Morocco’s economy finances costs will rise if state-owned companies don’t control their external borrowing spree, reported Bloomberg quoting the country’s planning agency. Chief planner Ahmed Lahlimi told the American magazine that «strict vigilance is in order today», warning against the «external debt of public companies that has started to slightly surpass the government’s». According to the same source, state-run companies’
The United Nations Economic and Social Council elected, on Thursday, by acclamation, Morocco's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York Omar Hilale vice-president of the body on behalf of the African continent, reports MAP news agency. The decision will enable the Kingdom to chair one of the key segments in the council, namely : Integration, humanitarian affairs, operational activities for development and management meetings for the ECOSOC. The Moroccan diplomat will
Le conseil de gouvernement, réuni jeudi à Rabat, a adopté un projet de décret modifiant le décret portant application de la loi relative au régime de l'assurance maladie obligatoire (AMO) de base des étudiants, a indiqué le ministre délégué chargé des Relations avec le parlement et la société civile, porte-parole du gouvernement, Mustapha El Khalfi. Présenté par le ministre de
American expatriate, diplomat and founder of the notorious Rick’s Café Kathy Kriger passed away, Thursday 26th of July, wrote the US Embassy on its Twitter account. Kriger has been living in Morocco since 1998. She was working as a commercial counselor for the U.S. Embassy in Rabat but decided three years later to quit her job and live the Moroccan dream. So in love with the Kingdom, the retired diplomat had the idea of recreating a café that appeared in one of the
Le premier groupe de pèlerins marocains s’est rendu, jeudi, à destination des Lieux Saints de l’Islam pour y accomplir le rite du pèlerinage au titre de l’année 1439 de l’hégire (2018). Dans une déclaration à la presse à cette occasion, le ministre des Habous et des affaires islamiques, Ahmed Toufiq a indiqué que 32 000 pèlerins marocains vont accomplir le pèlerinage au titre de cette
A 22-year-old Moroccan national, living in the Netherlands, is facing deportation because of his criminal record. The young man has been sentenced in 2012 for being involved in a mob murder of a football linesman after a youth game in Almere in December of the same year, says Dutch online newspaper DutchNews. According to the same source, the Netherlands National Press Agency (ANP) reported that the Immigration & Naturalization Service (IND) had told the man two years ago that his
In a letter relayed by El Pueblo de Ceuta, Spanish journalist José Luis Navazo who is also the publishing director of online newspaper Correo Diplomático, addresses Moroccan Minister of State in charge of Human Rights, Mustapha Ramid. In his open letter, the journalist writes to «his dear friend Ramid» denouncing his «unexplained and surprising» expulsion from Morocco on the evening of July 25th of 2017. Navazo says he still does not know why he
Le nombre d'incendies de forêts enregistrés du 1er janvier au 25 juillet 2018 a diminué de 55%, comparativement à la même période de l'année dernière, de 57% par rapport aux trois dernières années et de 60% par rapport à la moyenne des 10 dernières années, a souligné le Haut-Commissariat aux Eaux et forêts et à la lutte contre la désertification (HCEFLCD). Durant ces mêmes
Le résultat net part du groupe (RNPG) BMCE Bank of Africa s’est situé à 2,036 milliards de dirhams (MMDH) en 2017, soit au même niveau historique atteint en 2016, selon l’édition 2017 du rapport annuel du groupe. Sur le plan des réalisations financières consolidées, le produit net bancaire s’est élevé à 13,368 MMDH en 2017 contre 12,990 MMDH en 2016, soit une progression de 3% par rapport à
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) rejected on Thursday, 19th of July, a complaint lodged by the Polisario Front to put an end to the EU-Morocco fisheries agreement, concluded in December 2013. The CJEU’s decision, published on its website, dismisses the Front’s action as inadmissible. It also recalls that the Front does not have standing to act against these agreements. Moreover, the EU Court ordered Brahim Ghali to cover the court costs. For the record, the Front