José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spain's former Prime Minister, said that the Gnaoua Festival of Essaouira, with its cultural tradition, is playing an important role as a lever for peace, in a speech at the opening of the 11th Human Rights Forum at the Gnawa and World Music Festival, organised in partnership with the Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad (CCME) on the theme "Morocco-Spain-Portugal: A history with a promising future".

In partnership with the Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad (CCME), the 11th edition of the Human Rights Forum, which is being held in parallel with the Gnawa and World Music Festival under the theme "Morocco, Spain and Portugal, a history with a promising future", opened in Essaouira on Friday 28 June 2024.

Mr. Driss El Yazami, the president of the Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad (CCME), was the guest host of the meeting "Moroccans of the world facing new challenges and changes" organized by the Accredited Journalists Club of Morocco (CJAM),Tuesday, June 25, 2024, at the Café La Seine of the Hiba Foundation in Rabat.

The North American Network of Moroccan Experts in Aeronautics (EMAN Aerospace), Ibnou Zohr University (UIZ), the Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad (CCME) and the National Scientific and Technical Research Centre (CNRST) through the program "International Forum of Moroccan Skills Abroad" (FINCOME), are holding the 6th edition of the "SKILL-UP" Summer University in Aeronautics, taking place this year in Agadir at the Souss Massa Innovation City (24-29 June) and in Laayoune at the “École Supérieure de Technologie'' (1-6 July) on the theme "Moroccan skills from here and elsewhere. Together we can help develop advanced aeronautical know-how in Morocco''.

Driss El Yazami, President of the Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad, is the special guest of the "Club of Journalists Accredited to Morocco" for a "carte blanche" discussion on the theme "Moroccans around the World Facing New Changes and Challenges", to be held in Rabat on 25 June 2004.

For its 11th edition, the Human Rights Forum organised by the Gnaoua and World Music Festival is taking place under the theme "Morocco, Spain, Portugal: A history with a future", Friday 28 and Saturday 29 June 2024 at the Hotel Atlas in Essaouira.

Moroccan author Zineb Mekouar received the prize for the best novel awarded by readers and bookstores in Paris on Tuesday 18 June 2024 from the leading French publishing house "Points" for her novel "La poule et son cumin".

With the support of the Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad (CCME), the Polo del 900 Cultural Centre will be hosting a performance of the play “Pietra Alta” in the city of Turin, on Wednesday 12 June 2024. The play is written and directed by Abdelmadjid El Fergie, a Moroccan journalist and theatre director living in Italy.

The Northern African migration was the main theme of a meeting organized Thursday 6 June by the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) of the Oxford university. The panel moderated by Moroccan-British Myriam Chetrit, included Mr Driss El Yazami, the president of the Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad (CCME), Dr Katharina Natter professor at the Dutch Universiteit van Leiden and M. Michael Collyer, professor at the university of Sussex.

Mr Driss el Yazami, president of the Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad (CCME) participates, June 6 2024, to a discussion on the theme: “Migration governance in the Mediterranean Region: Setting a new agenda”.