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).

President Barack Obama visited,  on Wednesday 3 february 2016, the U.S mosque of Baltimore in a context of growing Islamophobia. It is the first visit to a mosque of the american president, since his endorsment 7 years ago. 

Mrs. Zoulikha Nasri, 70, native of Oujda, died on Wednesday in Rabat following a stroke. Mrs Zoulikha Nasri, became on March 29th, 2000 the first and only woman ever appointed to the post of Advisor of His Majesty  King Mohammed VI. Appointed head of the Mohammed VI Foundation in 1999, Mrs. Zoulikha Nasri's name will forever be linked to the Marhaba operation which was an unprecedented event for Moroccans living abroad who spend their holidays in their home country.
More than 2 million moroccans of the world took advantage of this unprecedented operation in the history of the Kingdom: social workers, doctors, and many volunteers were placed in resting points or at border crossings.