Morocco GDP Grows 4.4 pct In Q1, Up From 1.8 pct In Q4 2014
Reuters Morocco's economy grew 4.4 percent in the first quarter of 2015 from a year ago, after slowing to 1.8 percent growth in the final three months of 2014, amid higher agricultural output, the country's planning agency said on Wednesday. Agricultural output rose...
Traveling In Marrakech
Vanity Fair BY Tom Freston Revisiting Marrakech’s fascinating history of beheadings, prostitution, and a forgotten eccentric leader. Marrakech, like Timbuktu or Kathmandu, is a city whose name conjures the faraway and exotic. These are otherworldly places that we know...
Morocco: Civil Society Against New Draft Criminal Code Slammed As ‘Traditionalist’ By Opponents. Death Penalty Remains
ANSAmed RABAT - Moroccan authorities on April 1 posted online, on the justice ministry's website, a draft reform of criminal laws. Yet it was no April Fool's Day joke but rather a preview of a reform of the Moroccan criminal code which has since sparked a wave of...
Morocco GDP Grows 4.4 pct In Q1, Up From 1.8 pct In Q4 2014
Reuters Morocco's economy grew 4.4 pct in the first quarter of 2015 from a year ago, after growth slowed to 1.8 pct in the final three months of 2014, amid higher agricultural output, the country's planning agency said on Wednesday. Morocco is on course to harvest a...
Moroccan Cash Flows To Clinton Foundation
Politico By Kenneth P. Vogel and Josh Gerstein The Clinton Foundation is accepting a major donation from a Moroccan government-owned company to hold a high-profile conference next month in Marrakech with the king of Morocco — an event likely to reignite concerns about...
Fitch Rates OCP’s Planned Notes Issue ‘BBB-(EXP)’
Reuters (The following statement was released by the rating agency) LONDON, April 08 (Fitch) Fitch Ratings has assigned Morocco-based chemicals group OCP S.A.'s (OCP) proposed notes issue an expected senior unsecured rating of 'BBB-(EXP)'. The notes' rating is in line...
Moroccan Phosphate Company OCP To Start Roadshow For Foreign Bond Issue-sources
Reuters Moroccan state-run phosphate company OCP, one of the world's biggest exporters of phosphates and its derivatives, will start a roadshow on Thursday for a possible second foreign bond issue, a company official said on Wednesday. "The maturity and the amount...
This Refrigerator Runs On Water And Sunlight
Erie TVNews By Jillian Eugenios The assignment was to come up with a product that would improve the lives of one billion people. Quang Truong, a student at MIT, thought of spoiled produce. He'd seen a lot of it in his travels around the world. It's no surprise he did....
Encourage Private Investment In Morocco, Western Sahara
Commentary Magazine Michael Rubin On Thursday, Secretary of State John Kerry and Moroccan Foreign Minister Salaheddine Mezouar will sit down to begin the third bilateral U.S.-Morocco Strategic Dialogue. I’ve written frequently about Morocco here at COMMENTARY because...
Longing For Jewish-Muslim Co-Existence In Morocco
+972 Magazine By Haokets Kamal Hachkar’s film, ‘Echoes From the Mellah,’ looks at Morocco’s history, which not long ago included Jews and Muslims living together in peaceful co-existence, and serves as an important resource for building a vision of a shared...