Audrey Azoulay, the former French Minister of Culture, arrived at the top and on an equal footing with the Qatari candidate after the third round of electing the next Director-General of the United Nations for Education, Science and Culture (Unesco), reports AFP, the French news agency. Only five candidates are in contention «after the withdrawal on Wednesday of the Vietnamese representative». Audrey Azoulay and the Qataru diplomat Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al-Kawari have collected
Handy Voice of Rabat was named as the best junior company on Tuesday in Casablanca by Injaz Al-Maghrib, a national competition initiated by Injaz Al-Maghrib, an association that was founded 10 years ago. The winning firm received the best young high school award for creating a mobile application dedicated to help deaf mutes communicate. Meanwhile, Titrite that manufactures tourist monuments miniatures with a multilingual application that tells the story of every building was granted the best
Morocco’s economy to grow in 2017 reaching 4.8 compared to 4.4% scored in the last 6 months, said the International Monetary Fund, an organization that fosters global monetary cooperation, secures financial stability, facilitates international trade, promotes high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduces poverty around the world. In its latest biannual report on the world economic outlook published Tuesday in Washington, the Bretton Woods institution has also lowered its
The Italian authorities have expelled on Thursday 12th of October, a Moroccan national who is considered as a threat to the internal security of the state, said the Italian Ministry Interior in a statement, reported by EFE news agency. The Moroccan man is suspected of having links with people affiliated to the jihadist movement. The 43-year-old man was repatriated by plane from Milan Malpensa International Airport to Casablanca. According to the Ministry, the Moroccan national for whom an
Les prix de la compétition nationale de la meilleure junior entreprise 2017 ont été attribués mardi soir à Casablanca, à l'initiative de l'Association Injaz Al-Maghrib qui célèbre ses dix ans d'existence. Le prix de la meilleure jeune entreprise lycéenne est revenu à Handy Voice de Rabat, pour son application mobile dédiée à aider les sourds muets à communiquer, qui a également
Siemens Gamesa, Spanish manufacturing company principally involved in the fabrication of wind turbines and the construction of wind farms, inaugurated on Wednesday, 11th of October, a new factory in Tangier, according to Medias 24. The event was chaired by Moroccan Minister of Industry, Investement, Trade and Digital Economy, Moulay Hafid Elalamy and Markus Tacke, President and CEO of Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy. The factory will be the first wind turbines manufacturer in Africa and the
Saad Lamjarrad is no longer wearing an electronic ankle bracelet, according to his lawyer, Eric Dupond-Moretti. Contacted by Huffpost Morocco, the French lawyer confirmed the information indicating that the Moroccan singer accused of «aggravated rape» and «voluntary violence», is now able to freely move in France. «Yes, it’s true, he is no longer wearing an electronic ankle bracelet», he said. Indeed, the singer was arrested on October the 26th, 2016
Morocco rejects the unilateral Catalan independence process and expresses its commitment to the sovereignty, national unity and territorial integrity of the kingdom of Spain, said a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. The unilateral process, announced yesterday, is irresponsible, unsustainable and a source of instability and division not only for Spain but to other neighboring European countries. The Kingdom of Morocco believes in the
Le Maroc rejette le processus unilatéral d’indépendance de la Catalogne et exprime son attachement à la souveraineté, à l’unité nationale et à l’intégrité territoriale du Royaume d’Espagne, indique un communiqué du ministère des Affaires étrangères et de la coopération internationale (MAECI). Le processus unilatéral, annoncé hier, irresponsable et non viable,
Samira Al Zaher, a 35-year-old Moroccan woman who has been living in the United Arab Emirates for 15 years, was struggling for nine years to earn citizenship for her son who was abondanded by his father. Thanks to the Crown Prince of Ajman, an emirate in the UAE, who intervened to help Samira. Her son was granted a Moroccan passport, according to the National, an Emirati online newspaper. In 2007, Sameera Al Zaher married an Egyptian man that she met in the United Arab Emirates, she gave birth