency reports. The strikes were declared by four labor unions of public universities which denounced variation of their conditions of service by the government. The unions in a statement said their leadership has since […]