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Doha-based Cultural association Katara Cultural Village is presenting this December 14 – 16 the “Chinguetti Culture Week”, a culture event featuring a series of lectures on various aspects of ancient Mauritanian culture as well as a display of traditional Mauritanian dress and other artifacts and exhibits, The Peninsula Qatar reports. The Mauritanian Community Office in […]
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group, has approved a loan of €81.9 million to Tunisia to implement the Treated Wastewater Quality Improvement Project for Climate Resilience Building (PAQEE-RCC). The approval, the bank said on December 13, came at a meeting in Abidjan on 6 December. PAQEE-RCC will improve the treatment of […]
A new book entitled “Mohammed VI, a King’s Vision: Actions and Ambitions” was presented on Wednesday in Rabat by its author Jean-Marie Heydt. The book, emphasizing the dynamics of change initiated in various fields under the impetus of King Mohammed VI since his accession to the Throne in 1999, was presented at a meeting at […]
Morocco has won most of the 2023 Awards of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) rewarding the best African teams, coaches and players for their outstanding achievements and performance. In a ceremony held Monday in Marrakesh, Moroccan football team won the best men’s team award for their stunning performance at Qatar World Cup 2022. The […]
Emirati firms Metito Utilities and Tahliya have announced in Dubai plans to build two seawater desalination plants powered with renewable energy in the Moroccan Sahara. The announcement was made Thursday on the sidelines of COP28 currently held in the UAE. It comes after the Declaration signed by King Mohammed VI and Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed […]
Moroccan football prospered in 2022 and 2030 thanks to a carefully devised strategy that led the county to the quarter finals in Qatar’s World Cup and outstanding achievements in female soccer, futsal, U-17 and U-23, not to mention its successful bids to host the African Cup of Nations in 2025 and the World Cup in […]
Morocco’s Neo Motors said it released its cars in the market making the first delivery of a first car manufacturing company with Moroccan capital. Morocco is already Africa’s top car manufacturer thanks to investments by French carmakers Renault and Peugeot. Speaking at a ceremony marking the first car deliveries, Nassim Belkhayat, Neo Motors’s CEO, said […]
Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh was chosen to host the 2030 World Expo, the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) announced on Tuesday. Riyadh needed only one round of voting and secured the necessary two-thirds majority of member States at the general assembly of Paris-based BIE. Riyadh won 119 votes, South Korea’s Busan 29, and Italian capital Rome […]
The 2023 MEDays Grand Prize was awarded to Azali Assoumani, President of the Union of the Comoros and current Chairman of the African Union. This prize awarding comes in recognition of Assoumani’s leadership during his presidency of the pan-African institution, marked by the African Union’s membership of the G20. It also illustrates the fraternal and […]
Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo has called for a united front with African leaders on demands for reparations for transatlantic slavery and colonial-era damages, as they gathered on Tuesday (14 November) in Accra for a four-day conference that aims to explore how to address such historical injustices. Speaking at the opening session hosted by Ghana, its […]