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The African Development Bank has agreed to provide Morocco four loans totaling over €600 million to enable the North African Kingdom build a 105-km long highway, enhance territorial competitiveness, modernize the university, and support sustainable forest development. The agreements were signed Wednesday in Rabat by Minister in charge of the budget Fouzi Lekjaa and the […]
The Moroccan government has pledged to work with China and African countries to ensure success to the China-Africa Cooperation forum scheduled in Beijing in September. The pledge was made by Morocco’s top diplomat Nasser Bourita during talks held Wednesday in Rabat with Chinese Special Envoy for the Middle East Zhai Jun. The Chinese official said […]
Morocco is the third most targeted country with fake news, mostly spread by Algerian media, behind war-torn Palestine and Yemen, fact-checking platform Misbar reported. Al Misbar cited fake news published by media close to the Algerian regime claiming Morocco sent troops to back Israel in its war on Gaza, among other lies. Since Algeria unilaterally […]
The thousand years of Mediterranean culture and historical collaborations between Morocco, Spain, and Portugal could today serve as a stimulus for a new wave of shared cooperation, Spanish Institute for Governance and Applied Economics Coordenadas pointed out. In an analysis published this week, the prestigious research center highlighted the “great potential” for the developing partnership […]
The US State Department welcomed Morocco’s efforts to counter human trafficking in its 2024 Trafficking in Persons Report. Morocco’s crackdown on human trafficking enabled it to integrate tier 2 category of countries that made significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA). Tunisia was listed among the least performing […]
Morocco believes in the need for the UN to have an active role in endowing legitimacy to any political process that would put an end to the conflict in Libya, foreign minister Nasser Bourita said. The call for an active UN involvement in Libya was made following talks in Rabat with Stephanie Khoury, the UN’s […]
Morocco, with its “long history of intercultural coexistence,” and outstanding international presence plays a key role in promoting East-West dialogue as well as peace and stability, stressed the Spanish Institute for Governance and Applied Economics Coordenadas. “Morocco’s commitment to moderation and religious tolerance made it a key partner for countries in both regions in the […]
The summer season kicked off in Morocco with a panoply of summer music festivals that offer different tastes of an authentic north African Kingdom open to the rest of the World. In the capital of lights, Rabat, at least 2.5 million music lovers attended the concerts in 6 stages during nine days of the festival […]
Morocco’s research institute in renewable energies (IRSEN) and France’s SATT Paris-Saclay, which promotes technology transfer, in addition to the French Development Agency (AFD) signed in Rabat this week an agreement to support Franco-Moroccan applied research projects in the field of green hydrogen. Under this agreement, the AFD has donated €800,000 to this partnership that aims […]
The World bank will contribute to the reform of Morocco’s public institutions & enterprises with a $350 million financing. The financing agreement was signed Thursday in Rabat by Minister of Economy and Finance, Nadia Fettah, and Director of the Maghreb and Malta Department of the World Bank, Jesko Hentschel. During the signing ceremony, Nadia Fettah […]