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The city of Rabat has been designated as the cultural capital of the Islamic world for the year 2022, announced, Friday, Director General of the Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ICESCO), Salem Ben Mohamed El Malek. The announcement was made at a joint press conference with Minister of Youth, Culture and Communication, Mohamed […]
Morocco will provide venues for seven African countries for the next matches of FIFA 2022 World Cup qualifiers as they lack professional stadiums meeting world football governing body’s standards. Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Sudan, Djibouti and Mozambique host their opponents for coming fixtures. Moulay Abdellah complex in Rabat will host Guinea vs Sudan while […]
Zambia opened on October 24 its embassy to Rabat in a move that signals a willingness to further boost ties with Morocco at all levels. The embassy was opened during a visit to Rabat by Zambia’s Joseph Malanji who told the press, on the sidelines of the inauguration ceremony, that the embassy will serve as […]
Morocco and Ethiopia are looking into ways of speeding up the implementation of the “Coalition for Access to Sustainable Energy”, an initiative launched by the two African countries during the Climate Action summit convened last year in New York. The initiative, which aims to ensure full access to energy for the least developed and other […]
Morocco’s capital city, Rabat, has been added to the list of the Islamic world heritage during the 11th Islamic conference of Culture Ministers convened in Tunis Dec.17-18 by the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO). It is a recognition of the historic and civilizational status, which Rabat boasts under the leadership of King Mohammed […]
The Moroccan capital city Rabat will play host to a set of matches during the inaugural Basketball Africa League (BAL) regular season to kick off for the first time on the continent. Rabat, Cairo (Egypt), Dakar (Senegal), Lagos (Nigeria), Luanda (Angola), and either Monastir or Tunis (Tunisia) were chosen Wednesday in Dakar by BAL to […]
Police agents at Tanger-Med Port foiled on Saturday an ecstasy trafficking operation. Policemen seized a total of 568,000 ecstasy pills that were aboard an international cargo truck registered in Morocco and coming from the port of Algeciras, Spain, national police said in a statement. The truck’s driver and his assistant, aged 48 and 26, respectively, […]
King Mohammed VI visited, on Monday, several projects launched in 2014 by the Sovereign to rehabilitate and upgrade the old medina of Rabat, Morocco’s capital city. The royal visit shows the importance the Monarch grants to the conservation of the architectural identity of the Rabat medina, a UNESCO world heritage site, the promotion of its […]
Rabat has suspended a twining agreement with Guatemala city after the latter’s diplomatic services recognized Jerusalem as capital of Israel. In moving its embassy to Jerusalem, Guatemala was the second country after the US to violate international law. In reaction, Rabat’s city council decided by an unanimous vote to suspend the twining agreement with Guatemala […]
Morocco’s imperial cities of Rabat, Fez and Marrakech will get a new revamp with the implementation of a 1.4 billion program aiming at increasing the attractiveness of their centuries-old medinas (old town). The program, unveiled at a ceremony chaired by King Mohammed VI in Rabat, aims at upgrading the old medinas in order to unlock […]