Morocco is among the most innovative country in North Africa and in the Arab World. However, the country is still making slow progress compared, moving from 76th to 74th in the index's global ranking.
Kenya’s men’s basketball team defeated, Thursday, at the FIBA AfroCan the Moroccan team (96-66), Kenyan newspaper Daily Nation. After getting the Moroccan team knocked out of the competition, the Kenyan team will have to play against the Democratic Republic of Congo for the tournament’s final game. During Thursday’s game, Morocco’s basketball player Sami Al Uariachi was the star of the show, scoring 20 points and getting three rebounds. However, the Moroccan
Liberian-flagged ship «Venture Pearl», which carries 55,000 tons of phosphate from OCP subsidiary Phosboucraa, docked Wednesday at Tauranga in New Zealand. The trip of said ship was behind the Polisario Front’s anger. In fact, the movement’s representative in Australia and New Zealand reacted to the news, alleging that «Venture Pearl»’s staff «purposely disguised its destination during its eight weeks at sea». These claims were denied by
Firefighters removed, Thursday night, 15 bodies buried under a landslide, triggered by the heavy rainfalls in Al Haouz province, near a village called Asni, a 2M.ma reporter said. The victims who were travelling in a small van were trapped under a pile of mud. According to local online newspaper Kesh24, 12 women and 3 men died in the tragedy, including three children. The van was heading to a village called Taliouin in the province of Taroudant when the landslide took place. The vehicle has
A «special envoy» sent by Venezuela’s self-proclaimed interim president Juan Guaido to Rabat was officially received by the Moroccan government in his first official mission to the Kingdom, Spanish news agency EFE reports. Jose Ignacio Guedez was at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Thursday, to attend a meeting alongside diplomats accredited by Rabat. He was appointed by Guaido three months ago. The diplomat considered by Rabat as a
Based on the findings of a pest risk analysis, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has decided to approve fresh imports of raspberry from Morocco, the agency said in a statement released Wednesday. The results of the abovementioned analysis revealed that «the application of one or more designated phytosanitary measures will be sufficient to mitigate the risks of introducing or disseminating plant pests or noxious weeds via the importation of raspberries from
According to a Fitch Solutions commentary on Morocco’s economy, the privatization plans introduced by the Moroccan government would boost revenue growth in the coming quarters.
Local authorities at the Al Haouz province confirmed, Thursday, that a vehicle is being buried under a massive landslide triggered by the heavy rainfalls on Wednesday, MAP reports. The vehicle is carrying an unknown number of passengers who are trapped inside. In a statement issued, Thursday, the Interior Ministry revealed that firefighters and the local authorities are doing everything they could to rescue the passengers stuck inside and then clear the road that has been blocked since
Nearly three months after leaving for Abu Dhabi, the United Arabi Emirates (UAE) ambassador to Morocco Ali Salem Al Kaabi, is reportedly expected to return to Rabat. According to Arabic-language daily Akhbar Al Yaoum, which quotes well-informed sources, the diplomat’s return was discussed during the phone call between King Mohammed VI and Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. The Moroccan sovereign and Zayed Al Nahyan «discussed brotherly relations
The families of the three Sahrawi detainees, arrested in June by the Polisario Front and held at the Dhaibiya prison, staged a sit-in Wednesday in Tindouf. According to pro-Polisario news platform Futuro Sahara, the detainees’ families called for the release of their loved ones. They chanted slogans and waved the photos of the three detainees, Moulay Abba Bouzeid, Fadel Breika and Mahmoud Zeidan. The families also condemned the kidnapping of the three activists and accused the Front of
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