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King Mohammed VI receives credentials of several ambassadors newly accredited to Morocco

King Mohammed VI received, Monday at the Royal Palace in Rabat, several foreign ambassadors, who handed the Sovereign their letters of credentials as plenipotentiary and extraordinary ambassadors of their countries to the Kingdom. The heads of missions received by the Sovereign are Denmark’s ambassador Jesper Kammersgaard; Qatar’s ambassador Sheikh Abdullah Bin Thamer Mohammed Thani Al […]

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King Mohammed VI expresses Morocco’s readiness to bolster brotherly, age-old ties with Guinea

King Mohammed VI has sent a message of congratulations to President of the Transition, Head of State of Guinea, Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya, on his country’s National Day, wherein he expressed Morocco’s readiness to bolster the brotherly and age-old ties binding the two countries.   “I would like to express the high regard I have for […]

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Morocco’s King presides over a religious ceremony in commemoration of Eid Al-Mawlid Al-Nabawi Acharif

King Mohammed VI, Commander of the Faithful, accompanied by Crown Prince Moulay El Hassan, Prince Moulay Rachid, Prince Moulay Ahmed, and Prince Moulay Ismail, presided over a religious ceremony on Wednesday evening at the Hassan Mosque in Rabat, in commemoration of Eid Al-Mawlid Al-Nabawi Acharif. This religious ceremony was marked by the recitation of verses […]

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Morocco’s King calls on government to review family code

King Mohammed VI, Commander of the Faithful, has launched the process of reforming the Family Code to keep pace with the changes taking place in the country and Moroccan society wherein tradition and modernity go hand in hand. In a Letter addressed to Head of Govt., the Monarch sets a six-month deadline for submitting the […]

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Morocco’s King offers condolences to Sovereign of Bahrain over soldiers’ death

Mohammed VI has sent a message of condolences and sympathy to the King Hamad Ben Issa Al Khalifa of Bahrain, following the death of two Bahraini soldiers while they were fulfilling their Arab solidarity duty in defending the sovereignty of Yemen. In this message, the Sovereign expressed to the King of Bahrain, and through him […]

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Morocco’s king orders earthquake reconstruction program worth $12 bln

King Mohammed VI of Morocco chaired a third meeting to follow up the implementation of the reconstruction after the earthquake ordering speeding up in implementing a program worth 120 billion dirhams ($12 billion) in the six quake-struck regions. The program will span over a five-year period covering the six provinces affected by the earthquake: Marrakech, […]

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Morocco’s King thanks heads of state who sent earthquake rescue teams

King Mohammed VI thanked the heads of state of the UAE, Qatar, Spain, and the UK for the contribution of their rescue teams in the relief efforts after the earthquake. Morocco accepted aid from the four countries following a 7- magnitude earthquake that left around 3000 deaths and destroyed whole villages in the High Atlas […]

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US President praises, in phone call with King Mohammed VI, the swift, efficient management of earthquake

King Mohammed VI received a phone call from the President of the United States of America, Joseph R. Biden, on Monday. During the call, the US president expressed his personal condolences, as well as those of the American people and government, to the Sovereign and to the Moroccan people, following the painful earthquake that struck […]

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Morocco slams storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque

Morocco, whose King Mohammed VI chairs the Al-Quds Committee, condemns the storming of the Al Aqsa Mosque by a group of extremists, a source at the ministry of Foreign Affairs said. These acts of escalation are likely to stir up feelings and undermine appeasement efforts in the occupied Palestinian territories, the same source pointed out. […]

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Earthquake: King Mohammed VI expresses thanks to the rescue teams from Qatar, Spain, the UAE, the UK

King Mohammed VI has sent messages of thanks and gratitude to the leaders of the British, Qatari, Emirati, and Spanish rescue teams who have assisted with search and rescue efforts in the regions affected by the September 8 earthquake that struck Morocco. In separate messages to National Coordinator of the British International Search and Rescue […]