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The Central African Republic (CAR) launched a consulate general in Laâyoune on Thursday morning. The opening ceremony for the consulate was chaired by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans living abroad, Nasser Bourita, and his Central African counterpart Sylvie Baïpo-Temon. In a press statement on the sidelines …

The Competition Council and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, signed on Wednesday in Rabat a partnership agreement aimed at the development of an institutional ecosystem supporting the effective implementation of the policy competition. The agreement thus enables the IFC to support the Moroccan …

King Mohammed VI had a meeting with the King of Bahrain, Hamad Ben Issa Al Khalifa, on Thursday in Rabat, who is on a private visit to Morocco. Recall that the Sovereign received, Wednesday at the Royal Palace of Rabat, several foreign ambassadors, who came to present him their credentials …

After a slight improvement in the ranking covering the year 2018, Morocco is once again falling in the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) of Transparency International published this Thursday, January 23. The Kingdom occupies the 80th position out of the 180 countries studied with a score of 41/100. It is ranked …

Faced with the migratory flow which crosses the Mediterranean, the European Union had decided to bring its aid, both financial and logistical, to the Kingdom in order to curb this influx. The result of these combined efforts: the number of irregular crossings into Europe from Morocco was reduced by 54% …

Morocco has been classified as “the most unequal country in northern Africa,” according to the latest report from the NGO Oxfam on global inequality traditionally published the day before the Davos Economic Forum in Switzerland. In 2019, the kingdom was ranked 143rd out of 153 countries compared to the world …

In 2019, Morocco gained 4 places globally in the democracy index. In the MENA region, he keeps 3rd position, which he occupied in the previous edition of this ranking. “Democracy Index 2019: A year of democratic setbacks and popular protest” is published by “The Economist intelligence unit (EIU)”, a service …

The Kingdom of Morocco has officially taken over the chairmanship of the Arab Group of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), for a one-year term. A handover ceremony between the Ambassador of Egypt to France, Permanent Delegate to UNESCO, Ehab Badawy, whose country chaired the group in …

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nasser Bourita, received Wednesday the new US ambassador to Rabat, David T. Fischer. David T. Fischer is the new Ambassador of the United States of America in Rabat. The latter presented, Wednesday, figurative copies of his credentials to the head of Moroccan diplomacy, Nasser Bourita.

Morocco and the Kingdom aim to build a strategic investment partnership, UK Minister of State for International Trade Conor Burns said in London on Tuesday. In a statement on the sidelines of the Morocco-United Kingdom business dialogue held in the British capital, in the aftermath of the Afro-British Investment Summit, …