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News: Headlines from the Moroccan Press: Saturday, July 13, 2019

LE MATIN DU SAHARA
Morocco and France give a new impetus to their cooperation in the field of higher education and university research:
A framework agreement between the Conference of University Presidents of Morocco and the Conference of University Presidents of France as well as twenty agreements between several universities of the two countries were concluded yesterday in Rabat on the occasion of the bilateral academic meeting. The ceremony was presided over by the Minister of National Education, Vocational Training, Higher Education and Scientific Research, Saaïd Amzazi, and the French Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, Frédérique Vidal, in the presence of the Secretary of State for Higher Education and Scientific Research, Khalid Samadi, the French Ambassador, Jean François Girault, and the Director General of the French Institute of Morocco, Clélia Chevrier Kolacko...

Morocco announces the launch of the Network of African Ministers of Social and Solidarity Economy:
Morocco announced the organization in 2020 of the first African Forum on the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE), which will officially launch the Network of African Ministers of Social and Solidarity Economy. The announcement was made by the Secretary of State for Handicrafts and Solidarity Economy, Jamila El Moussali, at the closing ceremony, Thursday in Paris, of the first Pact for Impact Summit, marked by the launch on the same day of a new Global Alliance for the Development of the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE)...


LIBERATION
Trade with Africa is not to Morocco's advantage:
"Moroccan exports to Africa in 2018 fell by 2.4% compared to 2017 and by 4% compared to 2016. This continent now represents only 7.8% of Moroccan exports. This is what emerges from a recent report of the Office of Foreign Exchange which indicated, in addition, that Moroccan imports from Africa have increased strongly by 24.7%, or 18.9 billion dirhams, and that this continent represents 3.9% of Moroccan imports. Trade with Africa represents only 5.4% of foreign trade, adds the same source...

Study day on soulaliyate and collective lands:
Under the chairmanship of Habib El Malki, Speaker of the House of Representatives, the House of Representatives Bureau held its weekly meeting on Tuesday to discuss issues related to government control, legislation, the House's work programme and external relations...