In its seventh edition, the 2019 World Happiness report revealed that Moroccans are getting less cheerful. Released on the International Day of Happiness, the report ranks the Kingdom 89th after it was 85th last year.
Moroccan phosphate exporter OCP announced that its 2018 full-year profit grew by 19 percent to 5.4 billion dirhams, reports British news agency Reuters. The company said in its preliminary annual results, Wednesday, that its revenue moved by 15 percent, reaching 55.9 billion dirhams, due to «steady demand and higher prices in international markets», the same source added. OCP revealed that its earnings accounted for 30.5 percent in 2018, 26.2 percent more than what was registered
The names of the Moroccan representatives expected to attend the second round-table, convened by the UN personal envoy to Western Sahara, were revealed, Wednesday, by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. In a communiqué sent to Yabiladi, the ministry announced that the names of the delegation's members remained unchanged, compared to the first round-table that took place in December, 2018. The Moroccan delegation led by Nasser Bourita, minister of Foreign
According to two recent studies, prehistoric migration impacted the genetic history of the Iberian Peninsula. Findings suggest that North Africans called Iberia home more than 4,000 years ago.
The National Assembly of Venezuela, presided by self-declared President Juan Guaido, announced, Tuesday, in a plenary session the name of Caracas’ new ambassador to Morocco. Venezuala’s newly appointed ambassador to the Kingdom is Jose Ignacio Guedez, Secretary General of the Venezuelan party La Causa R, a left-wing political formation. Born in 1977, Guedez is a lawyer, specialized in governance and political management. He was part of the Venezuelan opposition delegation which,
Ten days after Rabat hosted the 14th session of the Parliamentary Union of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Member States, Morocco broke silence on Iran’s absence. The Kingdom’s parliament speaker believes that «Tehran disrespected the session’s rules».
UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers Diego Garcia Sayan announced, Tuesday, that he has canceled his visit to Morocco, initially scheduled from March the 20th to the 26th. «When a state does not facilitate things, it is no longer possible to conduct a mission», he wrote on his Twitter account. Tuve que cancelar la misión sobre independencia judicial a Marruecos que empezaba hoy. Cuando un Estado no da las facilidades adecuadas no es serio llevar
In a 44-minute audio recording, Abu Hassan al-Muhajir, the spokesperson of the terrorist group known as ISIS, called for retaliations after the terrorist attacks that killed 50 Muslim worshippers and injured 50 others in Christchurch, New Zealand, reports the New York Times. «The scenes of the massacres in the two mosques should wake up those who were fooled, and should incite the supporters of the caliphate to avenge their religion», al-Muhajir said after six months of
After Italian authorities announced that a Moroccan model, who is involved in the «bunga bunga» case, might have been poisoned, Italian-Moroccan politician Souad Sbai linked her death to «Moroccan sorcery» and the Kingdom’s embassy in Rome. The latter is suing the former MP for her «defamatory statement».
The original live video filmed and shared by the Christchurch attacks’ terrorist was watched 4,000 times before Facebook deleted it, the social media platform said. The footage which depicted the terrorist attack, showing the Australian terrorist opening fire on Muslim worshippers, was reported to Facebook only 12 minutes after the live stream ended, reports BBC. After it was removed by Facebook, the 17-minute video kept surfacing on the social media platform. A copy of the footage,