North American and Moroccan candidates, bidding to host the 2026 World Cup, will attend a meeting Wednesday, 30 May, in Zurich with FIFA’s bid inspectors, reports ESPN quoting Associated Press. Officials from the joint United States-Canada-Mexico team and Morocco will be answering questions from a «FIFA-appointed panel evaluating their bids ahead of the June 13 vote», said FIFA Monday. FIFA’s evaluation reports will be published ahead of the vote scheduled
La régénération de la cédraie au niveau de la province d’Ifrane porte sur une superficie globale s’élevant à 15.940, dont 7 165 ha concernent de nouvelles plantations, selon des chiffres du Haut-Commissariat aux eaux et forêts et à la lutte contre la désertification (HCEFLCD). Ces efforts s’inscrivent dans le cadre de la mise en application de la stratégie 2015-2024, qui prévoit sur le plan
Minister of Energy, Mining and Sustainable Development, Aziz Rabbah, stressed, Monday in Rabat, the need to strengthen interconnectivity with Spain to benefit from electricity under better conditions and secure the supply of electricity in the national market. At the end of his talks with Spanish minister for Energy, Tourism and the Digital Agenda, Alvaro Nadal Belda, Rabbah told the press, that «fruitful» energy cooperation between Morocco and Spain is part of a vision of regional
Le ministre de l'Énergie, des mines et du développement durable, Aziz Rabbah, a souligné, lundi à Rabat, la nécessité de renforcer l'inter-connectivité avec l'Espagne pour bénéficier d'une électricité dans de meilleures conditions et sécuriser l'approvisionnement du marché national en la matière. Au terme de ses entretiens avec le ministre espagnol de l’Énergie, du tourisme et de
Le consul général du Maroc à Bilbao, Fatiha El Kamouri, s’est rendue lundi au chevet des deux enfants du couple marocain mort suite à l’explosion mercredi dernier d’un dépôt illégal de matériel de pyrotechnie à Tui, dans la province de Pontevedra (nord-ouest de l’Espagne). La diplomate marocaine s’est informée sur place de l’état de santé des deux enfants marocains,
Royal Air Maroc (RAM) is offering 5,000-dirham round trip flights for St. Petersburg, Moscow and Kaliningrad, the cities where the Atlas Lions will play during the 2018 FIFA World Cup, says the Moroccan national carrier in a communiqué sent Monday to Yabiladi. The flights will link Casablanca, Tangier, Oujda and Marrakech to the three above-mentioned Russian cities. The initiative is a partnership bringing together the Ministry of Youth and Sports, the Royal Moroccan Football Federation
Egypt announced on Monday, 28 May, that it is banning Youtube for a month because of a video, denigrating Prophet Mohammed, says Numerama. The decision was made after the Egypt’s top administrative court ended on Saturday an appeal over a 2012 amateurish film entitled Innocence of Muslims and «which depicts the prophet Mohammed as a buffoon and a pedophile», wrote the Guardian. The video has been banned in several Muslim countries, such as Libya, Afghanistan, Egypt and even
On Monday morning, May 28, an employee at the Moroccan Consulate in Düsseldorf, Germany, received a letter that contained suspicious powder. The latter gave the employee an unpleasant-looking rash, reports German online newspaper Westdeutsche Zeitung. According to the same source, the police went to the consulate to «determine the nature of the powder». Moreover, WDR rejects the hypothesis, suggesting that the powder was poisonous, indicating that
Les éléments de la brigade mobile relevant de la direction régionale des douanes d’Agadir ont intercepté et saisi, dimanche à Tiznit, un camion citerne transportant 14 tonnes de carburant de contrebande. Le conducteur du camion, intercepté au niveau de la commune de Bounaamane, a été placé en garde à vue pour les besoins de l’enquête, menée sous la supervision du parquet, apprend-on lundi
Journalist Souad Mekhennet, a German national of Moroccan origin, received on Sunday in Frankfurt the 2018 Ludwig Börne Prize, one of the most esteemed literary prizes across German-speaking countries. The Washington Post National Security Reporter becomes the first Arab and Muslim journalist to win the award. Mekhennet won in 2017 the Daniel Pearl Award for courage and integrity in journalism. The Ludwig Börne Foundation honors outstanding achievements in essay, criticism and