Mehdi Bennani is helping build and design sets for movies and commercials in Hollywood. The Casablanca-native wants to help make Moroccans, Muslims and Arabs feel represented in films through his passion, production design.
The Italian government has given the green light to finance a feasibility study to build a pipeline for green hydrogen produced in Morocco. The pipeline will provide, via the port of Trieste, a logistics platform for energy raw materials distributed in central and Eastern Europe. The country's media reported that Democratic MP Deborah Ceracciani said that «one of these programs for the Mattei plan, which aims to analyze and strengthen the green hydrogen supply chain between Morocco and
Members of the Royal Moroccan Navy visited the San Fernando shipyard in Cadiz, Spain, to monitor the progress of construction works related to a patrol boat, ordered in January 2021 from Navantia. The military delegation was welcomed by the president of the Spanish public company, reports media in Cadiz. The construction of the patrol boat began in July 2023. The contract represents one million hours of work and will provide employment to 250 employees at the shipyard for more
At the beginning of 1937, France knew about German ambitions in Morocco, and moved diplomatically to prevent Berlin from sending 3,000 soldiers to Ceuta, and asked Britain to support it militarily, in the face of Germany, supported by Spain and Italy.
Local authorities in Casablanca proceeded, in the early hours of Friday, to demolish substandard housing erected next to the mausoleum of Sidi Abderrahmane near Ain Diab. Ten days ago, city's local authorities have ordered people residing in these slums to evacuate them at once. These houses are mainly occupied by people who practice fraudulent and dubious medical practices as well as witchcraft. On social media, many have called on local authorities to put and end to the
Walid Regragui is facing his second challenge as he leads the Morocco national football team at the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon), to be held in the upcoming days in Cote d’Ivoire. His first challenge as an Atlas Lions coach was that of accepting to manage the team only three months before the World Cup and yet end up as a semi-finalist. «I think that only a crazy coach like me would accept this job three months before the World cup», Regragui told CNN in an interview
The Moroccan Liaison Office in Tel Aviv announced that it will begin providing all consular services, as demands to stop normalization keep increasing. «The Liaison Office of the Kingdom of Morocco in Tel Aviv informs all Moroccan citizens residing in Israel and foreigners who want to submit an entry visa application to Morocco that it will start, as of January 22, 2024, providing consular services», reads a statement by the Moroccan
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune chaired, Wednesday January 10, a meeting of the High Security Council of Algeria, «devoted to examining the general situation in the country and the security situation linked to neighboring countries and the Sahel», reads a press release relayed by the local media. «The High Security Council regrets the hostile actions against Algeria, emanating from a brother Arab country» in the region, but without naming it. Before this
Morocco has joined the Integrated Industrial Partnership for Sustainable Economic Development, which brings together the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Jordan and Bahrain. A memorandum of understanding in this regard was signed, on January 11, 2024, in Manama, by the members of the coalition during the body’s fourth high-level ministerial meeting, attended by the Ministers of Industry of the four countries, as well as Ryad Mezzour, Moroccan Minister of Industry and Commerce. «The
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) heard, Thursday, arguments on the case that Israel is committing genocide in its war on Gaza. It is day one in the lawsuit filed in December by South Africa. The legal team of South Africa is heard by the ICJ panel, which includes 15 judges elected by the UN General Assembly and Security Council for nine years. One of the ICJ judges is Moroccan Mohamed Bennouna. Elected for the first time as an ICJ judge in February 2006, the Marrakech-born was