Rabat – New COVID-19 cases in Morocco continue to drop to 444 while recoveries are now as high as 772 over the past 24 hours. Over 2.4 million people have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine while Morocco’s health authorities ha...

Rabat – Morocco’s central bank, Bank-Al-Maghrib (BAM), has established an exploratory committee to investigate the merits of a central bank-run cryptocurrency.  Cryptocurrencies have experienced widespread attention since the success of ...

Rabat – Kharboucha is undoubtedly one of the first significant characters in Morocco’s history. A woman who dared, who sang about love, who denounced political injustice and colonialism; a woman with weapons and music.  For the Moroccan peop...

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has given Moroccan club Wydad Casablanca less than 48 hours to find a venue for its upcoming CAF Champions League game against South Africa’s Kaizer Chiefs. If Wydad Casablanca does not communicate the na...

Rabat – Alex Lasry could become the first US senator of Jewish-Moroccan descent after announcing his candidacy on Thursday. Alex Lasry is the son of Marc Lasry, a hedge fund billionaire who was born to a Morrocan jewish family in Marrakech....

The vaccines that Morocco is using in its national vaccination campaign against COVID-19 are safe, assured Moroccan scientist Moncef Slaoui. In a recent interview with Le360, Slaoui spoke highly of Morocco’s “anticipative strategy” to curb COVI...

A Moroccan judge in Zagora, southeastern Morocco, has acquitted a man from adultery charges, despite living with his “second wife” without a marriage certificate, Spanish news agency EFE reported on Thursday, February 18. The defendant was accuse...

Rabat – Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) has officially launched its new datacenter that hosts Africa’s most powerful supercomputer. The new entity at UM6P will provide high performance computing (HPC) to boost research on the Africa...

Moroccan scientist Kamal Oudrhiri has contributed to the success of the Mars 2020 exploration mission that NASA launched in July 2020. Oudrhiri, who works as a project leader at NASA, was at the mission control center during the successful landing of...

Rabat – Journalist Khaled Drareni was released from Kolea prison on Friday after receiving a presidential pardon ahead of Algeria’s Hirak anniversary. The sudden release of Drareni comes as part of rapid political maneuvering by the Algerian ...