Brussels – Council of Moroccan Community Living Abroad (CCME) takes part, on February 8-9 in Brussels, in the Belgian-Moroccan Academic Forum, held on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the bilateral agreement of February 17, 1964 relating to the recruitment of Moroccan workforce in Belgium.

Coloniality, identities and cross-representations, the movement of elites and migrations, scientific cooperation, technological transfers and development are among the themes addressed during this meeting, organized by DIMOBEL consortium, which brings together the University of Liège, the Graduates Circle of Belgium (CLB), the Mohammed Premier University of Oujda and the ESCA Management School of Casablanca, CCME said in a press release.

CCME President, Driss El Yazami, hailed this initiative, marked by ‘the broad themes covered and the participation of young generations of Belgian-Moroccan researchers alongside pioneering researchers who have been working for decades on migration issues in Belgium’.

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the organizers, the Forum, held at the Royal Museum of Art and History in Brussels, is an opportunity to highlight the situation 60 years after the signing of the bilateral labor agreement between Morocco and Belgium and to emphasize future challenges and, more particularly, the needs to strengthen cooperation between Belgium and Morocco.

Source: Agency Morocaine De Presse

KHAN YUNIS: A Palestinian civilian was killed and several others sustained injuries this evening in a targeted strike by an Israeli drone on the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

Local sources at the hospital said an Israeli drone opened fire on a group of civilians who had ascended to the upper floor of the Nasser Medical Complex in an attempt to access the internet. The attack resulted in the tragic murder of one individual and injuries to others.

The hospital, the second largest medical facility in the Gaza Strip, has been subjected to an Israeli military siege for several weeks, with Israeli tanks and armored personnel carriers encircling the area from all directions.

The bulk of the civilian population in Khan Yunis, particularly in the areas surrounding the hospital, have also been forcibly evacuated out of the area by the occupying Israeli army.

Source: Palestine news and Information Agency – WAFA