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Morocco and France have signed an action plan providing for strengthening cooperation relations in the judicial and technical fields, and promoting the exchange of expertise and best practices in legislative and legal reform. The plan, initialed by Justice Minister Abdellatif Ouahbi and his French counterpart Eric Dupond-Moretti, who is on a visit to Morocco, covers […]
Moroccan pharmacies start as of this June 1 selling legal cannabis products, notably food supplements and cosmetics, the pharmacies union (CSPM) said. In total, nine cannabis-based food supplements and ten cosmetic products will be available on pharmacy shelves after receiving the greenlight of regulators, Le360 cited CSPM sources. Producers could also sell independently in their […]
Japan has welcomed this Friday Morocco’s “serious and credible efforts” within the framework of the autonomy initiative to settle the Sahara issue. This position was expressed by Japan’s Foreign Minister, Yoko Kamikawa, during talks in Tokyo with her Moroccan peer Nasser Bourita, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Based on Japan’s “consistent” position, […]
As a growing number of giant Chinese companies chose to invest in Morocco for its political stability and competitive assets, the Algerian regime became extremely worried to see its neighboring country taking the lead and thriving while Algeria is lagging behind and sinking into the abyss. In a desperate move to address the situation, Algerian […]
Morocco expects to further cut its fiscal deficit from 4% in 2024 to 3.5% in 2025 and 3% in 2026, despite an increase in spending on social protection, Fouzi Lekjaa said. The deficit was at 7.1% when the government took office in 2021, at a context marked by a recovery from the economic impact of […]
Morocco plans to increase its car production capacity from 700,000 cars currently to 1 million next year and 1.4 million in four years, industry minister Ryad Mezzour said. “The goal is to reach a capacity to produce 1.4 million cars within the next four years, given the existence of the electrical car sector which will […]
A partnership agreement providing for the opening of two Oracle Cloud regions in Morocco was inked, Wednesday in Marrakech, between the U.S. technology group Oracle and the Moroccan ministry of Digital Transition and Administration Reform, the ministry of Investment, Convergence and Evaluation of Public Policies, and the Moroccan Agency for Investment and Export Development (AMDIE). […]
Morocco was re-elected, in the person of Mahjoub El Haiba, to the UN Human Rights Committee, during the elections held on Wednesday in New York, on the occasion of the 40th Meeting of States Parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Morocco, which was in the race along fifteen other candidates for […]
The prospects for developing economic and commercial exchanges between Morocco and China were reviewed by the two countries’ Foreign Ministers at a meeting held Wednesday in Beijing. Visiting Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita and his Chinese peer Wang Yi, focused in their talks on the opportunities offered by Morocco’s global trade, through the encouragement of Chinese […]
Morocco’s Ambassador to the UN, Omar Hilale, highlighted, in Saint John’s in Antigua and Barbuda, King Mohammed VI’s vision of South-South cooperation in favor of island states, a vision that is based on solidarity. This came in an address he made on Tuesday at the 4th international conference on small island developing states, held May […]