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Morocco Allots $80m

to Employment Agency

RABAT: Morocco has earmarked 80 million dollars to the National Employment and Competencies Promotion Agency, the employment minister announced on Thursday.

The budget will back training for employment programmes and self-employment projects, Khalid Alioua told the press at the end of the weekly meeting of the government council.

The House of Representatives adopted on Wednesday a law on the creation of the Agency that will devise a national employment promotion strategy.ÑAPP