News:  Moroccan Press Headlines:  Monday, September 3, 2018

AFCM denies the existence of a shortage of school notebooks: Following the publication of defamatory information tending to mislead Moroccan public opinion, AFCM assured in a press release that "no shortage of school notebooks has been recorded", stressing that "to date, traffic at all points of sale is assured and local producers cover the national need for notebooks on a regular and constant basis".

Youssef Benjelloun re-elected President of the House of Mediterranean Sea Fisheries: Youssef Benjelloun, from the Justice and Development Party (PJD), was elected, in Tangier, on Friday, President of the House of Mediterranean Sea Fisheries for the third consecutive time.

Mr. Benjelloun, sole candidate, was re-elected for a third term, unanimously by the members present, in the evening by 29 votes of the 35 members constituting the House of Fisheries, and this within the framework of the renewal of the office of the House of Sea Fisheries of the Mediterranean for the period 2018-2021, in accordance with the provisions of Dahir n. 1-97-88 promulgating Law No. 04-97 forming the Statute of Sea Fisheries Houses. Composed of 12 members, the office also includes...

AL BAYANE

1st Summer University of the CGEM: The strengthening of business in debate: The CGEM will hold the 1st edition of its Summer University on September 28 and 29, on the ISCRE campus in Casablanca, and will be a highlight for the business world. Through this university, the confederation intends to mobilize its members and fully play its role as a federator of regions and professional federations. Business leaders will have the opportunity to debate and invite the state and intellectual elites to question the economic and social challenges we face and the solutions to bring...

 FEC: 5.5 billion dirhams (MMDH) of loans to local authorities in 2017: "The Local Equipment Fund (FEC) granted in 2017 to local authorities loans in the order of 5.5 MMDH against 3.1 MMDH in 2016, an increase by 86%". The figures are specified last Friday, in Rabat, by the Minister Delegate to the Minister of the Interior, Noureddine Boutayeb, who presided over the installation ceremony of Omar Lahlou that 5M the King Mohammed VI recently appointed governor general of the FEC. According to Mr. Boutayeb, these loans constituted an essential lever allowing the financing of a series of development projects with an estimated total value of 16 MMDH...

Aujourd'hui le Maroc

Morocco's participation in the China-Africa Summit: On the order of HM the King, the Head of Government Saad Dine El Othmani begins a visit to the Popular Republic of China, on Sunday, to participate in the China-Africa Summit to be held in Beijing, according to a statement issued, on Saturday, by the department of the Head of Government...

Mutually beneficial relations: The origin of Moroccan-Russian relations dates back to 1777, when Sultan Mohammed Ben Abdallah proposed to the Empress of Russia Catherine II to establish contacts and trade between the two empires. It was also in November 1897, that a Russian consulate general was opened in Tangier, while diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Morocco were established on September 1, 1958...

Liberation

Moroccan notebook manufacturers' association, There is no shortage of school notebooks: On Saturday, the Moroccan notebook manufacturers' association denied the existence of a shortage of school notebooks, noting that local producers cover the national need for notebooks on a regular and constant basis.

Following the publication of defamatory information tending to mislead Moroccan public opinion, the AFCM assured in a press release that there was no shortage of school notebooks", stressing that "to date, the traffic of all points of sale is assured and local producers cover the national need for notebooks on a regular and constant basis"...

Opinion

University: The Court of Auditors lists the anomalies of continuing training: After noting that the process of initial training provided by universities suffers from several anomalies, the Court of Auditors noted in its annual report for the years 2016 and 2017 that the management of continuing training provided by universities suffers from the lack of regulatory cadt'e and monitoring by the ministry responsible... Poultry: FISA BtoB Mission in Ghana, Togo, and Benin:  The Interprofessional Federation of the Poultry Sector in Morocco (FISA) is organizing, in collaboration with the Autonomous Establishment for Export Control and Coordination (EACCE), a BtoB mission to Ghana, Togo, and Benin from September 23 to 29. "The Interprofessional Federation of the poultry sector in Morocco (FISA) is organizing in collaboration with the Autonomous Establishment for Export Control and Coordination (EACCE) a BtoB mission to Ghana (September 23-25), Togo (September 25-27), and Benin (September 27-29)," FISA said in a statement received by MAP.

le Matin

Douja Promotion: Alert on results: Douja Promotion, Addoha Group, has just announced a "reconfiguration of certain projects budgeted in 2018, particularly for liaut standing programmes".  In concrete terms, this should translate into a drop in the number of Aftaires of nearly 15%, to June 2018, compared to the first half of 2017.  This will consequently affect consolidated net income and operating cash flow.  For 2019, Addolia is betting on an acceleration of the medium stan-ding programme and projects launched in West Africa.

THE ECONOMIST