Les taekwondoïstes marocains ont décroché huit médailles, dont 3 en or et 2 en argent, permettant ainsi au Maroc d’occuper la tête du classement des 3e Jeux africains de la jeunesse (JAJ 2018), qui se déroulent du 18 au 28 juillet à Alger. Le Maroc a également décroché cinq médailles lors des finales des 4e journées des épreuves d’athlétisme. Abderrazak Mozdahir a décroché
Several activities planned during the «Dakhla Week», held between the 21st and 28th of July in Torremolinos, a Mediterranean resort town on southern Spain's Costa del Sol, have been canceled, reports online newspaper La Vanguardia. The decision was approved by the city’s mayor José Ortiz Garcia, canceling a «fashion show, and musical show, scheduled for on July the 26th, and the closing party planned on the 28th», says the same source. The
Moroccan Ministers of Industry and Economy, Moulay Hafid Elalamy and Mohamed Boussaid, along with the chairman of Citic Dicastal, Xu Zuo signed an investment agreement in Rabat, Thursday 26th, to build aluminum car rim factories in Morocco, says Reuters. Signature en compagnie du ministre du Commerce et de l’Industrie de la convention d’investissement avec le groupe chinois citic dicastal pour la réalisation d’une usine de production de jantes aluminium :
Morocco’s economy finances costs will rise if state-owned companies don’t control their external borrowing spree, reported Bloomberg quoting the country’s planning agency. Chief planner Ahmed Lahlimi told the American magazine that «strict vigilance is in order today», warning against the «external debt of public companies that has started to slightly surpass the government’s». According to the same source, state-run companies’
The United Nations Economic and Social Council elected, on Thursday, by acclamation, Morocco's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York Omar Hilale vice-president of the body on behalf of the African continent, reports MAP news agency. The decision will enable the Kingdom to chair one of the key segments in the council, namely : Integration, humanitarian affairs, operational activities for development and management meetings for the ECOSOC. The Moroccan diplomat will
Le conseil de gouvernement, réuni jeudi à Rabat, a adopté un projet de décret modifiant le décret portant application de la loi relative au régime de l'assurance maladie obligatoire (AMO) de base des étudiants, a indiqué le ministre délégué chargé des Relations avec le parlement et la société civile, porte-parole du gouvernement, Mustapha El Khalfi. Présenté par le ministre de
American expatriate, diplomat and founder of the notorious Rick’s Café Kathy Kriger passed away, Thursday 26th of July, wrote the US Embassy on its Twitter account. Kriger has been living in Morocco since 1998. She was working as a commercial counselor for the U.S. Embassy in Rabat but decided three years later to quit her job and live the Moroccan dream. So in love with the Kingdom, the retired diplomat had the idea of recreating a café that appeared in one of the
Le premier groupe de pèlerins marocains s’est rendu, jeudi, à destination des Lieux Saints de l’Islam pour y accomplir le rite du pèlerinage au titre de l’année 1439 de l’hégire (2018). Dans une déclaration à la presse à cette occasion, le ministre des Habous et des affaires islamiques, Ahmed Toufiq a indiqué que 32 000 pèlerins marocains vont accomplir le pèlerinage au titre de cette
A 22-year-old Moroccan national, living in the Netherlands, is facing deportation because of his criminal record. The young man has been sentenced in 2012 for being involved in a mob murder of a football linesman after a youth game in Almere in December of the same year, says Dutch online newspaper DutchNews. According to the same source, the Netherlands National Press Agency (ANP) reported that the Immigration & Naturalization Service (IND) had told the man two years ago that his
In a letter relayed by El Pueblo de Ceuta, Spanish journalist José Luis Navazo who is also the publishing director of online newspaper Correo Diplomático, addresses Moroccan Minister of State in charge of Human Rights, Mustapha Ramid. In his open letter, the journalist writes to «his dear friend Ramid» denouncing his «unexplained and surprising» expulsion from Morocco on the evening of July 25th of 2017. Navazo says he still does not know why he