After the end of the diplomatic quarrel between the two countries , the Moroccan Foreign Minister received Berlin’s new representative in Rabat, Robert Dolger. The latter presented him with figurative copies of his credentials in his capacity as Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to HM King Mohammed VI,” Bourita’s department said on Twitter.
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Kick-off to the 20th edition of the Meknes International Animation Film Festival
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
This year, the festival honors Philippe Peythieu and Veronique Augereau who, since 1990, have dubbed the French voices of Marge and Homer in the Simpsonscult animated series. The two actors, true masters of dubbing, will lead an exceptional course on the art of dubbing, on Saturday May 7 at 12hat the Media Library of the French Institute of Meknes as part of the Mint Teas with, one of the moments keys of the festival.
During the opening ceremony, the festival’s two American guests, director Alex Kronmer and producer Sam Kadi, premiered Le poem by Lamya, a feature film animation whose story is that of Lamya, a young Syrian discovering the poetry of Jallal Eddine Rumiindicates the Aicha Foundation in a press release, noting that the festival announces the color of a rich and open program to the world. Thus, Lamya’s poem opens the International Competition of feature films animation. It will be followed, in the evening, by “La Traversée”, a feature film in animated painting, in the presence of the director Florence Miailhe.
This first day of the festival was also the occasion for the launch of the first Forum of Animation Film Professions in Morocco, which will be held on May 6, 7 and 8, 2022. The call for tenders 2M et Al Oula pour the, the production of the first Moroccan animation series opened new horizons for the development of animation in the kingdom. A historic initiative that is helping to revitalize this promising and job-creating sector. So the STAY accompanies this dynamic by launching this forum which brings together animation studios as well as the National Institute of Fine Arts of Tetouan and theSchool of Fine Arts from Casablanca.
In this perspective, the Moroccan studios Never Seen et Thank you presented, as part of Lfuture in pictures, their experiences as well as episodes of the series produced by the Moroccan channels Al Oula et 2M.
The same source explains that this is a first of its kind for the STAY and his team, who have been working for more than two decades to promote animation film professionals in Morocco.
Always when of this opening night, the AICHA Animation Grand Prize 2022 was awarded to “Irréversible”, a project by short film animation worn by Kenza El Hamzaoui et Chaimaa Lahnechyoung winners of the National Institute of Fine Arts in Tetouan, and the first two women to win the Grand Prix Aïcha de l’Animation since its creation in 2005.
The opening of this 20th edition was also marked by the launch of school screenings as well as the start of the training component of the STAY which is dedicated to Moroccan public schools of art and cinema, and which this year will benefit more than 150 students participating in the various workshops of the festival.
the cash balance deficit stands at 84.9 billion dirhams
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
According to the research office affiliated with the Moroccan Foreign Trade Bank (BMCE)the bank liquidity deficit, mainly impacted by international reserves and the net position of the Treasury, widened by 1,43% to 84.9 billion dirhams, on a weekly average during the week of April 28 to May 4.
In this sense, advances to seven days of Bank Al-Maghrib (BAM) increased from 9.66 billion dirhams to 48.95 billion dirhams, notes the central bank of Morocco in its latest note “ Fixed Income Weekly ».
For their part, Treasury investments recorded a slight increase as evidenced by the maximum daily outstanding amount which stood at 603 billion dirhams on 29 April, once morest a maximum daily outstanding amount of 12.9 billion dirhams during the previous period.
The note shows that the weighted average rate (TMP) remained stable at 1,5% while the benchmark overnight monetary index, which is calculated on the basis of repurchase transactions with treasury bills as collateral, fell by 1,465% versus 1,468% at the end of the previous period.
In the coming period, BAM is expected to reduce its intervention in the money market by pumping out 46.8 billion dirhams in 7-day advances, once morest 48.95 billion dirhams the previous week.
UJPLA statement on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day on May 03, 2022
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
The Union of Journalists of the Free African Press (UJPLA) would first like to welcome the proclamation of this World Press Freedom Day (in December 1993) and reaffirm its clear, resolute and determined commitment to continue its action in favor of the promotion, defense and protection of this fundamental freedom as well as for the safety of journalists and media actors.
In our world plagued by all dangers, pandemics, crises, security, digital and technological threats and attacks, climatic and environmental degradation, etc.
The UJPLA would like to pay tribute to the memory of journalists who have fallen in the field of honor or who have been harassed in the exercise or defense of their profession.
The UJPLA invites, on this World Press Freedom Day 2022, all countries to work tirelessly, with information and press professionals in all forms, to create the appropriate conditions for the advent of a free, professional, credible, viable and responsible press.
The UJPLA reaffirms its unshakeable will to contribute with and alongside other national and international organizations of journalists, to the growth, to the saving and salutary action of international repositioning of Africa on the world stage, to its rebirth and to its influence in the concert of nations, of course on the basis of democracy, security (of journalists), the rule of law, justice and peace.
For the UJPLA, these constitute, in fact, the prerequisites for any real sustainable human development.
The UJPLA wishes a happy World Press Freedom Day to all its members as well as to all journalists, actors, professionals, etc., world press and information.