Full text of King Mohammed VI’s Speech at Opening of Parliament
Rabat - King Mohammed VI delivered a speech before both houses of the parliament on Friday at the opening of the first session of the fourth legislative year of the 9th legislature. Here follows the...
View ArticlePolisario has no legitimacy to represent Sahrawis: Moroccan MP
New York (UN) - The Polisario Front has no legitimacy to represent the Sahrawis before the UN fourth Committee, said Moroccan MP Ahmed Lakhrif. "The Polisario has neither the legitimacy nor the...
View Article#FreeOuldNass: a campaign to stop the prosecution of Jamal
Rabat - A day after the release of British citizen Ray Cole, his Moroccan friend, Jamal Ould Nass has been granted provisional release, but is still likely to face prison time. After the release of the...
View ArticleMorocco Rejects Netherlands’ Decision to Call off Bilateral Social Security...
Rabat - Following Dutch media reports suggesting that the government of the Netherlands plans to call off the 1972 Moroccan-Dutch agreement on social security, Morocco’s minister of Foreign Affairs and...
View ArticleKing Mohammed VI Calls on Parliament to Draw Ethics Charter for Political Action
Rabat - King Mohammed VI called legislators of the two chambers to adopt a " broad-based ethics charter, which would not be limited to articles in the rules and regulations of the two Houses of...
View ArticleEbola: Morocco Calls for Postponing CAN 2015
Rabat - The Moroccan government calls on the African Football Federation to postpone the celebration of the 2015 African Cup of Nations, which is scheduled to be held in Morocco from January 17 to...
View ArticleTwo Moroccan Politicians Fight Inside Parliament After the King’s Speech
Marrakech - King Mohammed VI delivered a landmark speech before the two houses of parliament on Friday in Rabat. During his speech, the King criticized the lack of action and effective work of the...
View ArticleFrance: Algerian Man Gets 6 months for shouting ‘Long Live the Islamic State’
Taroudante- The Court of Strasbourg, in northeastern France, sentenced a man to six months in prison for "direct and public apology of an act of terrorism." According to Le Figaro, Abdelhafid Ayadi, a...
View ArticleMoroccan MP Expelled From His Party After Fight in the Parliament
Taroudante, Morocco - The Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) has reportedly decided to expel Aziz Lebbar, the party’s Parliamentary Advisor, because of his fight with Hamid Chabat, the Secretary...
View ArticleIMF Revises Estimates for Morocco’s Economic Growth
Rabat - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has revised its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) estimates for Morocco downwards to 3.5% for 2014, against 3.9% projected in July last year. This is still...
View ArticleShanghai WTCC: Morocco’s Mehdi Bennani Scores First Ever Win
Shanghai - Morocco’s auto racer Mehdi Bennani scored Sunday his first World Touring Car Championship victory with a flawless drive from reversed-grid pole in race two in Shanghai, China. Bennani has...
View ArticleIvorian President praises King Mohamed VI’s leadership role in Africa
Marrakesh - The President of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire Alassane Ouattara hailed Sunday in Marrakech the leadership role of King Mohammed VI in Africa. "HM King Mohammed VI has a leadership role in...
View ArticleMorocco Invited for First Time to Military Parade of Spain’s National Day
Madrid - Morocco was, for the first time, one of the guests of the military parade organized, on Sunday in Madrid, on the occasion of Spain's national day and chaired by King Felipe VI and Queen...
View ArticleOCP has several projects under way to expand output: OBG
London - The Moroccan state-owned Office Chérifien de Phosphates (OCP) has several projects under way to expand output, with most analysts predicting a recovery in the global market by 2016, said...
View Article€ 360 million to foster Morocco-Germany development cooperation
Rabat - Germany will earmark for Morocco, over the two upcoming years, an amount of 360 million euros, said the German embassy on the sidelines of inter-governmental talks on development cooperation...
View ArticleFrance Reassures Its Citizens About Their Safety in Morocco
Paris - The French foreign ministry said, on Monday, that the level of vigilance concerning French nationals living in or visiting Morocco is "normal" in almost all regions the Moroccan Kingdom....
View ArticleMorocco’s Supreme Council for Education Prepares Strategic Roadmap for Reform
Rabat - The Supreme Council for Education, Training, and Scientific Research is preparing a strategic report that will detail a roadmap for comprehensive reform of the national system of education and...
View ArticleKing Mohammed VI receives in Rabat President of Senegal
Rabat - King Mohammed VI received, on Monday in Rabat Royal Palace, President of the Republic of Senegal, Macky Sall. During this meeting, the two heads of state hailed the excellent relations between...
View ArticleOuarzazate celebrates the sun at the first Morocco Solar Festival
Marrakech - The first international Morocco Solar Festival, dedicated to the sun and the sustainable development of desert areas, will take place on October 17 in the country’s solar energy capital,...
View ArticleKing Mohammed VI Calls for Pooling Energies to Rise to Challenge of a...
Marrakech - King Mohammed VI has called for uniting and pooling energies to rise to the great challenge of the 21st century: that of a united, stable and prosperous Africa. "Our changing continent...
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