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As they were trying to enter the Sahara to organize a week of visits, four Basque parliamentarians from the "Peace and Freedom Intergroup for the Sahrawi people" were turned back by the Moroccan authorities.
After the official opening of the 18th edition of the Marrakech International Film Festival (FIFM) on Friday, November 30, Princess Lalla Hasnaa presided over a dinner offered by King Mohammed VI on Saturday at the Palais des Congrès in the ochre city.
Become a green oil exporter before 2030. This is the ambition of Morocco according to the Institute for Solar Energy and Renewable Energies Research (IRESEN). Last Friday, the Institute announced that it will start the realization of its platforms and those of its partners dedicated to green hydrogen and ammonia from January 2020.
At the 16th edition of the International Invention Fair (INFOINVENT-2019), held from November 20 to 23 in Moldova, Majid El Bouzzaoui, a Moroccan, stood out by winning the gold medal.
A notary was sentenced by the Casablanca Court of Appeal to three years in prison, for breach of trust and fraud. In addition to this case, she is also being prosecuted in another case related to the spoliation of a real estate property. In total, this notary is ordered to pay 1,500,000 dirhams in damages to her victims.
The revival of the tourism sector is a major concern at the Ministry of Tourism. To succeed in this mission, the new Minister Nadia Fettah intends to focus her actions on the revitalization of mixed sectors and financing.
The city of Casablanca narrowly avoided a case of suicide on Friday, November 29. Indeed, about ten orphaned children, former residents of the Islamic orphanage in Ain Chock, in despair, tried to throw themselves from the top of the Sidi Maârouf bridge.
The Interbank Monetary Center (CMI) has just partnered with the Moroccan company AfricaPass to launch the Alipay payment solution, in order to boost Chinese tourist activity in Morocco.
Barely arrived at the head of the Moroccan national team, disillusionment seemed to have gotten the better of coach Vahid Halilhodzic. While he was tempted to throw in the towel, the Bosnian finally changed his mind, reinvigorated by the victory obtained against Burundi.
The "Bab Darna" affair, a real real estate fraud scandal that led to the arrest on November 21 of Mohamed El Ouardi, president of the incriminated company, continues to make headlines. Among the victims, hundreds of MREs who have invested large sums of money.
Brazilian customs officers seized, on Tuesday, November 26, 1,347 kilograms of cocaine hidden in a cargo of sugar. The goods, which were supposed to leave the port of Santos, in Sao Paulo, had Morocco as their final destination.
A drug trafficker was recently arrested by the anti-drug brigade of the prefectural judicial police service in Marrakech. This repeat offender was in possession of hard drugs.