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".

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.

Under the effective presidency of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, The Mohammed V Foundation of Solidarity is launching the 24th Marhaba Operation for welcoming Moroccans living abroad, which is held each year from 5 June to 15 September.