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Morocco’s Foreign minister Nasser Bourita conducted a dense series of bilateral and multilateral engagements on Sept 21 in New York on the sidelines of the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly. The highlight of the day was a high-level meeting with Chilean Foreign Minister Francisco Pérez Mackenna, held in the presence of Chilean […]
Morocco has called for strengthening an international response to the challenges posed by Non-State Armed Groups and reiterated its condemnation of such groups. The call was launched by Minister of Foreign Affairs Nasser Bourita, during a high-level event on the “Challenges Posed by Non-State Armed Groups,” organized by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) on the […]
Chile has formally recognized Morocco’s sovereignty over the entire territory of the Kingdom, including the Sahara region, and endorsed the 2007 Autonomy Plan as the just, lasting and mutually acceptable political solution to the dispute. The position was outlined in a joint communiqué issued following talks held in New York on the sidelines of the […]
As Moroccan voters prepare to head to the polls on September 23 for legislative elections, the country’s political parties confront the critical challenge of engaging the youth in political life while restoring public trust in the political process. Young Moroccans, who form a significant share of the population, remain largely absent from the electoral rolls. […]
An independent evaluation of Morocco’s Pioneer Schools program has found it continues to produce learning gains of ‘exceptional magnitude,’ even as it is rolled out at national scale. The assessment, by the Morocco Innovation and Evaluation Lab (MEL), a collaboration between Mohammed VI Polytechnic University and MIT’s J-PAL, covered roughly 36,000 students across 483 schools, […]
Morocco is preparing an overhaul of its social and solidarity economy sector through a draft framework law, now open for public consultation on the website of the Secretariat-General of the Government ahead of its passage through parliament. Carried by the ministry in charge of Handicrafts and the Social and Solidarity Economy, the bill aims to […]
Morocco’s avocado export campaign opens this year in an unprecedented competitive landscape for the European market, with five major producing countries expected to supply Europe simultaneously through the winter, according to an analysis by Moroccan exporter Unique Packing. Combined shipments from Chile, Colombia, Israel, Spain and Morocco could reach roughly 500 million kilograms between weeks […]
Morocco’s Royal Armed Forces have expanded their AH-64E Apache attack helicopter fleet to 18 aircraft following delivery of a new batch of six airframes from Boeing’s Mesa, Arizona facility, transported aboard US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III airlifters. The delivery follows earlier tranches received in March 2025 and spring 2026, and forms part of a […]
Tamwilcom has received the World Bank’s highest rating, ‘Highly Satisfactory,’ for its Innov Invest Fund, nearly a decade after the program’s launch to finance and support Moroccan startups. Launched in 2017 with financial and technical backing from the World Bank, the fund is implemented by Tamwilcom on behalf of the Ministry of Economy and Finance […]
Morocco’s Ministry of Equipment and Water is launching a study of 10 major dams to measure sediment accumulated in their reservoirs and update their real storage capacity, following an exceptional rainy season that sharply raised fill levels at several facilities. The exercise, announced via the ministry’s ‘Mâa Dialna’ platform, aims to determine how much usable […]