Despite International Crisis, Morocco Remains a Leading International Destination
The world financial crisis has hardly hit the tourism sector in many countries and the turmoil triggered by the Arab Spring has dealt a serious blow to the sector in states that heavily depend on its returns like Egypt and Tunisia. However, in this gloomy atmosphere,...
Sustainable Agriculture And Food Sustainability: The Way Ahead
Sustainable development is one of the five priorities of UN Action Agenda for the next five years, and food, nutrition security and sustainable agriculture figure prominently in that plan. Also the UN High-level Panel on Global Sustainability has identified this as a...
Spanish Monarch’s Visit To Morocco: A Major Opportunity To Boost More Political And Economic Relations Between Two Kingdoms – OpEd
Spain’s King Juan Carlos has resumed his trip to Morocco which had to be postponed due to a discal hernia operation. He was initially invited by King Mohammed VI to visit in April, but the latest in a series of major but non-life-threatening surgical interventions...
Maghreb News : 2013-07-12
Magharebia Latest News Latest Discussion Youth | 2013-07-12 Morocco musician raps for freedom Rap artist Soultana describes how she became a voice for tolerance, justice and women's rights. Religion | 2013-07-12 Salafists attack Tunisian actors Nineteen Tunisian...
Sahara occidental: l’ouvrage qui dérange
L’ouvrage publié récemment par l’historienne russe Natalia Podgornova sur les péripéties de l’affaire du Sahara occidental, est édifiant à plus d’un titre. Avec beaucoup d’application, l’écrivaine russe tourne et retourne l’histoire du Sahara et des populations qui y...
Interview: Moroccan capital must take the initative – CEO Attijariwafa Bank
Morocco has world-class facilities but lacks local capital, says Ismail Douiri, Co-Chief Executive of Attijariwafa Bank. Although the bank is present in several French-speaking African countries, Douiri reveals that there are no immediate investment projects in...
Casablanca Finance installs Avaloq banking system
Moroccan investment bank Casablanca Finance Group has installed a new banking system from Swiss technology company Avaloq, as the Moroccan financial services industry spreads its wings across Africa. Based in Casablanca, CFG was founded in 1992 by two businessmen,...
Constitution-building The long march
ALI AHMED SAID is no stranger to controversy. The 83-year-old poet, better known by his pen name, Adunis, has lived in exile from his native Syria since 1956. Revered as a father of modernism—and sometimes hailed as an Arab T.S. Eliot—he has also been reviled as too...
Spain: human trafficking ring nabbed in Melilla Smuggled clandestine migrants into Spain at exhorbitant prices
Spanish police on Friday arrested four people and impounded three vehicles belonging to a clandestine migrant trafficking ring in Melilla, the Spanish enclave in Morocco, police sources said. Made up of both Moroccans and Spaniards, the ring made an average of 200,000...
Ramadan in Morocco Has a Different Flavor Muslims’ Traditions
Recalling Ramadan traditions in his hometown of Marrakech, Morocco, Abdessamad Ali’s memories are very specific. Ali recalls Harira, the special soup served to break the fast, his mother waking before the rest of the family to prepareSuhoor meal, the cannons which...