Morocco’s Minister Receives Africa’s “Finance Minister Of The Year” Award
Moroccan economy and finance Minister Nizar Baraka received on Thursday Africa's "Finance Minister of the year" Award on the sidelines of the Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank (AfDB) held in Marrakech this May 30-31. Baraka, who participated in the...
HM The King Instructs Justice Minister To Request Release Of Minors Involved In Post Football Match Events Pending Court Verdict
HM King Mohammed VI gave His High instructions to the Minister of Justice and Liberties to filed official requests to the relevant jurisdictions to release the minors involved in the events that followed the match that had opposed on April 11 the teams of Raja and FAR...
U of M, Morocco renewing connections forged in Minnesota Project
Minnesota produced pioneering agronomist Norman Borlaug, Medtronic founder Earl Bakken, journalist David Carr, astronaut Deke Slayton – and Mohammed Sadiki, secretary general of Morocco’s Ministry of Agriculture and Maritime Fishing. Sadiki is one of hundreds of...
The age where you could WALK from New York to Morocco! How countries of today would look 300 MILLION years ago
A new map of Pangaea, the supercontinent from 300 million years ago, shows where modern day countries would have been located in the ancient land mass. The East Coast of the United States would have bordered North Africa while America's Gulf Coast was nestled against...
Jobless Local Graduates Win Court Battle
Unemployed young Moroccans challenged the Abdelilah Benkirane government. Last week, they won their case. A Rabat court on Thursday (May 23rd) ruled in favour of the nineteen plaintiffs, ordering the state to hire them directly into the civil service without requiring...
GB Student Rugby League Pioneers to head to Morocco
The Great Britain Student Pioneers, who tour emerging countries in an effort to promote and develop rugby league will venture outside Europe for the first time since their formation in 2005, when they head to Morocco in June. The Squad is assembled from players...
Morocco new observer at Council of Europe justice body Following work with joint EU-CoE programme
Morocco has been granted observer status at the Council of Europe's European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ), following close work with CEPEJ in the framework of the EU/CoE Programme on 'Strengthening democratic reform in the southern Neighbourhood'....
Morocco: Yes, We Plan
The government is squaring the circle of state planning with market dynamics. This fresh version of the developmental state tries to deliver jobs and low-cost housing without removing incentives for the private sector. A new generation of Moroccan companies will put...
UNHCHR Ponders on Cases of Sahrawi Dissidents in Tindouf
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) seems determined to look more closely at many cases of violations of human rights and freedoms in the Polisario-run Tindouf camps that have been ignored for so long. The HCHR, South African Navanethem...
INSIGHT-Libya becomes “the new Mali” as Islamists shift in Sahara
Suicide attacks on a French-run mine and a military base in northern Niger have shown how an Islamist threat is spreading across the weak nations of the Sahara, meaning France may be tied down there for years to come. Regional rivalries are aggravating the problem for...