Morocco Inflation Rises To 1.7 pct In April
Reuters Morocco's consumer price inflation rose to an annual 1.7 percent in April from 1.6 percent in March, the High Planning Authority said on Wednesday. Food inflation was 2.5 percent from 2.1 percent the previous month. The non-food price index eased to 1 percent...
Polisario: Abdelaziz At The Center Of An Array Of Criticism
Polisario Confidential by Khalid Ibrahim Khaled Since the debacle suffered by the Polisario Front and its mentor, Algeria, at the UN Security Council end of April, the separatist front leader Mohamed Abdelaziz has been at the center of an array of criticism from his...
Morocco: Group Of Artists To Help Sub-Saharan Migrants
ANSAmed International Mix City project co-funded by EU Migrants are not only the thousands who take off from Libya's coasts in an attempt to reach Italy. There are many who, after a trip made of real or alleged threats, but a lot of tangible violence, reach Morocco to...
Morocco’s Anti-Poverty Project Has Benefited 10 mn People
Business standard IANS | Rabat Morocco's large-scale anti-poverty National Initiative for Human Development (INDH), a signature project launched by King Mohammed VI in May 2005, has benefited 10 million people, about a third of the nation's population, a senior...
Morocco’s Islamic Women Preachers Lead Social Revolution
Reuters By Emma Batha Girls are "like a timebomb ready to explode and ruin the family's reputation", the Moroccan jewelry trader tells his customer as she admires a display of necklaces. The solution is to "get rid of this bomb" by marrying your daughters off as soon...
Amnesty International Warns Over Torture Practice In Morocco
Associated Press By Paul Schemm Moroccan authorities still use torture widely despite a ban on the practice, the Amnesty International rights group said in a report Tuesday documenting the abuse. Despite the ban and statements against torture by King Mohammed VI, law...
Has Morocco’s ‘Family Code’ Shown How Gender Equality Can Coexist With Islam In The Courts?
PRI.Org By Jake Warga Major amendments were made to Morocco’s Family Code (the Moudawana) in 2004, giving husbands and wives joint responsibility in household matters and introducing more flexibility in applying traditional rights and responsibilities associated with...
Ingram Micro Launches Morocco Hub
IT News Africa In an effort to continue to expand, Ingram Micro announced that it has opened its subsidiary office in Casablanca. The new office should assist the company in continuing to create a larger presence in Africa with Morocco as its North African base. The...
Delta International Property Holdings Restructures Company In Bid To Acquire Strategic Assets
Published by eProp Commercial Property News Delta International Property Holdings publishes consolidated interim financial statements for the three months and the nine months ended 31 March 2015. Delta International Property Holdings Limited (“Delta International”) is...
Houthis Are The Antithesis Of The Arab Spring
Middle East Monitor Maisaa' Shu'aa Al-Din Abdul Malek Al Houthi shows up from time to time on Yemeni television. These days there is not a single day that passes by without his face on appearing during the news broadcasts on Yemen. He can be seen waving his finger and...