The International Federation of Football Association (FIFA) has officially authorized FC Barcelona striker Munir El Haddadi to play with the Atlas Lions, reports Le Matin. A FIFA spokesman confirmed to the daily newspaper the decision of the players status committe induring the international forum. «The request made by the Royal Moroccan Football Federation concerning the change of federation has been accepted by the players status committee the , assures a source. The player is
The embassy and consulate of Morocco in London organized on Tuesday an Iftar of solidarity to support the survivors and family members of the victims that were killed and injured in the Grenfell tower fire. Organized with the help of volunteers, associative actors and Moroccan traders, this Iftar was an opportunity for all the members of the Moroccan community to get together and back the Moroccan families bereaved by this terrible fire. Ambassador Abdesselam Aboudrar, who was accompanied by
Morocco’s plan to start liberalizing its currency through a reform package strongly suggested by the International Monetary Fund is about to be launched. Reacting to the strategic step, economic operators anticipating a devaluation, started converting their assets into Euros and Dollars. Responding to that, Abdellatif Jouahri, the Central bank governor said yesterday that «the reform program does not include devaluation».
The Ministry of Health has built 88 equipped community hospitals, exceeding the number that was planned before (80), the Minister of Health Lhoucine El Ouardi said on Tuesday in Rabat. Responding to two oral questions asked by two deputies at the chamber of representatives concerning the problems of emergency services, El Ouardi stated that in addition to the existing scanners in public hospitals, 23 others were purchased this year while 26 will be soon bought for next year. In addition,
As opposed to the plans set up by the Arabic language advocates, the French language is gaining more space in public schools. The latest decision taken by the Minister of National Education, Mohamed Hassad to start teaching French beginning from first grade has angered Fouad Abou Ali, president of the National Arabic Language Collective. He denounced the project imposed by the ministry calling it a form of «ancient and new colonization».
King Mohammed VI just gave his High instructions to «immediately solve the situation of a group of thirteen Syrian refugee families stranded at the border between Morocco and Algeria» near Figuig. The communiqué issued by the Palace on the evening of the 20th of June 2017, which also happens to be the World Refugee day, does not provide further details regarding the «immediate» solution. Is Morocco going to grant the Syrian families entry to the territory after
Economic growth is expected to accelerate and attain 4.4 percent in 2017 and to reach 3.1 percent in 2018, according to Bank Al-Maghrib (BAM) forecasts. Driven by a rebound in cereal production according to estimations of the Department of Agriculture at 102 million quintals, agricultural inputs would increase by 13.4%, while the rate of non-agricultural GDP would improve by 3.1% to 3.3%, BAM announced on Tuesday after the quarterly meeting of its Board. In 2018, the recovery in
Angola has been one of the African countries that supported the Polisario Front, especially with Dos Santos as a president for 38 years. With the departure of the latter, Morocco can finally strengthen its diplomatic ties with the country.
During his visit to Morocco, the Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed alongside his Moroccan counterpart, Salah eddine Al Othmani announced in a joint-statement following the 19th session of the Tunisian-Moroccan High Joint Commission in Rabat that the two countries support a political solution to the crisis in Libya, ASHARQ AL-AWSAT reports. The two politicians highlighted their states' will back and accompany the Libyan people «in the path towards a comprehensive political
Lawyers and rights activist groups announced on Tuesday that the Moroccan authorities have arrested more protesters in the biggest protest movement that the country is witnessing since the Arab spring, Reuters reports. The same source indicates that 100 individuals belonging to the «Hirak» movement were arrested since the end of May, as Abdessadak Elbouchattaoui, one of the movement's lawyers declared. «There are arrests on a daily basis, on average, there were about four