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Marriage or Legal paedophilia : Morocco battles with under age marriages
More than 33,560 marriages of female Moroccan minors, representing 86.79% of the requests submitted in 2007, were approved by judges, a women's rights group...
Morocco to experience budget deficit this year
Morocco will experience a budget deficit this year according to a report by the Moroccan Economic Centre (CMC) Wednesday, prices will keep increasing and...
Gabon and Morocco to collaborate to develop eucalyptus plantation
Gabon has asked Morocco to develop and market its eucalyptus plantation following an agreement between the two which was signed and witnessed by Gabonese...
Scandal in Morocco : Legalising paedophilia through a fatwa
Cheikh Mohamed ben Abderrahmane Al-Maghraoui recently published a religious decree on an internet site calling for girls as young as nine years of age...
Morocco dismantles islamist network calls for more collaboration from Algeria
In their continuous efforts to curb the rise of terrorism, Moroccan security services dismantled, Friday, August 29, an Islamist network operating under Al Qaeda...
Football: Moroccan Mounir Diane transfers to RAEC Mons
Moroccan footballer Mounir Diane has moved from French second division RC Lens to Belgian first division RAEC Mons, Panapress reported. Diane signed a two-year...
2008 Beijing Paralympics : Morocco to send 18 athletes
Morocco will be represented at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics by 18 athletes, the Royal Federation of Sports for Handicapped Persons said in a statement...
Moroccan political prisoners spent a quarter century behind bars
The Moroccan government, on august 14 and 21, released the oldest Moroccan political prisoners a quarter century after they were accused and sentenced for...
Moroccan athletes promise to deliver
49 Moroccan athletes, 38 men and 11 women, selected to take part in the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games have promised to bring medals home....
The government prepares a law banning smoking in public places
The Moroccan government is preparing a law prohibiting smoking in public places and the sale of cigarettes to minors less than 18 years.
A bill...
Morocco’s good economic health welcomed
Private investors invited to participate in wealth creation.
The Moroccan economy is doing well despite the difficult international situation marked by the rise in...
Morocco-Jordan: Signing of several cooperation agreements
Morocco and Jordan signed on Monday 17 cooperation agreements and a memorandum of agreement on several aspects ranging from education to aviation.
Morocco and...
Morocco opposes European immigration initiatives
The Moroccan government recently asked from European countries to abandon their policy of return of immigrants and expressed its "total rejection" of a Dutch...
Moroccan women : A step beyond women from other Arab countries
The Moroccan government has decided to set October 10 aside as a national day for Moroccan women, an action that has been widely approved...
Tough court ruling against two Moroccan terrorists
Moroccan terrorist, Hicham Doukali, who attempted a suicide attack against tourists on August 13, 2007 in Morocco, was sentenced, Thursday, for life while his...
Anti Halal Pornography on Canal Satellite
The pornographic film shown the first Saturday of every month on Canal+ has become the target of “terrorist” threats for some weeks now. The...
Russian company, Inteco, embarks on a one billion euro project in Morocco
Inteco, the real estate subsidiary of the Russian gas company Gazprom, has announced its intention to invest nearly one billion euros in real estate...
Spanish Prime Minister expected in Morocco
The head of the Spanish government, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, is expected Friday on a visit to Morocco, at the end of which he...
Morocco : Authorities raid a major Al Qaeda base
35 members of a terrorist network specializing in recruitment of volunteers for the organization "Al Qaeda" in Iraq and Algeria were arrested this week...
Moroccans concerned as government increases fuel prices
The Moroccan government’s decision to increase fuel prices from July 1st, has aroused concern among Moroccans.
To offset rising oil prices, the Moroccan government has...
Dubai World Africa sponsors first East African Investment Conference
The inaugural East African Investment Conference being held in Kigali Rwanda, has attracted prominent industry leaders and sponsors, including massive world market investor Dubai...
Coalition against discrimination launched in Morocco
Representatives from several Arab countries met in Casablanca on Wednesday to launch an initiative against all forms of racism and xenophobia.
A ceremony of a...
Morocco records employment success but youth remain skeptic
The Moroccan government this week announced a decline in unemployment rates from 13.9% in 1999 to 9.8% in 2007 and 9.6% during the first...
Marrakech road-map adopted by African and South American states
African and Latin American trade ministers adopted the Marrakech road map which aims at the consolidation of a strategic South-South trade, during a meeting...
Casablanca court sentences culprits of mattress factory fire
judgment of the three persons accused of direct responsibility in a factory fire which caused the death of 55 workers and wounded several others...
Morocco and US free trade deal rakes in US$2.3 billion
Trade between Morocco and US hit US$2.3 billion in 2007 from US$1.4 billions in 2006, a local newspaper the Economist reported on Wednesday.
The increase...
Morocco gets a new mobile telephone operator
The third Moroccan private operator, "Wana", has announc ed the launch of its activities in mobile telephony, a market that "Maroc-Telecom " and "Meditel"...
Moroccan security forces dismantle a new terrorist network
The terrorist organization is reported to have set its central headquarters in the village of Sakhinat, located 20 kilometers from Fez.
Its main activity is...
Three terrorists sentenced in Morocco
Three teenagers charged in the Casablanca explosions which took place in the areas of Sidi Moumen and Hay El Farah on March 11th and...
Incidents in Sidi Ifni raise concern
Human rights organisations and NGOs, including"The Amazigh league of human rights”, are appealing for a serious dialogue between the Moroccan government and unemployed...