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Morocco is about to draw a roadmap for the exploration of marine current energy, announced the Minister of Energy. A specialized commission, including representatives of the energy and mining departments, the Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy (MASEN), the National Office of Electricity and Drinking Water (ONEE), and the Solar Energy and New Energies Research Institute […]
Morocco will launch, in the coming weeks, a massive vaccination operation against Covid-19 to end the acute phase of the pandemic. This unprecedented nationwide operation aims to provide the population with a vaccine as an appropriate immunization means against the virus and controlling its spread, said the Royal Office in a statement issued after […]
King Mohammed VI has underlined the growing international support to Morocco’s autonomy plan offered for the Sahara for a lasting resolution of this regional conflict. “Moroccan Autonomy Initiative… is backed by the Security Council and the influential powers as the sole normal course of action for the settlement of this dispute”, said the Monarch in […]
King Mohammed VI expressed firm commitment to make the Sahara an engine of development at the regional and continental levels through, inter alia, tapping into its maritime potential. In this respect, “Morocco has this year completed the demarcation of its maritime boundaries and incorporated them into its legislation, in keeping with international law,” said the […]
King Mohammed VI has underlined Saturday evening that Morocco will respond, with the utmost firmness and resolve, to any practices or attempts designed to undermine the security and stability of its southern provinces. In a speech he delivered on the occasion of the celebration of the 45th anniversary of the Green March, King Mohammed VI […]
The speech King Mohammed VI was due to deliver this Friday on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the Green March has been postponed to Saturday November 7. The announcement was made in a statement by the Ministry of the Royal Household, Protocol and Chancellery, which said that following the discovery of a positive […]
The Moroccan government has welcomed the cease-fire agreement signed lately by the Libyan warring factions in Geneva under the United Nations auspices. This is a “very positive development” and “very good news”, said Moroccan foreign minister Nasser Bourita at a joint press briefing held on Saturday in Rabat with Speaker of the Libyan House of […]
Moroccan foreign minister Nasser Bourita stressed the pre-eminence of the UN-brokered agreement in Skhirate in 2015 as a political way out of the Libyan in-fighting. The Skhirate Agreement should serve as a basis for political talks between the Libyan rivals, Bourita told the press after talks in Rabat with head of Libya’s High Council of […]
The Moroccan government plans an increase in public investments to 230 billion dirhams and an injection of 45 billion dirhams to help the economy recover from the coronavirus pandemic repercussions. The measure was laid down in a draft budget law approved at a ministerial council chaired by King Mohammed VI at the Royal Palace in […]
King Mohammed VI chaired a ministerial meeting in Rabat Wednesday during which details were provided about the latest developments on an anti-COVID-19 vaccine currently developed by China. During the meeting, Health Minister Khaled Ait Taleb said that there is regular contact with the companies working on the vaccine as well as with the Chinese government, […]