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The World Bank (WB) on Wednesday approved a US $ 275 million loan to Morocco for development policy support for disaster risk management and a deferred drawing option in case of disasters (or Cat DDO). The operation was designed to help the country be better able to manage the financial …

The Arab Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) on Tuesday called for strengthening strategic partnerships with Morocco. At the 40th session of its Higher Council, meeting in Riyadh, the GCC recommended the consolidation of strategic partnerships with sister countries including Jordan, Morocco, Sudan and Iraq, as well as the Arab League and …

The Kingdoms of Morocco and Lesotho decided on Tuesday in Rabat to open “forthcoming” respective embassies to strengthen their bilateral cooperation and support the new page that opens in the relations of the two African countries. The two kingdoms agreed to further explore “the possibility of opening embassies in our …

Morocco, still in the category of countries with “average human development”, is placed this year at the 121st position while it was 123rd last year on the human development index released Monday by the Program United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The 2019 Human Development Index of the United Nations Development …

55.5 million euros. This is the amount of the deal concluded last Thursday in Rabat between the National Office of Electricity and Drinking Water (ONEE) and the German institution Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW). This deal covers contracts for several programs covering the field of drinking water supply and liquid sanitation. …

The Kingdom of Morocco, which is one of the oldest troop contributing countries, has made the irreversible choice to participate steadily in the United Nations Peacekeeping Operations, said Monday in Agadir, the head of the UN division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans residing abroad, Amine …

Ambassadors Permanent Representatives to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) hold their annual meeting on climate change on Monday and Tuesday in Seychelles, chaired by Morocco. This meeting, which is part of Morocco’s presidency of the Bureau of the 52nd Session of the Conference of African Ministers of …

Based on 14 indicators in four categories “Greenhouse gas emissions”, “Renewable energy”, “Energy consumption” and “Climate policy”, the 2019 Climate Change Performance Index has given Morocco a score of 70.48 behind Sweden which scored a score of 76.28 and which leads in a total of 56 countries. “Morocco wins a …

In a meeting with the Moroccan Minister of Labor and Integration, Mohamed Amkraz, in Abidjan, on the sidelines of the 14th African Regional Meeting of the International Labor Organization (ILO), the Director-General, Guy Ryder thanked Morocco for successfully hosting the Global Forum on Migration and Development, held in December 2018 …

Morocco and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which have longstanding and very strong relations, are determined to strengthen their bilateral co-operation and raise it to higher levels. This position was expressed by the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, government spokesman El Hassan Abyaba, on the …