Le documentaire «Le Grand ‘Petit Miloudi’, une échappée d'antan», réalisé par Leila El Amine Demnati, a été primé lors du Festival international du film panafricain, dont la 15ème édition s'est tenue la semaine dernière à Cannes en France. Co-écrit et coproduit par Leila El Amine Demnati et Abdelhamid Karim, ce film, qui documente l'histoire du cyclisme au Maroc sous protectorat, a ainsi
Morocco’s Royal Football Federation announced Wednesday, 25th of April, in a tweet that Ghana supports the Kingdom’s bid to host the 2026 World Cup. On Tuesday, April the 24th, the Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo, received a Confederation of Africa Football (CAF) delegation headed by CAF president Ahmed Ahmed, and head of the Moroccan federation Fouzi Lekjaa at the presidential palace in Accra. استقبل السيد نانا أكوفو أودو، رئيس
Morocco has been officially selected to host the 2021 Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) at the end of a long process of evaluation of the applications initially submitted by 13 countries, the Ministry of Economy and Finances announced on Tuesday. This choice, the second of its kind for the African continent since 1973, coincides with the 60th anniversary of the Kingdom's accession to these two institutions on April 25, 1958 and attests to
Spanish civil guard rescued, earlier this morning, 14 migrants who were on an inflatable boat near the Gibraltar territorial waters heading to Cadiz, a coastal city in southern Spain, said EFE on Wednesday. Twelve Moroccan nationals were among the 14 migrants rescued this morning. «Six to eight of them are minors», said news agency Europa Press. The other two passengers, who are believed to be Spanish smugglers, were arrested. According to sources from the Civil Guard, the boat
Dans un communiqué publié mardi soir par l’Elysée, le président Emmanuel Macron a rendu un vibrant hommage à Henri Michel : «Après un bref passage au PSG, c’est à l’étranger que commence alors sa troisième vie sportive. Sélectionneur du Cameroun puis du Maroc pendant cinq ans, des Emirats Arabes Unis, de la Tunisie, de la Côte d’Ivoire, enfin de la Guinée équatoriale
Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed on Tuesday, 24th of April, Valerian Chovaev as new ambassador to Morocco, said Russian news agency Sputnik quoting the Kremlin. The decision was made public by a statement published on the official website of Russian legal information, said the same source. The diplomat was named Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation in the Kingdom of Morocco. For the record, the diplomat held several diplomatic positions before.
Mohammed VI visited the Directorate General for Territory Surveillance (DGST) headquarters in Rabat on Tuesday 24th of April. King inquired about units of the rapid reaction group under the DGST and reviewed the equipment, vehicles and logistics used in intervention operations to deal with the dangers of the terrorist threat and the various forms of organized crime, including cross-border crime. He then inaugurated the new specialized training Institute and visited its various components.
OCP, a global market leader of phosphate since 1920, announced Tuesday that it is planning to raise 5 billion dirhams through a domestic subordinated perpetual bond to uplift its financing sources, financial markets regulator AMMC told Reuters today. According to the same source, through this decision, the phosphate group is trying to «diversify the financing of the 2008-2030 investment programme worth 200 billion dirhams». The step will be taken from 2nd to the 4th of May,
Ivry-sur-Seine mayor Philippe Bouyssou has not met King Mohammed VI, this Tuesday in Betz (Oise), reports Le Parisien. «Despite undergoing a 140-kilometer trip, wearing a colorful scarf and having the strongest determination, no one has bothered answering the door when the Communist mayor knocked on Mohammed VI’s door in Betz. He simply left after spending one hour waiting outside», the newspaper writes. The politician hoped, however, to be received by the Moroccan
Le nombre total de Marocains installés en Espagne s’élève à 769 050 personnes, selon des chiffres arrêtés le 1er janvier 2018, rendus publics mardi par l’Institut national de la statistique (INE). Dans un communiqué, l’INE fait état d’une augmentation, en 2017, de 19 380 personnes du nombre de ressortissants marocains établis en Espagne inscrits sur les registres municipaux, par rapport à