Unemployment Slightly Drops To 8.9% In 2011 -HCP
Rabat - Unemployment rate in Morocco dropped 0.2 points to stand at 8.9% in 2011, Morocco's statistic office, High Commissioner for Planning (HCP) said. In urban centers unemployment rate posted a small decrease from 13.7% in 2010 to 13.4% in 2012, while in rural...
EU Council To Adopt In February Negotiation Mandate For New Fisheries Accord With Morocco: Euro Source
Rabat - EU Council of Ministers should officially adopt in February the negotiation mandate for a new Morocco-European Union fisheries agreement, said on Friday the EU delegation in Rabat. In this field, the discussions over the mandate are "fruitful," said the same...
OBG: Morocco Increases Attractiveness As Industrial Base
London - Morocco is increasing its attractiveness as an industrial base, benefiting from the country’s available and skilled workforce and its proximity to Europe, said on Friday Oxford Business Group (OBG). The UK-based publishing and consulting group, which...
Morocco’s rugged oyster capital Oualidia is an overlooked
Olivia Gunning-Bennani MY KIND OF PLACE More Blue Lagoon thanCreature from the Black Lagoon, Oualidia is slung away down Morocco's southern coast. About 175km - a good two-hour drive - south of Casablanca, where I live, or about the same north from Essaouira, Oualidia...
Abu Dhabi’s Taqa to enter Morocco renewables tenders
Taqa's Saif Al Sayari Taqa, the Abu Dhabi national energy company, has set up a division to invest in renewables, and will take part in Morocco’s upcoming tenders for wind and solar. Saif Al Sayari, head of the new Energy Solutions division, tells Recharge the unit...
Moroccan FM Holds Talks In Madrid With Spain’s Congress Speaker
Madrid - Moroccan Foreign Minister Saad Dine El Otmani held, on Friday in Madrid, talks with the speaker of Spain’s congress (lower house), Jesus Posada. The meeting examined means to reinforce cooperation relations between the two countries in various areas. El...
Spain Wants Political, Just And Lasting Solution To The Sahara Issue: FM
Madrid - Spain wants a political, just and lasting solution to the Sahara issue that is accepted by the concerned parties, said on Friday in Madrid Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia Margallo. At a joint press conference with his Moroccan peer Saad Dine El...
EU-Morocco Agriculture Agreement Will Bring Significant Economic Gains For Both Parties- William Hague
London - EU-Morocco Agriculture Agreement will bring significant economic gains for both parties, British Foreign Secretary William Hague affirmed after a meeting with Moroccan Minister Delegate for Foreign Affairs Youssef Amrani in New York. "The UK is a firm...
Peru invites King of Morocco to take part in III ASPA Summit
Morocco, Feb. 02 (ANDINA). Peruvian Minister of Foreign Affairs Rafael Roncagliolo paid an official visit to Morocco and handed over the invitation letter to his counterpart Saad Dine El Otmani so that King Mohammed VI takes part in the Third Summit of South...
MU paleontologist finds distinctive head gear on extinct crocodile
BY MARÁ ROSE WILLIAMS The Kansas City Star A prehistoric crocodile with an unusual appendage on its head has been newly identified by a University of Missouri paleontologist, who nicknamed the extinct creature “Shieldcroc.” Casey Holliday, assistant professor of...