Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria basketball national teams will battle tomorrow (Thursday) to earn their trip to FIBA Afro Basket 2017 Final Round in Congo-Brazzaville in August. The three North-African teams will play the first leg in Algeria from March 16-18. The second leg will follow in Tunisia from March 24-26. The first and second will be automatically qualified for the Final round held from the 19th to 30 of August. According to the FIBA.com, the Moroccan team will face his Algerian rival
CMA CGM shipping group has launched a new service between Agadir and Saint Petersburg. It will allow to deliver Moroccan fruits and vegetables to Russia in eight days.
Known as creative and alternative the young Lebanese Rock band Mashrou’ Leila will visit Morocco for a mini-tour in Rabat and Casablanca. The five-member band is scheduled to perform on the 21t of March at the Renaissance cinema in Rabat and on the 22d of the same month at Casablanca Studio des Arts Vivants. Lead by Hamed Sinno, the band’s lead singer, Mashrou’ Leila was formed in 2008 in Beirut, Lebanon as a music workshop at the American University of Beirut. The band made
Sound Energy upstream Gas Company has observed gas shows in the TE-8 well in the Tendrara drill located in the eastern regions of Morocco. The company has told investors that they have encountered gas shows onshore whilst drilling the TE-8 well. The information was published in the company’s website this morning (Wednesday), along with the statement of the company’s general meeting that reveales: “The Company is pleased to confirm the presence of a TAGI sand sequence,
A boulevard full of contradictions, a corner of the metropolitan city where you can find beauty at its finest and misery combined at once. It is Mohammed the fifth Boulevard, an iconic scene that witnessed several historical changes.
The Netherland is witnessing tomorrow Wednesday a big political day during which ,Greet Wilders; the anti-Muslim politician is going to face his half- Moroccan Dutch rival Jesse Klaver. Jesse leader of the Green Left, a new left-wing party, is campaigning for social equality and radical environmental change in the Netherland. The young candidate, as described by The Telegraph newspaper wants his Netherland back, an expressive statement that foreshadows Klaver’s aim to fight anti-Muslim
The Mercer quality of life ranking motor has released a list that includes Casablanca and Rabat as one of the cities that have the best quality of life in the world. Every year Mercer, the world’s largest HR consultancy firm, releases its quality of life index which examines the cities that provide the best quality of living. The ranking is carried out annually to provide multinational companies and employees with pieces of information about different cities. Nonetheless, the ranking
A delegation of Moroccan, Tunisian and Algerian journalists and bloggers is currently on a visit to Israel. The visit, according to the Facebook page of the Israeli foreign ministry named “Israel Speaks Arabic”, holds the aim of discovering the country and viewing first hand its situation. Members of the delegation visited yesterday all of Jerusalem, Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Yad Vashem memorial to perpetuate the memory of the Holocaust victims. The delegation plans to visit
According to the Moroccan Association for the Fight against AIDS, women are more likely to be carrying the virus of AIDS in Morocco. The information was published in the association’s report on women’s day last Wednesday. The report claims that amongst 24 thousands AIDS bearer 37 % are women. The number sounds a bit shocking compared to the nineties, when only 8 % of the virus bearers were women. The association have pointed out also that women are exposed to catching the disease
Moroccan Special Operation Forces have partnered with their American counterparts to share their communicational and medical skills during Operation Flintlock 2017. The operation is a campaign held in Morocco, most precisely, in Tifnit to train and exchange expertise with 2000 personnel from 24 allied nations. The exercise sponsored by the US Africa Command began on the 27th of February and will carry on till March the 16th according to FOFREP News online newspaper. The training aims to