Morocco hikes fuel prices in bid to fix state finances
Rabat- Moroccan petrol prices soared on Monday as the cash-strapped government began implementing a fuel price indexation system aimed at reforming oil subsidies and plugging a budget deficit,...
View ArticleSpanish Supreme Court to Consider Moroccan Memorandum about Daniel Galvan
CASABLANCA - The Spanish ministers’ council received the memorandum sent by the Moroccan ministry of justice and liberties to the Spanish judiciary against Spanish pedophile Daniel Galvan. The...
View ArticleChabat: The Moroccan Al-Sissi
Mourad Beni-ich- Washington- One can only be amazed by how the political scene in Morocco is always full of surprises--some are funny, but more are worrying. There is always someone making headlines,...
View ArticleNew Moroccan Daily gets a push from Social Networking
WASHINGTON - The daily "Annas" founded by Mustapha El Fan, former journalist for “Al Massae,” is building the starting blocks for his new venture. El Fan is now finally able to complete his project...
View ArticleDo we really need a foreign language to teach science subjects in basic...
By Adil Youssef Sayeh EL JADIDA, Morocco - Reflections on the King’s Speech to the Nation on the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of Revolution of King and People Since the independence, using Arabic...
View ArticleEgypt: the things coup supporters don’t want you to know
Agadir, Morocco- The sight of humans getting sniped and shot in the head, a man crying over his wife's corpse, tens of corpses pushed by a bulldozer with the rest of the debris is very heartbreaking...
View ArticleA Monarch Visits Mali
Rabat- A new president takes the helm in Mali today, and Moroccan king Muhammad VI is in the Malian capital Bamako as an honored guest, to congratulate him personally as well as lay out plans to build...
View ArticleMorocco-Mali: Time For A Powerful and Fruitful Partnership
Washington- In light of recent events, there is a growing hope for change in Mali. The sub-Saharan nation organized fair and transparent elections that led Boubacar Keita to be elected as the new...
View ArticleKing Mohammed VI And Malian Pres. Chair Signing Of Agreement On Malian Imams’...
BAMAKO - King Mohammed VI, Commander of the Faithful, and Malian President, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, chaired, on Friday at the royal residence in Bamako, the signing ceremony of an agreement on the...
View ArticleKing Mohammed VI Accompanied by Malian President, Visits Moroccan Field...
BAMAKO - King Mohammed VI, accompanied by Malian president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita visited on Friday the Moroccan field hospital set up n Bamako as part of Morocco's humanitarian assistance to the...
View ArticleMorocco: Why Singers Are More Honored Than Quran Recitors?
Rabat- During the last two years Moroccan audiences were more than excited when three rising Moroccan singers shone in three Arabic TV music programs derived from international formulas. Mohamed Rifi...
View ArticleYoung Moroccan maids banned from working in Saudi Arabia
Taroudant- According to the Saudi website Okaz, the Moroccan government has agreed to supply Saudi Arabia with housemaids, but maids below 45 years would not be allowed to fly to the Saudi Kingdom. In...
View ArticleTransparency ‘urgently needed’ to combat Morocco corruption
RABAT - Morocco urgently needs to pass legislation guaranteeing access to information in order to combat an entrenched culture of secrecy and corruption, Transparency International said on Saturday....
View ArticleIllegal Spain-Melilla border entry bids double: govt
MADRID - The number of people who have tried to illegally cross the border that separates the Spanish territory of Melilla from Morocco has nearly doubled this year but most fail to make it over, the...
View ArticleSecond Moroccan-Spanish Parliamentary Forum opens in Madrid
Madrid - The second Spanish-Moroccan Parliamentary Forum opened on Monday in Madrid with the participation of an important Moroccan Parliamentary delegation led by Karim Ghellab, Speaker of the House...
View ArticleCrown Prince of Abu Dhabi donates $100 mln to Morocco for renewable energy...
RABAT - Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan granted Morocco a $100 million donation for development projects related to solar and wind energy, a statement by the Royal Office...
View ArticleRabat to host the World Summit of Local and Regional Leaders
By Souad Hrirach RABAT- Under the slogan “Imagine society, build your democracy”, the city of Rabat will hosts the 2nd world Summit of local and Regional leaders and the 4th UCLG congress from 1st to...
View ArticleUNHCR: Opening of refugees and stateless persons office in Rabat “major...
RABAT - The UNHCR's representative in Morocco, Leila Jane Nassif, said the opening this Wednesday of an office for refugees and stateless persons in Rabat is "major achievement" in human rights and...
View ArticleUN: Morocco renews its Commitment to development at the “Africa beyond 2015”...
WASHINGTON – At the annual United Nations General Assembly, Morocco asserted its position as a formidable political presence by holding the “Africa beyond 2015” debate, a discussion on Morocco and...
View ArticleNezha Hayat, an example of Morocco’s new generation of women
Washington- Nezha Hayat represents an important milestone in the progress that women have made in Morocco over the past few decades. But, to many, it may be questionable whether she realistically...
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