The European Union and Morocco have not reached a settlement yet regarding the 2014 fisheries agreement. The latter expires on Saturday, 14th of July.
Al Khales Group, a company operating in the agricultural sector, is entering the Moroccan market by cultivating goji berries. The decision is the first of its kind, as the fruit has never been grown in the Kingdom. Picked only in China and Tibet, for over 3000 years, today the red berries are cultivated in the region of Kenitra, more precisely in the municipality of Sidi Yahia El Gharb. The latter is the biggest goji berries farm in Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the United States, said
Morocco and Angola are strengthening diplomatic relations which have been stagnating for years. The Southern African nation has been one of the countries that supported the Polisario Front in the past.
According to a Penn State University researcher, Moroccans are abandoning healthy traditional diets to opt for unhealthy food trends.
Morocco said its decision to impose additional taxes on Tunisian school books complies with the World Trade Organization laws, says online newspaper Middle East Monitor on Friday. The Kingdom’s response was made public Thursday, 12th of July, by the government spokesperson Mustapha El Khalfi in a press briefing held in Rabat. In fact, Tunisia lodged a complaint to the WTO after Rabat decided to impose «additional customs on Tunisian school books», reported the same
Marrakech first instance court decided on Wednesday, 11th of July, to postpone footballer Amine Harit’s last hearing to July the 25th. The court’s decision came as «the car’s insurance company submitted a request, indicating that it needs time to start procedures related to compensating the victim’s family», reports Le 360. Harit has reached a settlement with the victim’s family before «offering them a fairly significant amount of money»,
King Mohammed VI gave the symbolic name of «Al Boraq» to the Moroccan project of the high-speed rail line linking Tangier to Casablanca, says Thursday the National Railways Office (ONCF). Al Boraq, name of the fantastic winged mount, evokes speed and travel. Easily memorable, it reflects the meaning and culturally strong values carried by an ambitious and large-scale project that bolsters national pride, stresses the ONCF in a statement. «The Al Boraq train, bearer of
Moroccan women in Syria have been urging the authorities to be repatriated. Sources claim that the procedure was refused by the Kingdom, fearing that these mothers and their children could spread radical Islamist ideology.
Brazil’s decision to vote for the Moroccan bid to host the 2026 World Cup was «shameful», president of the South American Football Confederation Alejandro Dominguez said Tuesday, 10th of July, in a televised interview published by Globo television. Dominguez pointed at the «diplomatic crisis» the confederation is going through because of the FIFA vote. He recalls that the ten football federations that belong to CONMEBOL have all agreed to vote for the North
A Plane or a ferry ? Ceuta or Algeciras? Just like every year, these questions haunt the minds of Moroccans residing abroad holidaying the summer in their mother land. Yabiladi reviewed the ups and downs of the two means of transportations.