
New Economic Zone Opens in Fnideq, Morocco to Combat Smuggling
The economic activity zone of Fnideq welcomed its first merchants on Saturday, February 12, during a visit chaired by the Wali of the Tanger-Tétouan-Al Hoceima region, Mohamed Mhidia.
Sébastien A.

The economic activity zone of Fnideq welcomed its first merchants on Saturday, February 12, during a visit chaired by the Wali of the Tanger-Tétouan-Al Hoceima region, Mohamed Mhidia.

The Moroccan currency depreciated by 0.62% against the euro and appreciated by 0.47% against the US dollar, during the period from February 3 to 9, 2022. This is what the indicators published by Bank Al-Maghrib (BAM) indicate.

Moroccan researchers from the Hassan II University in Casablanca have invented a robot (VES4 device) to extract scorpion venom.

During his visit to Morocco, M’jid El Guerrab , outgoing French deputy from the 9th constituency of French citizens abroad, assured that the difficulties hindering the procedure for issuing French visas for Moroccan nationals will be lifted within a few weeks.

For two years, the health crisis related to the coronavirus has had a negative impact on the activity of fortune-tellers, also called "chouwafates". Their morale has started to decline.

The Grenoble Criminal Court sentenced a 48-year-old man to 10 months in prison, 5 of which were suspended, for having damaged two Muslim prayer rooms, in Domène and La Mure (Isère), at the end of December 2021.

Morocco ranks 80th out of 163 countries in the 2022 Positive Peace Index. This emerges from the ranking of the Australian think tank Institute of Economics and Peace (IEP).

Frank Lampard, Everton’s new manager, wants to secure the services of Moroccan international Noussair Mazraoui , whose contract with Ajax expires in less than six months.

Brahim Ghali, leader of the Polisario independence movement and president of the "Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR)", would be expected at the sixth European Union-African Union summit, which Morocco will also attend. His possible attendance at this meeting could undermine relations between Europe and the kingdom.

Several tenant and housing associations such as the Union sociale pour l’habitat (USH) have decided to file a complaint against the candidate of the Reconquête party, Eric Zemmour, for whom "social housing are lands of Islamization".

Morocco is the second most popular destination for French people for winter holidays. This is the result of the ranking of the online comparator Liligo, which conducted a study in collaboration with the polling institute Opinionway.

During the debates on a text from the Mouvement réformateur (MR) aimed at maintaining an intergenerational aid/platform in the Brussels Parliament on Friday, the Brussels deputy Ahmed Mouhssin (Ecolo) attacked the president of the MR, Georges-Louis Bouchez, accusing him of "questioning Islamophobia", "supporting (Eric) Zemmour", and "standing in solidarity with a racist and an anti-Semite."