Airplane Captain Flying from Morocco Suffers Fatal Heart Attack, Co-Pilot...
Rabat – A flight from Casablanca to Brussels almost came to a tragic end when the captain suffered a massive heart attack, forcing the co-pilot to take over, reported the daily Assabah on Saturday....
View ArticleRamid Under Fire by NGOs over Human Rights Report to UNHRC
Rabat- Mustapha Ramid, Moroccan State Minister for Human Rights, has come under fire by a coalition of local NGOs over his presentation of Morocco’s human rights report to the United Nation Human...
View ArticleKing Mohammed VI and Francois Hollande Hold Impromptu Meeting at French...
Rabat – After their official meeting at the Elyséé, King Mohammed VI and French President, Francois Hollande bumped into one other in a Paris restaurant. The French daily Le Parisien reported that the...
View ArticleThe Higher Council for Education: “Private Schools Drifting from National and...
Rabat – The Higher Council for Education has criticized private schools in Morocco for drifting away from national and religious precepts. According to Al Yaoum24, Abdellatif El Moudni, the council’s...
View ArticleMorocco and Spain Dismantle ISIS Terrorist Cell
Rabat – Morocco and Spain dismantled on Monday a terrorist cell linked to the so-called Islamic State, better known as ISIS, in both Tangier and Catalonia. Morocco’s Ministry of Interior said in a...
View ArticleTwo Moroccan Students Win International Social Entrepreneurship Prize
Rabat – Two students at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane have won the gender equality prize at AIM2Flourish, a higher-ed curriculum and online platform highlighting social entrepreneurship that aligns...
View ArticleGermany to Deport Unaccompanied Underaged Immigrants Back to Morocco
Rabat – Germany’s Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) has laid out plans to build facilities in Morocco for underage, undocumented immigrants who have either broken the law or who wish to...
View ArticleCasablanca Hosts 17th Annual Freight Forwarders Conference
Rabat – Five-hundred experts and business leaders from 20 countries gathered May 4 to 6 at Hayat Regency in Casablanca for the 17th Annual Conference of Freight Forwarders of Africa and the Middle East...
View ArticleUniversal Periodic Review Calls on Morocco To Review Its Violence Against...
Rabat – The Human Rights Council is no longer tolerating Morocco’s idling when its comes to violence against women. During the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Morocco at its 27th session in Geneva...
View ArticleTan-Tan Hosts 13th Annual Tan-Tan Moussem Festival
Rabat – Thousand of people are gathering in the southern Moroccan city of Tan-Tan to celebrate the 13th annual Tan-Tan Moussem Festival, running May 5 to 10. Senegal will be the country of honor at...
View ArticleLamjarred Lawyer: ‘She Grabbed His Face and He reacted’
Rabat – Just as stories of Saad Lamjarred’s sexual assault trial started to fade from headlines, his lawyer, Eric Dupound-Moretti, has come out with new information. In an exclusive interview with...
View ArticleHCP: Increase of Unemployment Rate Despite an Invigorated Work Market
Rabat – Unemployment has risen again in the first three months of the current year, according to the High Commission for Planning’s (HCP) labor market figures for the first quarter of 2017. The HCP...
View ArticleMorocco and Portugal Strengthen National Defense Ties
Rabat – Morocco and Portugal are looking to consolidate their bilateral cooperation in the field of national defense, according to a communiqué issued by Morocco’s Department of National Defense on...
View ArticleMinister of Industry: ‘Before, We Sold Morocco. Now, Morocco Is Buying’
Rabat – Morocco is set on moving up the automotive industry ladder. The government aspires to blast off the Kingdom’s automobile sector to the fifth place in the global automotive industry. The...
View ArticleDrunken ‘Ferrari Kid’ Gets 2 Years in Prison, MAD 20,000 Fine
Rabat- Hamza Derham, the infamous “Ferrari kid”, has been sentenced to two years in prison. Derham was arrested in April after uploading a video of himself driving drunk and mocking police officers...
View ArticleRabat to Host 2nd Sustainable Engineering Forum in May
By Safaa Kasraoui Rabat – Morocco’s National Library will host the second edition of Sustainable Engineering Forum (SID) on May 17 and 18 in Rabat. Organized, by the NGO Mouvement Des Ingenieurs, the...
View ArticleUS Army Seeks to Teach Soldiers Darija
Rabat- The US Army is keen on having its soldiers study Moroccan culture and the Arabic dialect Darija, reports the daily newspaper Al Akhbar. The army made a request to Moroccan authorities to help...
View ArticleSecurity in Morocco Guarantees Security in Spain: Spanish Interior Minister
Rabat – Security in Morocco guarantees security in Spain, said Spanish Interior Minister Juan Ignacio Zoido on Monday, highlighting Morocco’s “invaluable collaboration” with Spain in the fight against...
View ArticleSaudi King Invites Mohammed VI, Donald Trump to Arab Islamic-American Summit
Rabat – King Mohammed VI has received an invitation from Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud to attend 2017’s Arab Islamic-American Summit, which is scheduled to take place on May 21 in Riyadh....
View ArticleCigarettes Prices to Rise in Next Six Months
Rabat – The parliament has approved a bill presented by the Finance Committee of the House of Representatives to raise taxes on the importation of certain cigarette brands. The new law is set to be...
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