LE MATIN DU SAHARA:
Accompanied by Mrs. Dominique Ouattara: H.R.H. the Princess Lalla Salma presides over the opening of the 23rd Fes Festival of Sacred Music of the World: "H.R.H. the Princess Lalla Salma, accompanied by Mrs. Dominique Ouattara, presided over, in Fes on Friday, the opening ceremony of the 23rd Festival of Fes Sacred Music of the World, organized under the High Patronage of His Majesty the King Mohammed VI around the theme "Water and the sacred". Marking the opening of this festival, this magnificent creation, "Spirit on the Water", consists of a poetic journey which, starting from the fountains of Fez, these masterpieces from which the water flows, will guide the viewer to the source in the heart of the mountains and to the ocean."
61st anniversary of the creation of the FAR: The Royal Armed Forces, an institution at the service of the achievements' defense and the sovereignty of the Nation: "The Royal Armed Forces (FAR), which celebrate this Sunday the 61st anniversary of their creation, are regarded by the Moroccan people as a national pride that defends the achievements and sovereignty of the Kingdom with tenacity, determination, and positive reactivity. The celebration of this event is an opportunity to salute the heroic efforts and actions that this noble institution has made for 61 years in the march of building and defending the integrity and the sacred values of the homeland. Since independence, the father of the Nation, the King Mohammed V, has decided to endow Morocco with a modern and professional army as the first symbol of national sovereignty, and entrusted the responsibility of directing it and overseeing its development to the King Hassan II, the Crown Prince at the time, who held during his reign to perfect its organization and to modernize its armaments and equipment, and to improve its human, material, and technical capabilities."
Through its joint venture JESA: OCP Group strengthens in engineering in Africa: "Jacobs Engineering, a subsidiary of the OCP Group, is continuing its deployment in Africa. After Ivory Coast, the company will soon offer other offices in Ethiopia, Guinea Conakry, and Rwanda. The development of African engineering is now an integral part of its growth strategy."
AL BAYANE:
The theater and the "command"... which from the idea or the spectacle, triumph? : "Can we do theater to command?" To this question, which has come to our attention as a result of the programming of a series of plays to raise awareness of AIDS, cancer, violence against women, death penalty in Morocco, or the patrimonial regime, has led us to an impassable labyrinth of questions that we have transposed to five great names in the Moroccan theater."
PLF 2017: The GPPS delivers its observation: ""The discussion on the Finance Bill (PLF) in Parliament is proceeding in a constructive manner and the government devotes each of its weekly meetings to one of the major projects and reforms," said the head of government, Saad Eddine El Othmani, on Thursday. After welcoming the efforts of the members of the Government to discuss the PLF in Parliament, Mr. El Othmani said that these discussions were proceeding in a constructive and methodological manner which consists devoting each meeting of the Council of the Government to one of the major projects and reforms."
MINUSCA: Hilale presents its condolences to the families of the victims of the ambush: "Following the cowardly attack on the Moroccan and Cambodian peacekeepers of the United Nations Stabilization Mission of Central Africa, the Ambassador Omar Hilale, the Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Morocco to the United Nations and the President of the Configuring of the Central African Republic of the Commission of Consolidation of the Peace, on behalf of the members of the Configuration, made public the statement to the following press."
L'OPINION:
Health Strategy 2017-2021: The government far from giving itself the means of its ambitions: ""Consolidating the achievements of the different strategies and measures taken by previous governments, improving access to care, and shortening appointment deadlines to reach universal health coverage and to make essential medicines available to the citizen, among other essential axes of the 2017-2021 health strategy," announced recently by the minister in charge of the sector, Mr. El Houcine Louardi."
Weakly anchored in Moroccan habits: The electronic payment is hard to impose against cash: "Representing just 10% of transactions, the electronic payment struggles to impose itself against the cash strongly anchored in Moroccan habits. This is, in any case, the recently made finding in Casablanca, at the first edition of Mpay Forum gathering nearly 150 participants, including several bankers, telecom operators, application developers, and integrated payment solution providers around the theme: "2017, the year of the emergence of M-payment"."
2017-2018's back to school: Urgent measures to improve the reception conditions of pupils: "The Minister of National Education, Vocational Training, Higher Education, and Scientific Research, Mohamed Hassad, assured, in Rabat on Thursday, that his department will take a series of urgent measures for the upgrading of the school space and the improvement of the reception conditions for pupils during the next school year."
LIBERATION:
Breaking the omerta: Transparency and the International Association of Women Judges determined to combat sextorsion: "Sexual extortion is in the line of sight of Transparency Maroc (TM). Indeed, this NGO has launched, in partnership with the International Association of Women Judges (IAWJ) and Transparency International (TI) a project to study and investigate the impact of corruption on women with the aim of promoting gender-sensitive anti-corruption discourse."
More than two million spectators expected at the Mawazine Festival: "The Mawazine Festival Rhythms of the World, which blows this year its 16th candle, pays tribute as usual to cultural diversity with the stars of international, western, Moroccan, and African music. The festival-goers of this annual cultural event of the capital, which takes place from 12 to 20 May, will have a wide range of choices offered by the different scenes set up for the occasion. On the Nahda stage Oriental space par excellence, the greatest voices of oriental music will present the festival-goers with a unique opportunity to discover the best of the modern and classical repertoire of the region. The curtain rising of the festivities was assured by Sami Yusuf, the most prominent Muslim artist in the world, before being succeeded alternately by Majid Al Mohandis, Nawal El Zoghbi, Al Salem, Hussein El Deek, Fares Karam, Najwa Karam, Tamer Hosny, Asmae Lamnawar, Hatim Ammor, and Georges Wassouf."
Crédit : IMPERIUM MEDIA
