The Minister of National Education, Mohamed Hassad, has announced that French language will be taught on the first year of the elementary public schools, Media 24 reports. The learning of the language will be applied by the beginning of the upcoming school year. Speaking to former students of HEC School in a debate organized on Thursday 15th of June in Casablanca Mohamed Hassad confirmed that as a first step, pupils will be given the chance to learn and practice oral French. The information
The police of Sale heard, yesterday «for six hours», the director of publication of Badil.info, an online website. Hamid Mahdaoui has been the subject of a complaint filed against him by the Minister of Interior, indicates the same website. The journalist is accused of showing solidarity with Nasser Zefzafi following his very famous interruption in a mosque in Al Hoceima during the Friday prayer. He also accused two Ministers for El Othmani’s cabinet of
The Ministry of Interior announced yesterday 15th of June through several decisions addressed to local unions and syndicates the ban on demonstrations scheduled next Tuesday to commemorate the rioting events that took place in Casablanca on June the 20th 1981. Previously, the Democratic Confederation of Labour (CDT) announced on Tuesday that it will organize a manifestation lighting candles to commemorate the 36th anniversary of the clashes that emerged in Casablanca and several other Moroccan
A decision taken by a South African court on Thursday to keep the seized ship carrying a Moroccan cargo of phosphate in port until the case goes to trial «contradicts international laws». The Minister of State in charge of Human Rights, Mustapha Ramid has stressed on that Thursday in Rabat. This decision contradicts completely the ruling of the Panama court which declared itself that it is not the appropriate venue to consider purely political matters, the Minister recalls in a
High-ranking members of the so-called «Islamic State» (ISIS) have been put on the Washington «international terrorists» blacklist. Among them, a Moroccan-Belgian man implicated in the November 2015 attacks in Paris and Saint-Denis and the Brussels attacks in March 2016, the AFP press agency reports. Oussama Atar is one of the coordinators operating from Syria according to the investigators. The US Department of State has placed him on the blacklist, translating into
La décision d'un tribunal sud-africain d'envoyer le dossier de saisie d'un navire transportant une cargaison de phosphates marocains à un jugement sur le fond «est en contradiction avec le droit international». C’est ce qu’a souligné, jeudi à Rabat, le ministre délégué chargé des relations avec le parlement et la société civile, porte-parole du gouvernement, Mustapha El Khalfi. Cette décision
Les athlètes marocains Hicham Akankam et Abdelkrim Benzahra ont réalisé jeudi de bonnes performances lors du Meeting d’Oslo, cinquième étape de la Ligue de Diamond, en finissant respectivement aux deuxième et troisième positions de l'épreuve du mile U20 (Moins de 20 ans). Akankam s'est adjugé la deuxième position en bouclant la distance de la course en 3 min 57 sec 66/100e, devançant d'un peu plus d'une seconde
L'usine Peugeot-Citroën, dont les travaux ont été lancés à la zone franche de Kénitra (Atlantic free zone), table sur une production annuelle de 200.000 véhicules, a indiqué, jeudi à Kénitra, le ministre de l'Industrie, de l’investissement, du commerce et de l’économie numérique, Moulay Hafid Elalamy. Cette usine, dont les travaux prendront fin en 2019, devrait générer environ 3.500
Le biologiste marocain Adnane Remmal a remporté le prix du public de l’inventeur européen de 2017 pour ses antibiotiques tirés de la nature, a annoncé l’Office européen des Brevets (OEB) dans un communiqué. Son invention a été primée, ce jeudi à Venise, car elle permet de «booster» l’efficacité des antibiotiques classiques grâce aux propriétés médicinales
The high court in Port Elizabeth, South Africa has pronounced today its verdict regarding the Moroccan phosphate cargo that was detained on the 1st of May in the African country. According to Western Sahara Resource Watch, a network close to the separatist front, the latter has won the first round of the court case claiming that «the detention of NM Cherry Blossom on 1 May 2017 was correct». The Sahrawi people according to the same source «has thus passed the first hurdle in