The national Beach Soccer team got off to a bad start in the 2022 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers. The Atlas Lions indeed lost (7-6) to their counterparts from Côte d’Ivoire on Sunday in Abidjan, in the first leg of this phase.
By qualifying Morocco for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, Vahid Halilhodzic makes history. He becomes the first coach in the world to participate in four consecutive World Cup editions with four different national teams.
French President Emmanuel Macron was in open dialogue last Friday with eleven young Africans from Morocco, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, or Mali, during the new-format Africa-France summit held in Montpellier, to which no African state was invited. On this occasion, he paid tribute to dual nationals.
Franco-Senegalese Mountaga Diop, founder of the Kirikou association, discusses the situation of women from Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Congo or Guinea who become mothers during their migration to Morocco.
More than one refugee out of two, or 54.4%, is of Syrian origin, according to the High Commission for Planning (HCP) which conducted a survey on forced migration in Morocco in the first quarter.
Over the past ten years, investments by Moroccan companies in the African continent have increased considerably. Thus, Morocco has become one of the leading investors in several economic zones.
In Casablanca , police officers surprised an Ivorian student by inviting him to break the fast with them. The young man hails "the face of South-South cooperation, the acceptance of the other in his differences".
Morocco made, on November 27 last, the first payment of its share related to the capital increase of the African Development Bank (AfDB). Algiers and Abidjan will also make their payment during the year 2021, like other African countries.
Through its "OM Africa" label, Olympique de Marseille (OM) has unveiled three lifestyle jerseys that highlight Morocco, Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire. Imagined and designed by Puma, these outfits display the national flag colors of these countries.
The engineering subsidiary of the Moroccan Motorways (ADM) group, ADM Projet, is accumulating contracts on the African continent. Several African countries have already and continue to benefit from its expertise.
A memorandum of understanding was signed on Friday between the Ivorian government and OCP Africa, a subsidiary of the Moroccan Group OCP. The objective is to inject new momentum into rice production in this West African country.
The former amateur player in Italy who became a smuggler in Morocco, David Coulibaly, was found dead in the forest of Oujda .