A high school student in Safi committed suicide after being caught cheating in the national baccalaureate exam. Ahmed Karimi, Director of the Regional Academy of Education and Training (AREF) in Marrakech-Safi, told Le360 newspaper that the girl jumped off the Amouni cliff on the Safi corniche shortly after being caught cheating. He added that the student initially entered the exam center and began the Arabic language test like her classmates. However, the humanities student, caught cheating,
Morocco rescued 29 people on Tuesday morning near Tarfaya, a Maritime Rescue spokesperson told Spanish news agency EFE. The group, consisting of 26 people from sub-Saharan African countries and 3 from the Maghreb region, had initially contacted rescue services indicating they were approaching the east coast of Arrecife, a port city on the east coast of Lanzarote, one of Spain’s Canary Islands. Salvamento Marítimo dispatched helicopters Helimer 202 and Guardamar Talía to
Following the debacle of her far-left coalition in the European elections on June 9, Spanish politician Yolanda Diaz announced her resignation as coordinator of Sumar. «I have decided to step out of my position as coordinator of Sumar. The citizens have spoken and I am taking the consequences. It is necessary to open a debate» within her formation, launched in 2023 by twenty small parties, she declared. For the moment, Diaz has not announced her departure from the Spanish
The Preparatory Committee for the 9th Congress of the Justice and Development Party (PJD), chaired by Driss Azami, continued its tour of Morocco. On Sunday, June 9, the committee held meetings with party members in the Oriental and Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima regions, former electoral strongholds of the Islamists. The declared aim of these meetings is to secure another term for Abdelilah Benkirane at the head of the Lamp Party. «The participants of these regional meetings examined three
The Central African Republic reaffirms its support for Morocco's sovereignty over the Sahara. This position was expressed on Monday, June 10 in Rabat, by Foreign Minister Sylvie Baïpo-Temon, following her talks with her Moroccan counterpart, Nasser Bourita. The foreign minister indicated in a press statement that her country «always stands alongside the Kingdom of Morocco and the efforts it is making to find a solid and peaceful solution» to the question of the Sahara.
In the abandoned mining village of Mibladen (province of Midelt), local authorities destroyed a museum project after an ultimatum of only 24 hours.
Belgian construction of maritime infrastructure firm Jan De Nul has partnered with Australian miner Fortescue to build a 1,000-kilometer cable to import green energy from Morocco to Europe. Jan De Nul and Fortescue signed a cooperation agreement in Rabat earlier last week to provide the «shipping and subsea cable laying capabilities for transporting green electricity», the Belgian company said in a press release on Friday. The deal was signed by Fortescue Chairman, Andrew Forrest,
Morocco's industrial port complex Tanger Med expects to exceed its nominal capacity of nine million containers this year, the port's deputy managing director told Reuters on Monday. Tanger Med's tonnage rose 14.9 percent to 33.3 million metric tons in the first quarter of 2024, while revenue rose 18.3 percent to 1 billion dirhams. «Now each terminal is doing a little bit more in traffic than the theoretical capacity, so I think we will do a little bit better than nine million
Women's cooperatives play a central role in empowering rural women in Morocco, actively contributing to the social and economic development of local communities. OXFAM Morocco, in partnership with the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) and the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), is working to strengthen this movement through the MountainHer project, according to a press release. The project, funded by the PRIMA Foundation, aims to
Many Arab parties attending a session of the Arab National Congress in Beirut did not attend the Polisario Front's conference. However, representatives were present from these parties. The Arab National Congress is a political umbrella organization for pan-Arab ideology movements, and this particular session focused on the Israeli aggression on Gaza. Seizing this opportunity, the Polisario invited all attendees in Beirut to its conference. However, only Lebanon, Algeria, Yemen, Jordan, and
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