Moroccan jobs, education top post-election challenges
Moroccans are counting on the next government to fix the country's economic and social problems, the worst of which is unemployment. Saloua Karkri Belkeziz is uniquely positioned to discuss what voters may expect from the first election under the new constitution. As...
Morocco prepares for legislative elections
Morocco's interior ministry recently introduced two bills on political parties and election observers as part of preparations for early polls. The ministry on Wednesday (July 20th) launched a series of meetings with politicians and other members of civil society to...
Morocco: Normalization of Moroccan-Algerian Relations Likely to Help Settle Sahara Issue – FM Says
Manhasset — Foreign Minister Taib Fassi Fihri said, on Thursday night in Manhasset (New York suburbs), that the ongoing normalization process of the Moroccan-Algerian relations is likely to "contribute to the resolution" of the Sahara issue. This process which covers...
Morocco extends tech program for college students
The Moroccan government extended a program to provide technology to the country’s postgraduate students, the Dutch research firm Telecompaper reported this week. The Digital Morocco 2013 program subsidizes 85 percent of the purchase cost of a laptop computer, as well...
Morocco: Constitutional reforms and the street
A reform process is underway, but while the politicians welcome the constitution, protestors think differently Piecemeal, incomplete, hailed as revolution without the violence, the reforms underway in Morocco are under the microscope, and leave opinions divided. The...
Bus crash in south Morocco kills 14, injures 35 others
RABAT - A head-on collision between two buses killed 14 people and injured 35 in southern Morocco Thursday, an official told AFP. The accident occurred in the morning just outside Tinghir, some 420 kilometers south of the capital Rabat, a local government source said,...
Western Sahara negotiations fail in New York
UNITED NATIONS — An eighth session of UN-led informal negotiations between Morocco and the Polisario Front on the Western Sahara ended in failure in a New York City suburb. "Each party continued to reject the proposal of the other as the sole basis for future...
Morocco in the News – July 22, 2011
Major U.S. and international media outlets write about the 8th round of UN backed negotiations on Western Sahara that ended yesterday, on July 21st, in Manhasset without consensus. Politics Reuters (07/22) - Moroccan soldier dies in shooting near Algeria Google...
Morocco in the News – July 21, 2011
According to Kuna, Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) signed a $91.18 million deal with the Moroccan government by which KFAED would finance a high-speed train project linking Tangier with Casablanca. Politics Reuters (07/21) - At least 14 killed in...
Morocco succeeded in resisting global slowdown thanks to FDI, privatization receipts, OECD
Morocco succeeded in resisting the global slowdown thanks to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and privatization receipts, head of the Private Sector Development Division at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Anthony O'Sullivan said,...