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• Morocco Standardizes Birth Certificates to Protect Children’s Rights and Identity
  22 July 2019, by Bladi.net

  Unifying the content of birth certificates and medical certificates, to determine age, based on the principles of sex, the right to identity, the right to non-discrimination and the right to health. This is the objective of the operation to standardize birth certificates and medical certificates, to determine the approximate age.
  This operation, which is part of the national campaign for the registration of children in the civil status, also aims to define the rule for the delivery of (…)

• Interior Ministry Reshuffles 20% of Morocco’s Authority Agents in Performance Overhaul
  4 August 2019, by Sylvanus

  895 authority agents, or nearly 20% of this corps serving in the territorial administration, have been transferred. This is what should be noted from the latest movement carried out by the Ministry of the Interior.
  Establishment of a pioneering experience at the level of the civil service. This is the whole meaning of the movement that took place in the ranks of the authority agents, with 895 of them. This movement led to the implementation of a new integrated system for evaluating the (…)

• Moroccan Doctors Face Legal Action for Alleged Desertion and Misconduct at Provincial Hospital
  18 August 2019, by Bladi.net

  Four doctors from the Lalla Meriem Provincial Hospital were questioned on Thursday, August 15, 2019, by the Larache Prosecutor’s Office, following a complaint filed by the Provincial Delegate of Health. The first two are accused of desertion of post, with endangerment of human life, while the other two are guilty of having issued medical certificates of disability.
  Scandal in the health sector! The head of the Lalla Meriem Provincial Hospital has embarked on legal action against four (…)

• Morocco Shifts to GMT for Ramadan, Will Return to GMT+1 in May
  31 March 2021, by Ginette

  The time in Morocco will be delayed by 60 minutes on Sunday, April 11 at 03:00 a.m., in accordance with Article 2 of Decree No. 2.18.855 published on 16 Safar 1440 (October 26, 2018), relating to legal time and the order of the Head of Government No. 21.17.03 published on 16 Sha’aban 1442 (March 30, 2021), also relating to legal time, specifies the MEFRA in a press release.
  At the end of the Ramadan period, the legal time of the Kingdom will be advanced by 60 minutes (GMT +1) on Sunday, (…)

• Morocco Adjusts Government Office Hours for Ramadan, Adopts 9-3 Workday
  13 April 2021, by Ginette

  Throughout the holy month of Ramadan, working hours in public services will change, with the adoption of continuous hours, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., from Monday to Friday. The announcement was made by the Department of Public Administration Reform under the Ministry of Economy and Finance.
  This change in schedule is in accordance with an order of the Minister in charge of the Modernization of Public Sectors, No. 05.1899, published on 25 Sha’aban 1426 (September 30, 2005), setting the working (…)

• Morocco Launches Corruption Probe into Public Contract Awards Across 40 Regions
  20 August 2019, by Sylvanus

  Following numerous complaints from entrepreneurs on the grounds of accusations of corruption, the Ministry of the Interior is investigating public contracts awarded to "friendly" companies in wilayas and provinces.
  During a meeting with senior officials of the General Inspectorate of Territorial Administration, Zineb El Adaoui, Wali and Inspector General of the Ministry of the Interior, decided to schedule about fifty field inspection visits, reports the daily Assabah. The objective is to (…)

• Morocco Launches Mobile One-Stop Shop for Expats in European Cities
  20 August 2019, by Bladi.net

  Bringing administrative services closer to Moroccans of the World. This is the objective of the One-Stop Shop initiated by the Kingdom for its nationals living abroad.
  This approach is part of the proximity policy put in place to improve the administrative services intended for Moroccans residing abroad. To this end, the mobile One-Stop Shop has made a stopover in certain European cities hosting consulates of the Kingdom of Morocco.
  Several meetings were therefore initiated in Spain, (…)

• Morocco Faces €100,000 Lawsuit Over Holocaust Memorial Demolition
  29 August 2019, by Kamal

  The demolition of the Holocaust Memorial by the Moroccan authorities for lack of authorization has provoked the anger of the NGO behind the project. It has just demanded compensation of 100,000 euros from the Moroccan state for the losses suffered.
  The German NGO, Pixel Helper, had begun construction work on a space in tribute to the Jews murdered by the Nazis during the Second World War, in the Commune of Aït Fasqa, near Marrakech.
  Due to lack of authorization, the authorities (…)

• Prison Officials Deny Reports of Gang Violence at Kénitra Facility in Morocco
  7 September 2019, by Bladi.net

  No clashes between two rival gangs in the Kénitra prison. This is the false information that the prison administration is trying to refute. It provides a formal denial of the rumors circulated by certain media reporting "serious injuries resulting from knife fights, lasting two days, between minor detainees".
  It is rather a dispute between four inmates housed in the same ward, which resulted in two injured. They immediately received the necessary care at the institution’s infirmary. (…)

• Casablanca’s Municipal Archives Destroyed by Pests, Audit Reveals
  19 April 2021, by Prince

  The archives of the municipality of Casablanca and its districts have been destroyed by rats, termites and other rodents and insects. This is the finding made by the consulting firm hired by the City Council to inventory its heritage.
  The majority of the archival documents of the city of