First Independent Mena Newspaper
King Mohammed VI announced Monday the setting up by next fall of an ad-hoc committee for the development model that will make proposals and suggestions on how to improve the development reforms and increase their effectiveness. In a speech he delivered Monday evening on Throne Day, marking this year the 20th anniversary of his enthronement, […]
The new development model for the southern provinces ushered by King Mohammed VI has geared investments in infrastructure that aim at making of the Sahara a hub for Sub-Saharan Africa. In total, $7 billion were allocated to the Marshall plan for the Southern provinces over the 2016 – 2023 period. The 683 projects planned for […]
Since taking the throne in 1999, King Mohammed VI promoted women empowerment, gender equality and women rights through a series of initiatives covering the political, social and economic fields. He set the course for women’s status promotion in one of his first speeches when he said how can we hope to achieve progress and prosperity […]
Morocco’s gross domestic product per capita more than doubled in the last two decades of the reign of King Mohammed VI who made of fighting poverty a priority. The GDP per capita grew from 1460 dollars twenty years ago to about 3090 dollars currently, according to World Bank figures. Poverty rate dropped to 4% of […]
Since he took the reign twenty years ago, King Mohammed VI has attached utmost priority to protecting and promoting human rights while closing the chapter of past rights violations through a large-scale reconciliation process. The creation of the justice and reconciliation commission in 2003 was a major event during which victims spoke about the violations. […]
King Mohammed VI expressed deep sorrow at the demise of President Béji Caïd Essebsi that he described as “one of the great men of Tunisia”. In a message of condolences to speaker of the parliament Mohamed Ennaceur- who was later in the day sworn-in as interim President- King Mohammed VI said he was deeply […]
In his quality as leader in charge of preparing the African Agenda on Migration, King Mohammed VI led efforts at the African level in favor of a human-based approach to migration that goes beyond narrow calculations building on the success of a migrants legalization policy at home that won prize internationally. Thanks to its forward-looking […]
Since his accession to the throne in 1999, King Mohammed VI has consolidated the policy led by the late King Hassan II to provide the Kingdom with water infrastructures to meet citizens’ needs. Thus, in 20 years, many dams of different sizes have been built. The goal to build fifteen dams in the period 2017-2021, […]
The new concept of authority laid down by King Mohammed VI since he took the reign in 1999 has underpinned all reforms launched in Morocco in the last two decades. The new authority concept paved the way for political and administrative reforms that put Morocco on track to meet the aspirations of citizens and address […]
The leadership of King Mohammed VI and his steadfast commitment to promoting the values of tolerance, inter-religious dialogue and coexistence at home and abroad stand as a distinctive feature of Morocco in the last two decades. The King’s Muslim authority as “Commander of the Faithful” and his lineal descent of the Prophet Mohammed gives him […]