The European Union is coming to the aid of Morocco in the fight against Covid-19. It has just made 169 million euros available to the Moroccan authorities to strengthen the medical response and implement measures to mitigate the socio-economic impact of the pandemic.
The Directorate of Ports and the Maritime Public Domain of the Moroccan Ministry of Equipment has just launched the call for tenders, with pre-selection, for the construction work of the strategic Atlantique Dakhla port. The opening of the bids is scheduled for January 21, 2021 at 10 a.m. in Rabat.
Due to lack of space to accommodate new equipment manufacturers, the industrial acceleration zone of Kénitra will be expanded again. The protocol agreement was signed between the Minister of Industry and Trade, Moulay Hafid Elalamy and the CEO of CDG, Abdellatif Zaghnoun.
The American startup Soluna Technologies and AM WIND plan to build a 900 MW wind farm in Dakhla, on an area of 11,313 hectares, to power servers dedicated to blockchain technologies. An initial investment of 15 billion dirhams will be dedicated to the project.
The French State has decided to close the MHS Paris college-high school, the only Muslim secondary school in the city, for security reasons. 110 students are thus left out of school in the middle of the year and 18 workers are left without a job.
The government has decided to exempt from income tax (IR) employees who have regained the jobs they lost during the coronavirus health crisis.
300 Moroccan seasonal workers are about to join the Bouches-du-Rhône and Vaucluse regions in France. They are being called upon by agricultural operators, who are short of manpower, following the closure of borders.
More and more Muslim women wearing headscarves are leaving France to live their faith and have a fulfilling professional life, away from the looks that stick to the veil, all the sins of the world. This is revealed by an investigation by the magazine Slate.
A scammer who was active in Salé was put out of action on Sunday, during a joint operation between the judicial police services of Chefchaouen and Salé. The individual is being prosecuted in a case of fraud, forgery and use of forgery.
The French food multinational Danone, which has a subsidiary in Morocco , plans to cut 25% of its workforce in these times of health crisis related to Covid-19. Are its Moroccan employees affected by this wave of job cuts?
The labor market is still not very secure in Morocco. Thus, 55% of employees do not have a contract proving their agreement with the employer, according to the national employment survey.
The deterioration of labor market indicators related to Covid-19 accelerated in the third quarter of 2020, with a worsening of the structural decline in the activity rate, employment and an increase in the unemployment rate, particularly among young people, women and graduates in Morocco, according to the HCP.