Can Morocco kick start its economy?
BBC News Morocco avoided its own uprising last year partly by trebling food and fuel subsidies to try and placate its people. However, that came at an economic cost and the country has a rising budget deficit. Unemployment is high and trade is heavily dependent on...
Achieving Maghreb Union, A Vital Necessity – Algeria’s President
Tunisia’s President Hopes Combined Efforts Will Lead To Holding 7th Maghreban Summit Rabat - Achieving the Maghreb union at a time of regional and international grouping has become a vital necessity that will enable our brotherly peoples to address the numerous...
HM The King Highlights Steadfast Commitment To Forge Ahead With New Maghreban Orde
Rabat - HM King Mohammed VI highlighted His steadfast commitment and sincere willingness to forge ahead with establishing a new Maghreban order through constructive dialogue and fruitful consultation. In a message to the heads of states of Maghreban countries on the...
Maghreban Foreign Ministers Meeting Opens In Rabat
Rabat - The 30th meeting of Foreign Ministers of the five Maghreban countries opened on Saturday in Rabat. The meeting was attended by Secreatry General of the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) Habib Ben Yahya, and Foreign Ministers of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya, Saad...
Crown Prince Of Bahrain Lauds Morocco¹s Steadfast Support
Manama -HRH Prince Prince Salman Bin Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa, Crown Prince of Bahrain and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Bahrain Defence Force commended Morocco for its steadfast support for his country. Speaking during an audience granted to Morocco’s new...
Morocco, Algeria Agree To Set Up Political Consultation Mechanism
Rabat - Morocco and Algeria signed on Friday in Rabat a memorandum of understanding for the setting up of a political consultation mechanism. It was signed by Moroccan Foreign Minister Saad Dine El Otmani and his Algerian counterpart Mourad Medelci. At a joint press...
A year after it changed Moroccan politics, the Feb. 20 democracy movement struggles for a role
By Associated Press RABAT, Morocco — Morocco’s pro-democracy February 20 movement spearheaded the country’s version of the Arab Spring and sent the centuries-old monarchy scrambling to reform. Now, a year after its birth, the youth-led group appears to have lost its...
Robert Pattinson: I loved playing a player in ‘Bel Ami’
L.A. Times February 17, 2012 | 11:31 am A corrupt government –- supported by a corrupt media –- that seeks to invade an Arab country for its resources is how Declan Donnellan described his film adaptation of the 1885 Guy de Maupassant novel “Bel Ami,” which focuses on...
Morocco’s phosphate sales reach $6bn in 2011
by Abdelghani Henni Morocco is the world's largest exporter of phosphate products. Moroccan sales of phosphate increased to US$6 billion in 2011, compared to $4.39 billion in 2010, largely thanks to the increase of prices of raw materials in the international market,...
Morocco boosts Mauritania ties
In the latest push to strengthen inter-Maghreb relations, the Moroccan foreign minister paid a visit to Mauritania.By Raby Ould Idoumou for Magharebia in Nouakchott [Raby Ould Idoumou] Moroccan Foreign Minister Saadeddine El Othmani (left) meets with Mauritanian...