1. Listed Companies: A turnover of 230 billion Dirham generated in 2016: "The Moroccan companies listed in the Casablanca Stock Exchange are doing well. The year 2016, characterized by a gloomy appearance, with one of the lowest growth rates of the past 15 years, has nevertheless witnessed a resilient performance on the part of the listed financial and non-financial companies, with unparalleled financial and commercial feats. Thereby, the aggregate turnover shows unexpected growth of a 4.7% to 229.9 billion Dirham. The beneficiary mass is an improvement of a 12.7% to 28.6 billion."
2. 200 million Euro for the two irrigation projects: ""Two irrigation projects benefited from a global grant of 51.5 million Euro from the Green Climate Fund (FVC) and loans from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) of 120 million Euro and from the French Development Agency (AFD) of 41 million Euro," announced the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Rural Development and Water and Forests on Friday. "The FVC donation, approved at its board of directors in Songdo, South Korea on Thursday, and the loans from the EBRD and AFD are destined to finance the Boudnib perimeter hydro-agricultural development project associated with the Barrage Kaddoussa on the Project for the Safeguarding of the Irrigated Plain of Saiss," said the ministry in a statement."
3. AccorHotels acquires VeryChic to make it the world leader: "AccorHotels announces the acquisition of VeryChic, the digital platform of the private sales of hotels, apartments, cruises, stays and luxury packages. Created in 2011 by Nicolas Clair, Hervé Lafont and Charles Decaux, VeryChic allows more than 3,000 luxury and upscale partner hotels, an optimization of their distribution and access to new customers through its private sales. VeryChic carefully selects the proposed hotels in some forty countries around the world, to ensure a unique experience for each of its members."
4. The human development policies and programs under the magnifying glass of the NOHD: "The National Observatory of the Human Development (NOHD) plans to assess the local governance and the territorial convergence of the human development actions. The institution will sponsor, in the 28th of April, by 3.3 million Dirham, the evaluation study. "As part of its monitoring and evaluation missions to the human development policies and programs, the NOHD plans to assess the governance and convergence of programs, projects and other human development actions carried out at the various territorial scales of the country," indicates the NOHD."
5. "Min Ajliki" restarts for a second phase 2.0: "When it comes to encouraging and supporting the women's entrepreneurship in Morocco, no initiative is too much, and no help is superfluous. Anyway, the Association for the Promotion of Education and Training Abroad (APETA) and its partners are far from being so if we consider the encouraging results of the pilot phase of the "Min Ajliki" program and the promising objectives of the second phase called "Min Ajliki 2.0". This has just been officially launched following the signing in Rabat of the partnership agreements linking APETA to its partners, whose number has almost doubled in this version 2.0. A version that wants to be "closer to the regions, the local context and consequently the beneficiaries themselves," as underlined by HE Mr. Frank Carruet at the launching ceremony."
Crédit : IMPERIUM MEDIA
