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The Hilton Hotels & Resorts Group, which is expanding and enhancing its presence in Morocco, will build a new hotel in Rabat, capital of the North African Kingdom. The 150-room Hilton Rabat, to open in 2022, will be part of the city’s Wessal Bouregreg project. The Wessal Bouregreg master development has a range of residential, […]
Morocco and Portugal convene in Rabat this Monday their joint high level meeting to look into ways to boost cooperation ties between the two countries in all fields of common interest. This two-day encounter, chaired by the two countries’ Prime ministers, Saâd Eddine El Othmani and Antonio Costa, is expected to be crowned with the […]
King Mohammed VI has voiced determination to step up reforms related to local government and to the implementation of the flagship project of advanced regionalization. This landmark undertaking is “a key institutional achievement. It illustrates my unwavering commitment (…) to seeing a quantum leap in the reform and modernization of our institutions”, said the Moroccan […]
The Spanish group Planeta, one of the world’s leaders in publishing and higher education, has decided to open in Rabat, Morocco’s capital city, two schools for students wishing to be trained in the fields of business and tourism. The announcement was made Thursday by the group’s chairman Jose Manuel Garcia. The two schools, to open […]
The sound cooperation between Moroccan and Spanish security services in the fight against terrorism has led to the arrest of 175 jihadists, said interior minister Juan Ignacio Zoido. In a interview published lately by La Razon, the Spanish official described neighboring Morocco as “a friend, a partner and an ally” of Spain in the war […]
Thousands of Moroccans staged Sunday a peaceful demonstration in downtown Rabat to express solidarity with Al Hoceima inhabitants’ social claims. The protesters, between 15,000 (according to official numbers) and over 30,000 (according to the organizers), marched through the avenues of downtown Rabat, chanting slogans calling for meeting the social and economic demands of Al Hoceima’s […]
The Nigeria-Morocco huge gas pipeline project, agreed upon last year, is taking shape with the signing Monday in Rabat of additional agreements related to the pipeline that will stretch along the West African coast all the way up from Nigeria to Morocco and eventually into Europe. The agreements were signed at a ceremony chaired by […]
Australia has effectively established an embassy in Rabat and proceeded to the appointment of Berenice Owen-Jones first Australian resident Ambassador to Morocco. This was announced in a statement by Australia’s foreign Minister Julie Bishop. “Australia and Morocco enjoy close ties and celebrated the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations in 2016. We share strong people-to-people links, […]
Morocco and Spain will hold their 2nd forum on security and war against terrorism on May 19 in Rabat to look into ways of coordinating further actions against jihadists and extremists between the two neighboring countries in the region and worldwide. The first edition of the event was convened last year in Madrid. The 2nd […]
An International conference on Micro & Nano-Satellites will be held at “Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique (CNRST)” in Rabat, Morocco’s capital city, May 2-3 to discuss latest innovations in this high-tech industry. The MNSAT event will be attended by experts from major aerospace industries like IEEE Aerospace, Surrey Space Center and much […]