Morocco

An agreement has been signed with Italy on the mutual recognition of driving licenses, an arrangement to remove obstacles faced by Moroccans residing in Italy when converting their licenses with Italian registration authorities

As temperatures rise and rainfall shifts, janitors at world-famous Jardin Majorelle in Marrakech have implemented several solutions, such as reducing water-intensive plants

Morocco's efforts to combat trafficking in psychotropic and psychoactive substances were highlighted at a side event organized in conjunction with the 67th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs

Some of Morocco's renown public baths are closing a few days a week to save water, in consequence of a years-long of water scarcity

Initially scheduled for January-February 2025, a new speculation suggests that the African Cup of Nations 2025 could be held in the summer, with the Confederation of African Football agreeing to hold the competition in July-August 2025 in Morocco

The 80 human footprints discovered in 2022 in Larache, south of Tangier, date from around 100.000 years ago; the footprints were dated by a study recently published in the journal Nature according to which they are Homo sapiens footprints

The controversy over the waste that ends up in the country from the European Union has been reignited, after Eurostat stated that the kingdom imported 0,8 million tonnes of European waste in 2022

Bouchra Karboubi, from Morocco, has become the first Arab woman to referee an African Cup of Nations football match, having refereed the match between Nigeria and Guinea Bissau, at the Felix-Houphouet-Boigny stadium in Abidjan

The country won the vote to head the UN Human Rights Council after a heated showdown with South Africa, which argued that Rabat's human rights record made it unfit to chair the body

The school calendar, at all levels, will be extended by one week and the baccalaureate exams will be postponed, starting on 10 June 2024, as part of measures in response to three months of strikes by teachers

The poverty rate in Morocco has increased, multiplying by 4 in two years, due to the 2020 health crisis, lockouts and job losses, reported the Royal Institute of Strategic Studies

The 2nd edition of the African Book Festival in Marrakech, to take place from 8 to 11 February 2024, has been announced, with a rich programme focusing on the editorial and scientific current affairs of African writers, thinkers and intellectuals