A Moroccan delegation presided by Hammou Ouhelli, Secretary of State for Rural Development, is on a business trip to Ireland in order to visit a number of state bodies, the Independent Ireland reports. According to the same source, the Seceretary of State is accompanied with senior officials from the ONSSA (office national de securité sanitaire et des produits alimentaires) and ADA (Agence pour le developpement agricole). The Moroccan delegation had the chance during this visit to hold
Un total de 968 096 Marocains résidant à l'étranger (MRE) ont été accueillis au 16 juillet courant au niveau des différents points d’accès maritimes, aériens et terrestres depuis le lancement de l'opération Marhaba 2017, selon la Fondation Mohammed V pour la Solidarité. Le flux de cette année enregistre à cette date une augmentation en termes d’arrivées de 5,36% par rapport à 2016, a
FC Barcelona has formalized the recruitment of Mohamed Ezzerfani, a 19-year-old young Moroccan midfielder, who is joining the Futbol Club Barcelona from the Spanish team of Badalona, says the Atlas Lions website. The player signed a two-year contract, with an extension option for three seasons. His transfer cost FC Barcelona the sum of EUR 100,000. However, his departure clause was immediately set at EUR 12 million.
The local authorities of Al Hoceima city announced on Monday the prohibition of a march scheduled for the 20th of July. In a communiqué sent to Yabiladi, Al Hoceima's prefecture announced that calling people to participate to a march on Thursday in the Rif capital did not respect the set procedures. «The local administrative authorities have not received a declaration regarding this subject, in accordance with Dahir No. 1. 58. 377 published on the 15th of November 1958 concerning
Rayal Air Maroc, Morocco’s leading Airline Company inaugurated on Monday 17th of July a new agency in Dakhla, RAM said in a statement. The 105 meter squared new agency is open to meet the needs of the company and passengers, according to the same source. It also has a «dynamic» information system. «The renovation of the Dakhla sales office is part of our customer-centric strategy. It aims to offer a space of reception and sharing in order to allow us to deploy a
Recently, Italy has recorded a remarkable uplift in the number of young Moroccans applying for political asylum, Italian Ministry of Interior said as reported by Al Quds Al Arabi on Monday. Last year, the number of Moroccans seeking asylum in Italy exceeded 1,500, a trend that decreased in 2017 with more than 800 applications up to this summer. «While nearly 1400 Moroccans have arrived this year in Spain (...) this figure remains low compared to Italy. Since the beginning of this
Deux personnes ont trouvé la mort et huit autres ont été blessées à différents degrés dans un accident, dimanche soir, sur la route régionale n°409 reliant la commune rurale d'Ait Yadine et la ville de Khémisset, a-t-on appris auprès des autorités locales. L'accident s'est produit vers 22h30 suite à une collision entre un grand taxi et un pick-up, entraînant la mort du chauffeur du taxi et l'un de ses
La compagnie aérienne Air France entame ce mardi son premier vol direct sur Agadir, à partir de l'aéroport Charles-de-Gaules. Selon le Conseil régional du tourisme (CRT) d'Agadir, ce vol inaugural se fera à bord d'un Airbus A320 avec 180 passagers. Cette ligne directe sera opérée à raison de trois fois par semaine (mardi, jeudi et samedi), avec l'ambition de booster les arrivées en provenance notamment du
The Moroccan athlete Youssef Benibrahim set a new world record for the 5,000m (T13) on Sunday at the World Para Athletics World Championships organized in London from the 14th to the 23rd of July. Benibrahim, who offered Morocco his second gold medal at the World Para Athletics Championships, finished the race in 14min 20 sec.69 ahead of his Tunisian rival Aloui Bilel (14: 21.69) and Canadian competitor Ouellet Guillaume (14: 23.24). Morocco is taking part of the world championships in London
In Saint-Apollinaire, the local referendum of July the 16th has failed the hopes of the Muslim community in Quebec, Canada. Among 49 citizens entitled to vote, 19 opposed the project of the funeral complex Harmonia and the Center culturel Islamique de Québec (CCIQ), while 16 supported it, says Le Journal de Québec. The participation rate was 75%. «They have given the chance to speak to a minority and that is what is unfortunate ... We have just said to several thousand