The Tanger prosecutor’s office has decided to open an investigation into the ten "doubtful" suicides recorded in one year at the Errazi psychiatric hospital in Tanger. The bodies of some of the victims bore bruises on the head and signs of strangulation.
The dirham appreciated against the US dollar during the week of March 27 to 31, with the USD/MAD pair moving from 10.29 to 10.22, according to Attijari Global Research (AGR).
The concert of Bilal Hassani , scheduled for Wednesday evening in the former Basilica of Saint-Pierre-aux-Nonnains in Metz, was canceled by the production due to a controversy sparked by the singer’s sexual orientation. The local Catholic and traditionalist community strongly criticized the presence of the Moroccan-origin singer as a standard-bearer of the LGBT+ community.
In France, Morocco is still popular. It is among the sunny destinations favored by the people of Nantes who have "a desire to get away" this summer.
Khalid Naciri , former Minister of Communication under the El Fassi government and one of the leaders of the Party of Progress and Socialism (PPS), died on Wednesday evening in a clinic in Rabat at the age of 77. A distinguished diplomat and communicator, Naciri had held several high-level positions in his career.
The public prosecutor’s office has ordered the opening of an investigation into a French mission school that parents accuse of having presented information about homosexuality to their children in a country where it is prohibited and punished by law.
By modernizing its army through the acquisition of state-of-the-art equipment and diversifying its sources of arms supply, Morocco has changed the balance of power in the region, according to a Spanish newspaper.
The Party of Justice and Development (PJD) joins the calls to boycott the concert of French rapper Booba, scheduled for June 21 in Casablanca, by asking the Minister of Youth, Culture and Communication, Mohamed Mehdi Bensaid, to ban it.
A UAE-listed energy company has decided to support the British company Xlinks in charge of building a submarine cable connecting Morocco to the United Kingdom .
A Spanish tiktoker and her two friends, visiting Morocco, were abandoned by the bus driver who was transporting them during an outing. The driver left them in the vehicle for hours, in a place in Tangier, to go break the Ramadan fast.
The Korean group LG Energy Solution, the world’s second largest producer of batteries for electric vehicles, has decided to set up in Morocco to produce lithium hydroxide.
Renault Group Maroc has exceeded its local integration and local sourcing targets ahead of schedule, surpassing the commitments of the Renault ecosystem. Indeed, with a local integration rate , excluding mechanics, reaching 65.2% in 2022 for a target of 65% in 2023, and a local sourcing turnover of 1.86 billion euros in 2022, an increase of 40% compared to 2021, the automotive group is posting exceptional performance.