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Africa Judo Championship to be hosted by Morocco
The 29th African Judo Championship, which would serve as qualifiers for the Beijing Olympics, will take place from 15-18 May in Agadir, southern Morocco....
Algeria says Morocco must stop plundering Western sahara
The president of the Algerian national people’s congress indicated during the international colloquium on self-determination held in Algiers on Sunday, that the Western Sahara...
Morocco Khourigba club and Ivorian Asec Abidjan in a goaless draw
Ivorian club, Asec Abidjan, and their Moroccan counterparts, Olympic club of Khourigba, draw 0-0 Sunday at the Felix Houphouët Boigny Stadium in a first-leg,...
Morocco: 55 killed in Casablanca mattress factory fire
A fire in a mattress factory killed about Fifty five people and seriously injured twelve others including a policeman in the city of Casablanca,...
North and Sub-Saharan African pharmacists cooperate against illegal drugs
Pharmacists unions from the Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa Friday called on governments to be extremely vigilant and cooperate in efforts to stamp out illicit...
North and Sub-Saharan African pharmacists cooperate against illegal drugs
Pharmacists unions from the Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa Friday called on governments to be extremely vigilant and cooperate in efforts to stamp out illicit...
Morocco – UN : Western Sahara independence is unattainable
The personal envoy of the UN Secretary General for Western Sahara, Peter van Walsum, is of the view that the idea of the Wester...
Morocco : A plan to boost agriculture unveiled
Seeking to revive the agricultural sector in the face of an increasing global food crisis, the Moroccan government has decided to opt for a...
UK gives $910m to solve food crisis
The United Kingdom has given 910 million dollars following appeals made by the United Nations to overcome spiraling global food prices in the world.
A...
Morocco gets €19m from OPEC
The OPEC Fund for International Development has granted to Morocco a loan of 19 million euros earmarked for the financing of part of the...
Morocco buys a french navy ship
French Prime Minister, François Fillon, announced on Friday in Rabat that his country would sell to Morocco one multi-mission frigate estimated at 500 million...
Morocco and France sign several agreements
Rabat and Paris have signed 16 trade agreements during the Ninth meeting of their joint commission in Rabat under the chairmanship of Prime Minister...
Liberian arrested in Morocco with 1.5 kg of cocaine
A Liberian national has been arrested in the Moroccan city of Casablanca with 1.5 kg of cocaine, police sources said in Rabat on Friday....
French Premier visits Morocco
French Prime Minister, François Fillon, was received in Ifrane (Middle-Atlas) Friday by Moroccan King Mohammed VI with whom he held disc u ssions on...
Metro, first sexually explicit Arabic novel seized in Egypt
The Arabic language's first graphic novel appears it will need more time before it will be published as Egyptian police confiscated the book in...
Morocco signs deals on education and sports with Real Madrid
TSR announces that the Spanish football club Real Madrid invests in aid to poor children in Rabat. This Tuesday the football club signed a...
BADEA assesses $43 m projects in Sierra Leone
Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa’s (BADEA) Director General Abdell Aziz Khelef is on a three-day visit to Sierra Leone primarily to assess...
Morocco : Gov’t and Labor unions negotiate
This week the Moroccan government and labor unions began a second round of negotiations. The main subjects of concern included the decrease of income...
Morocco and Czech group MND sign oil deal
The Moroccan National Office of Hydrocarbons and Mining (ONHYM) and "Exploration and Production Ltd.", a British subsidiary of the Czech group "MND", Wednesday signed...
Libya and Sudan sign contract with Arabsat in Morocco
The Arab Satellite Communication, Arabsat, on Wednesday signed two contracts with Libya and Sudan at a ceremony in Marrakech, southern Morocco.
The first contract between...
Africa now an international business hub
Africa has become the hub of foreign investments because it has opened up its borders, improved its governance and set up a more conducive...
Moroccan footballer Erbati to be transfered to Olympique Marseille
The French side of Olympique Marseille is engaged in talks with Moroccan El-Amine Erbati for a possible transfer of the player to the premier...
Nine terrorists escape from Moroccan prison
Nine terrorists involved in the murderous May 16th 2003 attacks in Casablanca managed on Monday, April 7th to escape from the Kenitra prison located...
Several islamists escape from Moroccan prison
Nine Moroccan Islamists escaped from the Kenitra penitentiary in the north of the Moroccan capital, Rabat, on Monday, the Justice Ministry said. "The escape...
Morocco gets €151 million from African Development Bank
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has lent Morocco 151.4 million euros to finance a thermo-solar power station project in Aïn Beni Mathar in eastern...
Arab bank for economic development in Africa to support Palestinians
The Board of Governors of the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) says 10 per cent of its net income of US$...
Morocco : Mohamed Serraj attacked
The general secretary of the moroccan press national syndicate Mohamed Daw Serraj, (SNPM from its french acronym, Syndicat National de la Presse Maroccaine), is...
The historical city of Fes celebrates its 1200 years
Founded in the year 808 by Idriss II, Fes, which has stood the test of centuries, battling with the continuous torrential stream of events...
Moroccan journalists compared to “prisoners on parole”
A press conference organised by Rachid Nini, editorial director of the moroccan daily, Al Massae, on Monday, March 31 in Casablanca, was marked by...
‘Fitna’ faces international criticism
The World Islamic Call Society (WICA) and the Libyan Islamic People's Command Monday condemned the attack against Islam by a Right Dutch MP through...