French-Moroccan boxer Nordine Oubaali, WBC bantamweight world champion, will defend his title against Japan’s Takuma Inoue on November 7, Boxing Today says. «I think it’s a good fight for me to make me known by a new audience, [Takuma Inoue] is a boxer who moves a lot, he is fast», said Nordine Oubaali to Boxing Today. «This fight will be an explosive fight. I will give my fans what they all expect of me. My training always changes when we compare the skill and
Morocco is able to resume the reforms towards a more flexible exchange rate regime at the first sign of an external shock, such as a surge in oil prices, said Bank Al-Maghrib Governor Abdellatif Jouahri on Friday during an interview in Washington organized by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), says the media Bloomberg. The country paused the reforms for a more flexible exchange rate at the beginning of the year, due to efforts in 2018 to correct the deterioration of its finances. After the
A new mural depicting a young Moroccan man dressed in a mix of traditional Moroccan and contemporary Chicago clothing now adorns the Columbia Dance School, «linking two sister cities and blending Moroccan and Chicago cultures together», The Columbia Chronicle says. «The inspiration comes from the new generation», Moroccan artist Younes Amriss – also known as DYNAM said. «Morocco is my first inspiration; [the mural] is a mix of modern cultures», he
He is a 40-year-old French-Moroccan who has been living in Angola for almost twenty years. He started a company in the real estate industry and he is today a connoisseur of the market and the Angolan system.
While stepping on the Moon for the first time, members of the Apollo 11 mission left a message of 73 leaders on the satellite. The message included a statement of King Hassan II, in which he saluted «the great brotherhood of men».
A British Airways flight, linking London’s Gatwick airport to that of Marrakech, was forced to make an emergency landing at the Porto airport in Portugal on Thursday, October 17. According to the Daily Mail and The Sun, the Airbus A230 was carrying 167 passengers. A British Airways spokesperson said that the pilot «had decided to divert as a precaution due to a technical issue». «We're very sorry for the delay to our customers' journeys after our aircraft diverted as a
The United States Army Africa, an Army service component command of United States Africa Command, is having big plans for «African Lion», a military exercise held in Morocco, Tunisia, Senegal and Spain. The body is planning to make the exercise «the biggest on the African continent in spring 2020», Army Times reports. Although the US Marine Corps Forces Europe and Africa owned «African Lion» for 16 years, Army Africa is expected to «assume
Fossils found in Morocco show that animals developed a remarkable collective behavior 480 million years ago. These sea animals, which lived in the Kingdom, knew how to form orderly lines to mate and interact.
Morocco police expelled, Thursday, two Danish activists from Morocco’s southern provinces, one of the expelled activists told Spanish news agency EFE. Mille Neumann explained that she and Katinka Klinge Albrectsen arrived Wednesday night in Agadir on a flight from Copenhagen. They then took a bus to Laayoune, for a visit to Dakhla. When the bus reached on Thursday a checkpoint near Laayoune, the Moroccan police prevented the Global Action activists from entering the city.
Banque Centrale Populaire (BCP), one of Morocco’s biggest banks, announced on Thursday that it had acquired 71% stake in Banque de Madagascar et de l’Ocean Indien (BMOI) from Groupe BPCE, a French banking group, Reuters reports. The deal is part of BCP’s plan to reinforce its presence in Africa. Last week, the bank, which has subsidiaries in 30 countries around the world, bought a 100% stake in Banque Commerciale Internationale (BCI) in the Republic of Congo from the same