FC Barcelona announced today in a statement the closing of its football academy in Casablanca, FCB Escola, following two years of operations, according to Spanish sports information website Be Soccer. The club did not indicate the reasons behind the termination of its contract with the local company in charge of the management of the academy. It has been disclosed however, that the club did not have, at the moment, any «official sporting project on Moroccan soil», and proceeded to
L’écrivain et journaliste marocain Mohamed Chakor, premier correspondant de l’agence Maghreb Arabe Presse (MAP) en Espagne, est décédé, vendredi dans son domicile à Madrid à l’âge de 80 ans, a-t-on appris auprès de sa famille. Feu Mohamed Chakor est décédé des suites d’une longue maladie et sera rapatrié au Maroc pour être enterré à Rabat, a-t-on ajouté de
Morocco and Nepal, a landlocked central Himalayan country in South Asia, signed on the 3rd of August a Memorandum of Understanding on the formation of a bilateral consultation mechanism, reports the Himalayan Times. Mohmmed Maliki, the Ambassador to Nepal and Shankar Das Bairagi, Nepal’s Foreign Secretary attended a ceremony in the Foreign Ministry where they signed the MoU. The latter, according to Baigari will help «exploring ways and means for further expanding and consolidating
The funeral of Mohamed Ait Saïd, a peacekeeper from the Minusca, who died in the Central African Republic in an armed group attack, took place on Thursday in Ouarzazate. After Al Asr prayer the funeral procession moved to the Tigmi El Jadid cemetery where the body of the deceased was buried. His funeral was attended by members his family, friends and relatives, as well as several senior military and civilian figures. Similarly, the funeral of Master Corporal Zaid Kabouz, also killed in
Les obsèques du sergent-chef Mohamed Ait Saïd, militaire du contingent des FAR de la Minusca, décédé en Centrafrique dans une attaque perpétrée par un groupe armé, ont eu lieu jeudi à Ouarzazate. Après les prières d’Al Asr et du mort à la mosquée Al Atiq de Ouarzazate, le cortège funèbre s’est ébranlé vers le cimetière Tigmi El Jadid, où la
Royal Air Maroc has set a new traffic record last weekend (29th and 30th of July 2017), the company said in a statement. 57,739 passengers flew with the company on 517 flights (round trip) during these two days. This influx has set an exceptional record at Mohammed V airport, where nearly 42,726 people took 350 flights of the Royal Air Maroc round trip. The Casablanca hub accounted for 74% of the company’s traffic. «This achievement was made possible by the arrangements put by the
Wärtsilä group, a Finnish corporation which manufactures and services power sources and other equipment in the marine and energy markets, is to source a 22MW base load power plant to Morocco following «an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract», reports the company today. The Moroccan state which will made use of the new engines has insisted on a specific evaluation principle for the plant which will guarantee «a levelized cost of energy
A Moroccan national put the bar where he used to work on fire after being fired on Wednesday night in Milan, Italy. Several Italian media outlets have reported the story today indicating that he worked in the bar located in Ferrara as a manager. According to Il Giorno, the Moroccan employee was kicked off as he refused to pay «the beers he drunk». After 11 pm, the bar’s owner argued with the employee who was fired later. Eye witnesses told the same source that the man came
The House of Representatives unanimously approved 17 international bilateral and multilateral conventions with Arab countries, Africa and China. Regionally, MPs approved four conventions linked to the Arab Free Trade Area (AFTA), which is related to the Agadir Agreement (May 2011). Launched by King Mohammed VI, this agreement aims at creating a free trade zone between Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Jordan, said on Wednesday the delegate minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation,
Les obsèques du Caporal-Chef Hicham Amahrit, né à Sefrou en 1981, ont eu lieu jeudi dans sa ville natale. Le militaire du contingent des FAR de la Mission Multidimensionnelle de Stabilisation des Nations-Unies en Centrafrique (MINUSCA), est décédé le 25 juillet dans une attaque, alors qu’il était en mission d’escorte de camions citernes pour le ravitaillement de la ville de Bangassou en eau au titre d’une action