Regional

Rabat - The loan agreement and the guarantee agreement relating to the additional financing of the Support Program to the Commune of Casablanca which is financed by the World Bank (WB), were signed, on Tuesday in Rabat, for an amount of 94.7 million euros (M€), the Ministry of Economy and Finance said.

Rabat - Twenty people died and 2,341 were injured, including 78 seriously, in 1,731 traffic accidents that occurred in urban areas during the week from March 20 to 26, the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) said Tuesday.

Rabat - A total of 37 COVID-19 infections have been recorded in the last seven days, said the Ministry of Health and Social Protection in its weekly bulletin covering the period from March 18 to 24.

El Jadida - Elements of the El Jadida provincial judicial police arrested, on Friday morning, five individuals, including three who were subject to national wanted notices, for their alleged involvement in a case of possession and trafficking of different drug types, brandy distillation, and possession of unauthorized firearms, a security source said.

Rabat - Local authorities on Tuesday rescued five sailors and retrieved ten other bodies near the fishing village of Roc Choico in the province of Aousserd, 220 km away from Dakhla, as the sailors' trawler was sinking.

Rabat - The Royal Navy coastguards, operating off the coast of Nador and Jebha, seized on Monday 41 bales of cannabis resin, locally known as "Chira", with a total weight of more than one and a half tons, said a military source.

Geneva - With ambitious policies and concrete projects, Morocco embodies the dream of African unity, in a context of global strategic changes that place Africa at the center of all covetousness, said Ivorian economic expert Adama Adjomayi.

Rabat - A delegation of the directors of the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) in 15 countries of the Middle East and North Africa visited, on Thursday, the National Center for Executive Training (CNFC) under the General Delegation for Penitentiary Administration and Rehabilitation (DGAPR) in Tiflet, as part of the cooperation agreement between the DGAPR and the INL, an agency under the U.S. State Department.

Salé - The alleged perpetrators of the intentional homicide and mutilation of the body of a policeman in Casablanca have recently been imbued with extremist thinking and adopted the modus operandi and tactics of individual terrorism, the director of the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ) Cherkaoui Habboub said Friday in Salé.