Moroccan Police to Change Its Look
Rabat - Morocco’s Directorate of National Security (DGSN) announced on Monday that Moroccan police officers are being issued updated uniforms which will be worn by the end of this year. During the...
View ArticlePAM to Release Booklet on Moroccan Government ‘Failures’
Taroudante - The Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM), one of Morocco’s opposition parties, announced that would publish a booklet that will detail what it describes as the current government's...
View ArticleJews From New York Sport Djellabas to Visit a Jewish Shrine in Morocco
Taroudante - A group of around 70 people led by Louie Scheiner of New York who travelled to Morocco over the past week, according to Yeshiva World News, an Orthodox Jewish online news publication. The...
View ArticleMoroccan Man Killed in Chicago in ‘Drug-Related’ Incident
Rabat - A 28-year-old man of Moroccan origin died on a sidewalk in Chicago Monday night due to what police officers claim could have been a drug-related dispute, a report by the local source WGN TV...
View ArticleMorocco Says US State Department Report on Human Rights is ‘Truly Outrageous’
Rabat - The latest report of the US State Department on human rights in Morocco is ''truly outrageous',' and Morocco is forced to explore all possible ways to uncover the report's excesses, the...
View ArticleMoroccan Journalist Secures Booth to Cover Democratic, Republican Conventions
Rabat - Journalist Mohammed Dou Rachad has become the first Moroccan to secure space on his own to provide coverage of both the Democratic and Republican conventions in July. A source close to the...
View ArticleMoroccan-French Exceptional Relations to Facilitate COP22 Success: FM
Paris - Moroccan-French exceptional relations constitute an important aspect for the success of the UN Conference on Climate Change (COP 22), scheduled next November in Marrakech, said here Wednesday,...
View ArticleFour People Killed, 34 Injured in Road Accident North of Casablanca
Mohammedia - Four people died and 34 others injured on Wednesday in a road accident North of Casablanca, according to local authorities. The accident took place when a bus carrying the victims...
View ArticleISIS Member Arrested in Morocco Sought to ‘Make Powerful’ Explosives: Ministry
Rabat - Scientific expertise carried out by the specialized services on suspicious materials seized in Tangier, following the arrest last Friday of an ISIS-affiliated Chadian national, confirmed that...
View ArticleMoroccan Foreign Minister Meets in Paris with French Foreign Minister
Paris - Foreign minister Salaheddine Mezouar met, on Wednesday in Paris, with French peer Jean-Marc Ayrault on bilateral relations and regional and international issues of shared interest. In a...
View ArticleFive Moroccan Athletes Arrested for Links to Steroid Use
Rabat - Authorities suspect sixty Moroccan athletes of using performance enhancing steroids, based on cell phone numbers gathered from the devices of known vendors of the substances considered illicit...
View ArticleMorocco Takes Part in Rome in First Italy-Africa Conference
Rome - A Moroccan delegation led by Morocco's permanent representative to the UN in New York, Ambassador Omar Hilale, is representing Morocco in the first Italy-Africa conference, which opened on...
View ArticleMorocco Stresses Determination to Broaden Cooperation With Africa in Water...
Johannesburg - Morocco stressed, on Wednesday in Johannesburg, its determination to broaden cooperation with African countries in the water sector by offering its know-how in the management and...
View ArticleNomadic Filmland Academy Hosts Filmmaking Program in Marrakech on May 21-25
Rabat - The Nomadic Filmland Academy, an international platform for nomads around the world, recently announced its filmmaking program, which will be directed by international experts who will join...
View ArticleMorocco Goes Back to GMT Time on June 5
Rabat - Morocco will suspend the daylight saving time (GMT+1) as of June 5 until July 10, 2016, the ministry of public service and administration modernization announced on Monday in a statement....
View ArticlePresidential Candidates Seeking out ways to Weaken Competition
By Kainoelani Lee Rabat – With the United States Presidential election of 2016 nearing, candidates are doing anything in their power to undermine one another. Currently, the remaining candidates...
View ArticleMorocco Summons US Ambassador over State Department Report on Human Rights
Rabat – Morocco summoned the US Ambassador to Rabat on Wednesday after Washington rejected the statements of the Moroccan government criticizing and refuting the US State Department’s report on human...
View ArticleMoroccan Student Has Eyebrows Shaved, Hair Cut in Public for ‘Spying For Police’
Rabat - A Moroccan student accused of spying for the Moroccan police had her eyebrows forcibly and humiliatingly shaved and her hair cut in front of hundreds of other students in her Moulay Ismail...
View ArticleLife Expectancy Increased by Five Years Since 2000: WHO
Geneva - Life expectancy increased by 5 years between 2000 and 2015, the fastest increase since the 1960s, according to this year's "World Health Statistics: Monitoring Health for the SDGs". Those...
View ArticleSaad Lamjarrad Sued in the US for Alleged ‘Sexual Assault’
By Kainoelani Lee Rabat - Saad Lamjarred, sensational Moroccan singer and actor, is now being sought after for accusations of "sexual assault and violence" towards a Brooklyn woman, according to New...
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