Alstom to build 30 new-generation electric locomotives for ONCF

ONCF, Morocco's national railway operator, announced on Thursday that it signed a contract with France’s Alstom for the manufacturing of 30 «new-generation» electric locomotives to strengthen its fleet, said the company in a statement. Alstom is expected to spend MAD 1.4 billion to manufacture, supply and equip 30 electric locomotives through a loan granted by the French State with a grace period of 10 years and a 0.0016 per cent interest rate. This project is part of a

Arabie saoudite : Premier but du Marocain Achraf Bencherki avec Al-Hilal

Le Marocain Achraf Bencherki a marqué lors de son premier match avec le maillot d'Al-Hilal, jeudi lors du derby de Riyadh contre Al-Nasr (2-2), pour le compte de la 21è journée du championnat d'Arabie saoudite. Les joueurs d'Al-Nasr ont ouvert la marque dès la 8è minute grâce à Junior Kabanaga, un avantage de courte durée puisque Nicolás Milesi a rectifié le tir sept minutes plus tard. Le Marocain Mohamed Fouazir a de nouveau

Alstom construira 30 locomotives électriques «nouvelle génération» pour l'ONCF

L'Office national des chemins de fer (ONCF) a annoncé jeudi avoir attribué à la société française Alstom un contrat pour la fabrication et la fourniture de 30 locomotives électriques «nouvelle génération» pour renforcer le parc du matériel Voyageurs, indique l'Office dans un communiqué. A la suite d’un appel d’offres international, un contrat a été attribué à la

The UN thanks Morocco for paying its 2018 regular budget dues

Morocco is on the list of the 45 states that have paid their 2018 regular budget dues to the United Nations. On Thursday evening, and before starting his daily press briefing, the Spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, Stéphane Dujarric thanked the kingdom for honoring its financial commitments. Strangely, the United States, Germany, Canada and Russia have not made it to the list of the countries that contributed to the UN 2018 regular budget. On

Décès d'un Marocain à bord d’un avion saoudien dans l’espace aérien égyptien

Un ressortissant marocain est décédé, jeudi à Alexandrie, suite à un malaise de santé survenu à bord d’un avion saoudien dans l’espace aérien égyptien, apprend-on auprès de l’ambassade du Maroc au Caire. Agé de 62 ans, le défunt (M. M.) a été victime d’un malaise à bord d’un avion saoudien (vol n°373) qui se dirigeait vers Casablanca en provenance de

Restrictions de visa : Droit de réponse du consulat général de Belgique à Casablanca

Dans une interview, la directrice générale de la Fondation Touria et Abdelaziz Tazi (TAT) et de la structure culturelle L’Uzine, Maria Daïf, évoque son expérience dans le cadre du Festival Moussem Cities. Invitée à l’événement, elle a décidé de le boycotter en protestation contre les conditions d’octroi de visa. Yabiladi publie le droit de réponse du consulat

Hirak : The Al Hoceima appeal court confirms the sentences of seven activists

The Al Hoceima appeal court confirmed on Thursday evening the verdicts pronounced against seven Hirak activists, and which are ranging from five to 20 years in prison, for participating in unauthorized protests in the Rif, reports EFE. Two of the activists were sentenced to 20 years in prison. They are accused of putting fire to a police residence, using violence against the public forces on duty, disobedience and destruction of public property, and having participated to an

Sahara : Morocco is not having direct negotiations with the Polisario, according to El Khalfi

Morocco is not having direct negotiations with the Polisario, announced this afternoon the Minister of Relations with Parliament, and the government spokesman during a press briefing. On the same line as Nasser Bourita, Mustapha El Khalfi said «no meeting is scheduled,» reports Alyaoum24. The Polisario Front declared that it supports the relaunching of direct negotiations with the kingdom under the United Nations’s auspices. For the record, the first direct negotiations

A British boxer of Moroccan descent blames the Kingdom’s meat for his two-year suspension

Muhammed Ali, a British boxer of Moroccan descent who qualified to compete for Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Olympics that was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has blamed Moroccan meat after he failed to pass a drugs test. The 21-year-old boxer who has been banned for two years tested positive for «the anabolic steroid Trenbolone during the World Series of Boxing in Morocco in April last year», reports the BBC sports. Defending his position, the boxer said that he was

Melilla : A governmental delegation to return 36 migrants to Morocco

The government delegate in Melilla, Abdelmalik El Barkani, announced yesterday that 36 of the 39 migrants who arrived in the Chafarinas Islands, a group of three small islets located in the Alboran Sea off the coast of Morocco, and then transferred to Melilla, will be sent back to Morocco to prevent the «migration mafias» from making the Spanish archipelagos a «new gateway to Spain», reports Europa Press. The official said that only three of them were