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Morocco and Algeria : Impasse over Western Sahara
Morocco's invitation of Algeria for a direct dialogue over the Western Sahara conflict is faced with an impasse as the algerian government maintains...
Morocco gets 147m euros from Japan
The Japanese Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) has provided Morocco with two loans totalling 147 million euros to finance road and water supply projects....
Morocco seeks dialogue with Algeria over “Western Sahara”
Moroccan Interior Minister Chakib Benmoussa has said the settlement of the Western Sahara conflict requires "direct dialogue" between his country and Algeria.
"A settlement is...
Morocco holds talks with sports journalists
The Executive Committee of the African Sports Journalists' Union (ASJU) will meet over the weekend in Casablanca, Morocco, which is hosting the ASJU headquarters....
Morocco gets 147m euros from Japan
The Japanese International Co-operation Bank (JBIC) has approved two loans worth 147 million euros designed to finance road and water supply projects in the...
Heavy arms discovery made in Morocco
The Moroccan security service (DST) is believed to have laid their hands on arms weighing 2,270 tonnes of different varieties, including shells. According to...
Morocco beats Guinea 1-0 in Olympic qualifier
The Moroccan U-23 national football team beat visiting Guinea 1-0 Wednesday in Mohammedia, in the final round of qualifiers for the 2008 Olympics in...
North Africa investment promotion forum in Brussels
The European Commission and other countries of the Agadir agreement will on 8 April organise a forum on investments in Brussels for countries of...
Delphi recruits 3441 Moroccans
Delphi, a US company specialized in automobile electronics, is to recruit 3.441 Moroccans for their two factories in the city of Tanger, northern Morocco....
A package of deals needed to resolve border issue
Although the algerian government has not yet given an official answer in response to the Moroccan call for the reopening of land borders, several...
Construction of Naval base launched in Morocco
King Mohammed VI of Morocco on Monday presided over the ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of a naval base in Ksar Séghir, some 40...
Eleven clandestine immigrants arrested in Morocco
Eleven illegal immigrants from sub-saharan africa were arrested on Monday by Moroccan security forces in the Nador region, said a police source in Rabat....
Moroccan police arrest man with drug-stuffed stomach
The Moroccan police Monday arrested a national of Niger with 107 capsules of cocaine concealed in his stomach at the casablanca Mohamed V Airport,...
Football: Morocco beats Algeria in African Champions League
Morocco's Olympique Club of Khouribga Saturday in Khouribga, Morocco, beat ES Setif of Algeria, 2-0, in the first leg of the 16th finals of...
2008 futsal football championship opens in Libya
The 2008 futsal championship, organised by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), was billed to open in Tripoli, Libya, Friday (21 March) and run...
Morocco calls for reopening of land border with Algeria
Morocco Thursday expressed its willingness to reopen the land border with Algeria, closed since 1994, and a return to normal relations between the two...
Seychelles withdraws recognition for SADR
The Seychelles government has withdrawn its recognition of the self-declared Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), an official source here said Monday.
"Like most African countries...
RAM to launch Casablanca-Kinshasa route
Moroccan airline Royal Air Maroc (RAM) has announced plans to launch the Casablanca-Kinshasa route, the first between North Africa and the Democratic Republic of...
Morocco orders removal of painting from Paris exhibition
A painting of the Malagasy painter, Brigitte Rabarijaona, representing the 53 member countries of the African Union (AU), including the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic...
Morocco hosts Africa shooting tourney
The African clay pigeon shooting championship kicked off on Wednesday in the northern Moroccan city of Tangiers, with the participation of over 150 shooters...
British girl caught smuggling drugs in Morocco
A young English lady was arrested on Wednesday while trying to sail from the Tangiers Port (northern Morocco) for Alg'siras (southern Spain) with 10kg...
Moroccan King and Syrian VP discusse Arab summit
Syrian Vice President Farouk Al-Chareh Tuesday evening discussed the forthcoming Arab Summit with King Mohammed VI of Morocco, during a stop-over in Rabat, en...
Morocco gets a new Boeing 737-800 aircraft
Morocco's Royal Air Maroc (RAM) has taken delivery of a new generation Boeing 737-800 aircraft, the second such aircraft the state-owned airline has received...
800kg of hashish seized in Tangiers
Moroccan police at the northern port of Tangiers have seized 800kg of chira (cannabis resin) estimated at 3 million euros on board a vehicle...
28 clandestine migrants rescued
Some 28 subsaharan migrants were rescued, Wednesday, by the Royal Moroccan Marin, off the coast of Oued Eddahab, in Western Sahara.The rescue operation was...
Congolese students killed in Morocco
Two students from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were killed and three others wounded in a road accident late Monday in Marrakech, southern...
Terrorism: Belgian investigators arrive in Morocco
Investigators from the Belgian police arrived Monday in Casablanca following the recent arrest of the alleged mastermind of the terrorist network, Abdelkader Belliraj, who...
The Emir of Kuwait visits Morocco
The Emir of Kuwait, Cheikh Sabah Al Ahmed Al Jaber Al Sabah, arrived Monday for a private visit to Morocco. On hand to welcome...
Morocco urges Algiers, Polisario to be ‘positive’ on Western Sahara
Morocco has called on Algeria and the Polisario Front to be "positive" during the fourth round of talks on the Western Sahara conflict 16-18...
Moroccan King meets Mauritanian envoy
King Mohammed VI of Morocco Tuesday evening in the southern city of Marrakech met with Col. Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz, the special envoy of Mauritanian...