Fruit and vegetables exporters in the Canary Islands are concerned about the association agreement signed on 26 October between Morocco and the United Kingdom. Two professional organizations in the province «warn of a new obstacle to local products», recalling that, for example 50% of tomato and cucumber harvests are exported to the British market, reports online publication Canaria7. The two bodies believe that the partnership between Rabat and London is «a fatal
432 Moroccan Jews have left the Kingdom for Israeli in the last eight years, according to data compiled by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Data show that the Moroccan Jews who left the Kingdom to settle down in Israel come first in the region, where only 160 Jews left Tunisia. In a Facebook post published by Wednesday, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs revealed that 119 Yemeni Jews and 2 Algerian Jews left for Israel during the same period. Only one Jew left Qatar,
Ismail Ait Hamou is a former dancer and choreographer who was born in Belgium to Moroccan parents. After a long and successful dancing career, he became a novelist, telling the story of the two cultures he grew up with.
UK’s development finance institution CDC Group has acquired an equity stake of 5% in BMCE Bank of Africa, the Moroccan capital market authority (AMMC) has announced. The British company now owns 5.37% of the capital of said bank, AMMC said in a statement released Thursday on its website. CDC has over 70 years of experience investing in Africa and in Asia, with more than 700 businesses in its African portfolio. The group invests in financial institutions to advance financial
A Tangier court sentenced, Thursday, a Spanish man to eight years in prison for sexually assaulting a Moroccan minor. A Moroccan NGO promised to appeal against the decision that it deems insufficient, citing new evidence.
The World Bank has approved a $300 million loan to help Morocco strengthen its municipalities, the international financial institution announced Thursday. The money will go to the Municipal Performance Project, set by Morocco to «build capacity by providing a sustainable performance-based framework for municipalities to work with», the same source said. «The program objective is to promote territorial development by strengthening Morocco’s municipalities», the
«It is time to solve the Sahara issue», Mauritanian Foreign Minister Ismail Ould Cheikh told reporters on Thursday. The Minister took the opportunity to stress his country’s «neutrality». «We are active and concerned» by this territorial dispute «but we do not support any paryt», he added. The Mauritanian official explained that the position of his country is «not passive neutrality». «We are not spectators and we want
French-Moroccan boxer Nordine Oubaali fought, Thursday, against Japan’s Takuma Inoue, defending for the second time his World Boxing Council bantamweight title. Holding the title since January 2019, the 33-year-old French-Moroccan boxer defeated his Japanese rival, retaining his WBC World belt. Oubaali won his first world title by defeating former amateur rival Rau'shee Warren. After Thursday’s victory, the boxer may be facing Naoya Inoue, the big brother of his Japanese
Robert Purvis was one of the most committed American abolitionists in the nineteenth century. The activist drew strength from the story of his grandmother, a Moroccan woman who was enslaved and transported to the United States at the age of twelve.
On her second day in Morocco, US President senior advisor and daughter Ivanka Trump visited an olive field in the city of Sidi Kacem to meet female landowners, as part of Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative, launched earlier this year. Before making it to Sidi Kacem, Trump wrote on her Twitter account that today, she is traveling to the «rural Gharb region of Morocco to meet with women beneficiaries that will be impacted by implementation of recent land
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