Morocco is ranked 94th by the 2018 edition of the Global Knowledge Index. The latter is conducted by the United Nations Development Programme and the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation.
In August, Morocco allowed, for the first time, US poultry imports into the country. On Thursday, the US Trade Representative announced that the Kingdom has lifted the ban on US beef products too.
The Geneva round table, attended by four delegations from Morocco, the Polisario, Algeria and Mauritania, was concluded on Thursday. In a press briefing, the UN envoy invited the four parties to a second round table stressing that a peaceful solution to the conflict is possible.
According to the 2019 Global Climate Risk Index, Morocco loses annually $174.019 million because of climate risks. The country is ranked 124th among 180 countries studied by the report.
As four delegations from Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania and the Polisario flew to Geneva to attend a «round table» on the Sahara territorial conflict, the US is paying close attention to the event. On Wednesday, the US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, called the Mauritanian Foreign Minister, who was one of the attendees.
The Geneva «round table» is based on three working sessions attended by the parties invited by Horst Köhler. One of these sessions will focus on the «next steps of the political process in Western Sahara».
In 1987, American filmmaker Martin Scorsese chose Morocco among Tunisia and Israel for the shooting of his controversial movie «The Last Temptation of Christ». He opted for Moulay Ismail’s seventeenth century royal stables, the Roman ruins in Volubilis and a deserted village near Marrakech.
Seven months after ten Moroccan farm workers have stood up against sexual assaults in strawberry fields in Huelva, they are still in Spain awaiting the end of their trial. Meanwhile in Morocco Mohamed Yatim said he wants to implement a circular migration model for these workers.
The Spanish government wants to have a commitment from Britain to support the inclusion of clarifications on the status of Gibraltar in the Brexit package. Meanwhile in Morocco, the Democratic Confederation of Labor asked El Othmani’s government about the steps it is planning to take regarding the status of Ceuta and Melilla.
Directed by American filmmaker and actor Orson Welles, Othello was shot in the Kingdom which stood in for Cyprus. The decision was made after Welles faced a couple of financial issues when producing the film.