Thales, a French multinational company that builds electrical systems and provides services for the aerospace, said it would inaugurate its industrial Competence Centre in Casablanca, a 3D metal printing plant, Arabian Aerospace reported today. According to the same source, the «plant will become a platform allowing the international requirements of the group and its customers to be met». The Center is part of the Industrial Acceleration Plan 2014-2020 initiated by the government.
Several passengers on the Metro in Madrid, Spain defended on Wednesday a Moroccan couple who have been racially assaulted by a man. The incident took place at around 11. 45 at the República Argentina station on Line 6, RadioMadrid reports today. Annoyed and frightened by the man’s insults, several passengers have asked him to leave the metro. In a short video published by the same source, the man urged the Moroccan couple to leave Madrid saying : «We don’t want
Le ministre des Affaires étrangères et de la coopération internationale, Nasser Bourita, a eu, jeudi au département d'Etat à Washington, des entretiens avec le secrétaire d’Etat américain, Rex Tillerson. L’entretien a porté sur le partenariat stratégique multiforme entre Rabat et Washington, liés notamment par un accord de libre-échange entré en vigueur en 2006 et un dialogue stratégique
Nasser Bourita, the Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has held talks with Rex Tillerson, the USA current Secretary of State today, Thursday the 7th of September, at the Department of State in Washington DC, MAP news agency reports today. The two senior officials have shaken hands in a short video published by the American Department of State on Twitter. Secretary Rex Tillerson greets Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita @statedept in Washington, DC.
Wu-Tang Clan's «Once Upon a Time in Shaolin» album is for sale on eBay, France TV Info reported on Wednesday. Bought in 2015 by the controversial businessman Martin Shkreli, the album that had been recorded in Marrakech where members of the legendary American hip-hop band spent several months was produced in a single copy in its is stored in a silver box designed by a Moroccan craftsman. Its current owner, Martin Shkreli had bought it for two million dollars at the end of 2015. He
ENI, an Italian multinational oil and gas company headquartered in Roma and the operator of the Rabat Deep Offshore license has reportedly «secured the Saipem 12000, a sixth generation ultra-deepwater drillship, for a drilling programme to include a one-well drilling slot in Rabat Deep Offshore in Morocco», as indicated by Your Oil and Gas News, a news website focusing on industry. The same source indicates that ENI is «currently anticipated that the rig will arrive on
As we announced in July, the Court of Justice of the European Union examined a complaint against Morocco filed by an English association, the Western Sahara Campaign. The hearing at the CJEU's headquarters in Luxembourg, which lasted four hours, was attended by the lawyers of the complainant, the European Commission, France and Spain. The coordinator of the Front with MINURSO was also present, indicates a media of the separatist movement. At the end of this first hearing, the Court deferred
Two men, aged 36 and 47, were arrested yesterday in Kremlin Bicêtre, a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, for having 100 grams of Triacetone Triperoxide (TATP) explosives in their apartment. A third suspect was arrested afterwards as reported by EFE which quotes official sources. The French Interior Minister, Gérard Collomb said today in an interview with France Info that it is «possible» that this cell had been in contact with the terrorists that carried out
20 years after his death, Mobutu Sese Seko is still buried at the Christian cemetery of Rabat. He was the military dictator and President of Zaire, known nowadays as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Mobutu went into temporary exile in Togo but lived mostly in Morocco where he died on the 7th of September 1997. Visiting his grave in Rabat, the cemetery’s caretaker, Abu Fida, told AFP that «a lot of people come to visit the tomb. There are at least a dozen every day»
Le roi Mohammed VI a subi ce mercredi une intervention chirurgicale au centre hospitalier d’ophtalmologie des Quinze-Vingt à Paris, au service du professeur Jean Philippe Nordmann, indique un communiqué co-signé par le professeur Nordmann, chef de service et le professeur Abdelaziz Maaouni, médecin personnel du souverain. Le roi Mohammed VI présente un ptérygion de l’œil gauche qui s’étend sur la cornée.