Nadia El A.
"Kartika" traffickers are obtaining large agricultural lands, installing unauthorized wells and overexploiting the rivers and springs of the Kingdom without authorization. Faced with the scale of the situation, NGOs in northern Morocco are sounding the alarm.
The 2021 investment budget of the Moroccan Ministry of Energy and Mines is showing a sharp decline. Amounting to nearly 63.8 MDH, it is down 50.76% compared to the 129.58 MDH of the year 2020. Here’s why.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has just classified several African countries at level 3 of the Covid-19 risk. Unfortunately, Morocco is one of them.
Water stress is real in Agadir, the leading exporting region for citrus fruits and early produce. Even though the Moroccan economy is largely dependent on the development of the agricultural sector, the current situation requires the deprivation of irrigation of the region’s farms by the dams, in order to meet the demand for drinking water of the population.
Mohamed Ouled Lamine, former diplomat, former advisor to the Mauritanian president and former Minister of Information is clear: supporting the creation of a sixth state in the Maghreb region will be a historical sin.
Thanks to the presence of Moroccan seasonal workers, the clementine harvest was successful in Corsica. "Without them, it’s a 40% loss in fruit," acknowledges François-Xavier Ceccoli, producer and president of the Corsica comptoir group, even though the health crisis has reduced sales by 20%.
The number of deaths caused by "terrorism motivated by the far-right" has seen a worrying increase over the past five years, a 709% increase in deaths, in contrast to other forms of terrorism, including radical Islamists, which have seen a 15% decrease in deaths. This is according to the annual Global Terrorism Index (GTI) published on Wednesday by the Australian Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP).
While the issue of conversion to Islam, estimated between 150 and 200 per year, is not often addressed by the Catholic Church, this is not the case with evangelicals. Interviewed by Le Point , the pastor of Moroccan origin, Saïd Oujibou, addresses the issue of "Islamist proselytism" and is concerned about a lack of solidarity within the ranks of evangelicals.
Despite the difficult health situation the world is going through, the export of agricultural products continues to rise in Morocco. The prospects for this sector are also very encouraging.
The "Clean Hands" operation led by the services of the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) has just pinpointed four other offenders of the provisions of the state of health emergency in the city of Casablanca. Thus, no less than 117 restaurants in the metropolis have been closed since the launch of this operation.
The rector of the Grand Mosque of Lyon and president of the Council of Mosques of the Rhône, Kamel Kabtane, disapproves of the project of the National Council of Imams (CNI) set up by the Élysée and attested by the leaders of the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM). He indicated this in a press release dated Thursday.
An agreement in principle has been reached between private laboratories and the National Health Insurance Agency (ANAM) to make the cost of Covid-19 screening tests (PCR) more accessible. The price will drop from 700 to 450 dirhams in the private sector and from 500 to 300 dirhams in public institutes.