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Mr. Abdellah Boussouf, Secretary General of the Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad (CCME), received Wednesday on March 16 th 2016, at the siege of Council in Rabat, Mr. Ally Coulibaly, Minister of African Integration of Ivory Coast. The minister was accompanied by Mr. Issiaka Konate, CEO of Ivorians living in foreign countries.

“Following the shooting incident on Sunday in the seaside resort of Grand Bassam in Cote d’Ivoire, HM King Mohammed VI held a phone conversation with Alassan Ouattara, President the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire, in which the sovereign expressed to the Ivorian President His sincere condolences and deep compassion”, HM the King’s Office said in a statement.

The Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad (CCME) received, on Thursday, 10th March 2016, at  the council  in Rabat, a delegation of 23 American students visiting Morocco, as part of a joint cultural program on immigration and identity, organized by the Centre for intercultural learning in Rabat and several American universities.

The Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad (CCME) organized on Thursday, 10th March 2016, a press conference to present three new studies: “Social protection of Moroccan immigrants – France”, “The social protection of Moroccan immigrants – case of Spain “and” the Moroccan immigration in the Balearic islands (Spain)”.

A nazi  threatening letter was sent on Thursday, February 25, 2016 to dozens of mosques in the Netherlands. The “authors” of the letter announced that they would soon make a  “visit” to mosques adding : “Islam is an evil religion.”

A report by the Belgian inter-federal Centre for Equal Opportunities (UNIA) published on 24 February 2016 says that there has been  a net increase in discrimination and hate speech in 2015:  Nearly 404 cases of ” racist incitement against 338 in 2010″, notes the report.

  The Dutch second House voted on Tuesday 16th february 2016, for the unilateral cancellation of the social security convention signed on february 1972 with Morocco confirming the vote of the Parliament.  The Dutch social affairs minister Lodewijk Asscher said after the vote, that it does not mean that all doors to new negotiations with Morocco are closed, the limit of the latter date being “fixed” by the Dutch government to July 1, 2016. The Dutch Minister of Social Affairs, (PvdA- social democrats) added that the Dutch Government  wants to pursue the negotiations with Morocco until the deadline fixed  unilaterally…

Audrey Azoulay, 43, was appointed minister of culture and communication, February 11, 2016, following the cabinet reshuffle in France. Councilor of François Hollande in charge of Culture and Communication, Audrey Azoulay is the daughter of Mr. André Azoulay, HM the King adviser.

The Kingdom of Morocco and the Republic of Chad signed on Tuesday 9th February 2016, in Rabat, an Islamic cooperation agreement and a memorandum on the training of 200 Chadian imams in Morocco.

Nearly 23,000 new companies were created in the Netherlands in 2014 by foreign entrepreneurs, mostly of dual national Moroccans and Turks, said Friday 5 february 2016, the Dutch central bureau of Statistics (CBS).