After the U.S. announced last Tuesday that Morocco will start importing American poultry, Moroccan professionals in the poultry farming sector criticized the decision, stressing that it would create «unfair competition». The Moroccan Interprofessional Federation of the Poultry Sector (FISA) issued a statement, relayed Sunday by Arabic-language online newspaper Hespress, calling for the holding for an urgent meeting. Professionals from the Moroccan poultry sector are planning
Announced in 2016, the agreement set to build a plant in Rwanda by Morocco's Office Cherifieb des Phosphates (OCP) was finally signed and approved, Wednesday, reports the New Times. The joint agreement was signed by OCP, which will hold a majority 57.4 per cent stake in the new company dubbed Rwanda Fertilizer Company, Rwanda's Agro Processing Trust Corporation (APTC) (30%) and the Rwandan government (12.6%). «The trio will jointly set up a soil fertilizer blending firm in the country
After the Polisario Front published a photos on its media platforms, showing Pope Francis with Sahrawi children, Wednesday, the Vatican's official representation in Morocco issued a communiqué, relayed by MAP press agency on Saturday, denouncing political exploitation. «The Holy See's position on the Sahara conflict has not changed», said the same statement, referring to the picture that was used in a political way. «The weekly audiences that the Holy Father gives to
After its 2017 first edition, USAID Career Center hosted the second edition of its summer camp from the 2nd to the 31st of July. In a communiqué sent Friday to Yabiladi, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) stated that 3,500 young university students and vocational trainees attended the summer camp. Attendees benefited from «orientation workshops, soft skills trainings, conferences, competitions and meetings with professionals», says the same
Royal Air Maroc’s difficulties are never ending. This time, the wing of the company’s plane hit a Turkish Airlines plane’s tail, minutes before the take-off, in Istanbul at the Atatürk International Airport, says the TV channel Russia Today on Friday. The incident occurred in the early hours of Thursday, August 9th, in the parking area near the international terminal. While taxiing, the right wing of the RAM aircraft struck the APU (the auxiliary power
Blockchain company Soluna’s wind farm in Dakhla will «not make cryptocurrency transactions in Morocco where financial authorities have warned against the use of cryptocurrencies», the firm’s chief executive John Belizaire told Reuters Friday in an interview. The project was announced in July by Brookstone Partners, a New York-headquartered firm that backs through its Morocco subsidiary, Platinum Power, Soluna to build a 900-megawatt wind farm
While several Arab states have decided to stand with Saudi Arabia in ist recent crisis with Canada, Morocco has, so far, preferred to remain silent.
One month after Morocco announced that it is unilaterally suspending commercial customs at the Beni-Ensar border crossing in Melilla, the secretary general of the Spanish People’s Party in the enclave, Miguel Marin, referred to a possible sea link between Morocco and city. The idea is to link Melilla to Morocco by ferry instead of using land borders. This proposal includes also tourists, says Melilla Hoy. Miguel Marin, who is also head of Melilla’s port authority, stressed
While the World Bank praised in a recent article Morocco’s all-weather rural roads program, MPs pointed at the nation-wide plan’s failings. 13 years ago, the World Bank granted Rabat a loan to boost the program.
After the U.S. Trade Representative’s Office announced that Morocco will start importing American poultry products, the US Poultry & Egg Council (USAPEEC) explained that the decision will also cover turkey.