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Moroccans coming from across the country and from abroad flocked to Rabat this Tuesday to welcome the Atlas Lions upon their return home after their mesmerizing participation in the Qatar 2022 World cup. The fans started gathering along the itinerary to be taken by the team hours before the team’s plane landed at Rabat-Sale airport. […]
Morocco’s central bank has decided to raise its key rate by 50 basis points to 2.5pc due to inflation upward trends and external pressures that spread to non-tradable goods and services and to the implementation of the subsidy system reform starting 2024. During last quarterly meeting held Tuesday in Rabat, the Board of Bank Al-Maghrib […]
The EU’s carbon tax, agreed recently, is a chance for Moroccan industry operators to enhance their competitiveness. “We should not look at this measure as a burden on our industries. It is rather an advantage to overcome competition,” Minister of Industry and trade Ryad Mezzour told local media le360. EU governments reached a deal over […]
Morocco’s Atlas Lions made history at the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup, being the first African and Arab team to have ever reached the semi-finals of the most popular sport event in the world. The reasons explaining this wonderful journey of the Moroccans are multiple and various and might vary from an expert to an […]
Some famous Western media outlets displayed abject racism when Qatar Emir draped a Gulf bisht over the shoulders of Argentina’s star Lionel Messi as he was about to lift the World Cup. In a live comment on this action, Estelle Denis and Stephane Guy of France’s BFM TV said they were shocked, unleashing a spate […]
Preparations for the COP28 (Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change), scheduled to take place in Dubai in late 2023, were at the centre of talks, Monday in Rabat, between the Minister of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development, Leila Benali and visiting UAE Minister of Industry and Advanced Technologies, Sultan […]
A fire outbreak has destroyed the headquarters of the European Union (EU) Commission in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, making no casualties. Douglas Darius Carpenter, head of the mission Tweeted the fire broke out on Sunday. No one was wounded. Bienvenu Zokoué, the Chief of the domestic security of the African country, said […]
Immigration restrictions between citizens of East African Community (EAC) member states could derail the efforts by the bloc to align with the continental free trade policies, according to new data prepared by the African Development Bank (AfDB). The report released by the AfDB and African Union Commission on Sunday shows that while the EAC is […]
Business from the United States and different African countries announced nearly 15 new commitments during last week’s US-Africa Leaders Summit, in fields ranging from mining to healthcare to basketball. One of the biggest deals made at the summit was an investment by US-based Kobold Metals, which will be “a commitment of over $150 million dollars […]
The COP15 biodiversity summit’s historic agreement to protect 30% of land and water important for biodiversity by 2030, designed to halt its loss was welcomed by many, while others, including the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), argue that it does not go far enough in supporting conservation efforts in developing countries. Countries have reached the […]