Day: March 18, 2024

Casablanca – Morocco’s flag carrier Royal Air Maroc (RAM) announced that it will launch, as part of its plan to strengthen its network and in preparation for the summer season, air routes from its Casablanca hub to Naples, Manchester and Abuja, from June 22, 2024.

The airline will resume direct flights to Naples (Italy) from June 22, with two frequencies per week (Mondays and Saturdays), says RAM in a press release.

RAM will also be launching a new air route linking Casablanca to Manchester (England) on June 23, with three frequencies per week (Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday).

On the same day, the airline will reinforce its network in Africa with a new service to Abuja, capital of Nigeria. This new direct route will operate three times a week (Tuesday, Friday and Sunday).

Source: Agence Marocaine De Presse

Rabat – His Majesty King Mohammed VI, Commander of the Faithful, may God assist Him, will chair this Monday, 07 Ramadan 1445 A.H., corresponding to March 18, 2024, at the Royal Palace in Rabat, the second religious lecture of the holy month of Ramadan, which will be given by the Vice Chancellor of Darul Huda Islamic University in India, Bahaudheen Muhammed Nadwi.

The lecture will be broadcast live on Radio and Television starting from 4.15 pm.

Source: Agence Marocaine De Presse

Rabat – Morocco and the French Development Agency (AFD) signed, Monday in Rabat, a financing agreement and a credit protocol worth 134.7 million euros (Mpound ) to finance the program to support the roadmap for the national education system reform 2022-2026.

These agreement was signed by Morocco’s Minister Delegate to the Minister of Economy and Finance, in charge of the Budget, Fouzi Lekjaa, and the French Development Agency (AFD), represented by the French Ambassador to Morocco, Christophe Lecourtier and the AFD Director in Rabat, Quiterie Pincent.

Signed in the presence of the Minister of National Education, Preschool and Sports, Chakib Benmoussa, this credit protocol and agreement respectively cover public policy budget funding of pound 130 million and a grant of pound 4.7 million to mobilize technical support for the implementation of reforms and pilot schemes planned under the Roadmap.

Speaking on the occasion Benmoussa explained that the funding is aimed in particular at the junior schools, with the
aim of reducing school dropout rates, including academic, educational and social support, as well as improving language skills, particularly in French, with the support of AFD.

Technical support will also include a set of indicators relating to implementation and expected results, with the main aim of reinforcing the established roadmap, by backing a number of other reforms, with pioneering schools being particularly targeted for the start of the school year, he explained.

For his part, Lekjaa underlined the importance of the agreement, which helps to support this reform of the education system considered crucial to Morocco’s development, pointing out that the pioneering school project, with its multiple dimensions and founding principles, occupies a central place within the framework of this reform.

Lecourtier highlighted the strategic positioning of education system reform within the new development model adopted by Morocco, noting the priority given to this issue in both Morocco and France, for the bene
fit of the younger generations in both countries.

He pointed out that the financing agreement designed to support the central objectives of the reform of the education system in Morocco also offers an opportunity for France to learn lessons that could enrich its own reforms, particularly in the face of challenges such as the falling level of mathematics, school drop-out and difficulties of access to languages.

Source: Agence Marocaine De Presse

Rabat – His Majesty King Mohammed VI, Commander of the Faithful, may God assist Him, accompanied by HRH Crown Prince Moulay El Hassan, HRH Prince Moulay Rachid and HH Prince Moulay Ismail, chaired, on Monday at the Royal Palace in Rabat, the second religious lecture of the holy month of Ramadan 1445 AH.

The lecture was given by Vice Chancellor of Darul Huda Islamic University in India, Bahaudheen Muhammed Nadwi, under the theme “The importance of religious preaching and the place of preachers”.

Muhammed Nadwi underlined that it is the Almighty’s justice of clemency not to have left Men to their own devices, but sent them messengers and prophets to invite them to God. Likewise, scholars and Ulemas have been entrusted with this same mission of Da’wa to invite people to the oneness of God, devotion and love of good for others.

In this regard, the lecturer tackled four points: the Da’wa before the advent of Islam, the Da’wa to Islam as the Prophet (PBUH) did, the Da’wa in Muslim history and the Da’wa in the co
ntemporary context.

Muhammed Nadwi underlined that the Almighty sent prophets and messengers to human beings, noting that the Holy Quran cited twenty-five messengers, all sent to their people in the area located in the Arabian Peninsula and Al Sham during the period ranging from Noah to the advent of Islam, including Ibrahim, Moses up to Jesus, adding that between one prophet and another, there is a moment of indolence that requires the advent of a new messenger.

The lecturer also highlighted the methods of contemporary preaching, both those described as traditional (collective oral preaching) or modern through the use of electronic media to guarantee their large-scale dissemination.

Tackling the incentives and obstacles to Da’wa, he raised the need for collaboration between followers of different religions to convince the irreligious of the merits of attachment to religion for the preservation of common human values, instead of competition and enrollment on the part of some faiths to the detriment of othe
rs, as well as the imperative of a consensus among Muslims to fight extremism and takfirism and respect for difference in jurisprudence between the various rites, as observed by the ancestors of the Umma.

The lecturer also stressed the importance of being convinced that individual and collective preaching should not be instrumentalized for non-religious purposes aimed at sowing confusion among people in the name of religion and that the preaching required in every era, especially today, shall be based on the civilizational example.

At the end of this lecture, His Majesty the King, Commander of the Faithful, was greeted by Sheikh Moustapha Sonta, president of the Ivorian Section of the Mohammed VI Foundation of African Ulema and Caliph General of the Tidjanes in Côte d’Ivoire, Abdelhakim Mohamed El Aniss, chief researcher and member of the High Authority of Ulema at the Islamic Affairs and Charitable Activities Department in Dubai (United Arab Emirates), Abd Al-Fattah Bin Salih Qadish Al-Yafei, general super
visor of the Khairate center in Yemen, Abou Bakr Zoubeir Mbouana, president of the Tanzanian section of the Mohammed VI Foundation of African Ulema, Mufti of the Republic and president of the Tanzanian High Council for Islamic Affairs, and Ahmed Nour Mohamed Lahlou, member of the Chadian section of the Mohammed Foundation VI of African ulema and General Mufti of the Republic.

The Sovereign was also greeted by Akram Nadwi, Director and one of the founders of the Al Salam Institute in Oxford in Great Britain, Salim Alwan, Secretary General of Dar Al-Fatwa in Australia, Omarou Camara Abou Bakr, president of the Liberian section of the Mohammed VI Foundation of African Ulema and president of the National Muslim Council, Madhar Mohamed Al Hamoui, member of the Higher Islamic Council in Lebanon, Muhammad Al-Amine Touray, president of the Gambian section of the Mohammed VI Foundation of African Ulema, Salah Nday, president of the Central African section of the Mohammed VI Foundation of African Ulema, and Sheikh Mam
adou Abudo Bachi, president of the Togolese section of the Mohammed VI Foundation of African Ulema.

At the end of this second religious lecture, the Minister of Endowments and Islamic Affairs presented to His Majesty the King, Commander of the Faithful, may God preserve Him, a facsimile of the manuscript “Dalail Al Khayrate” by Sheikh Mohamed Ben Slimane Al-Jazouli (857H/1453 G), on a calligraphy by Mohamed Ben Al Kacem Al Qandoussi Al Fassi (died in 1278H/1861 G in Fez).

Source: Agence Marocaine De Presse