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French-Moroccan ties: 2014 got off to most auspicious start, SG of French foreign affairs ministry

Rabat - The year 2014 got off to a most auspicious start for the French-Moroccan ties, said secretary general of the French foreign affairs ministry Pierre Selall, noting that high-level bilateral...

Morocco-Spain ties are "excellent and strong", says Moroccan official

Madrid - Morocco's delegate-minister for foreign affairs and cooperation, Mbarka Bouaida, voiced satisfaction at the "excellent and strong" relations existing between Morocco and Spain....

Moroccan awarded by International Foundation for Research in Neuroscience

Rabat - The German-based International Foundation for Research in Neuroscience (International Neurobionic Foundation) awarded its 2014 prize to Professor Abdeslam El Khamlichi, director of the Rabat...

Morocco's reforms are a model to follow in the region, Speaker of Italian senate

Rabat - Thanks to its structuring reforms, Morocco has become a model to follow at the regional level, said speaker of the Italian senate Pietro Grasso who is on a working visit to the Kingdom....

Number of criminal assaults down 2% in 2013, Interior minister

Rabat - Interior minister Mohamed Hassad announced, on Tuesday in Rabat, that the number of criminal assaults decreased by 2% in 2013....

RAM, official carrier of FESPACO

Ouagadougou - Moroccan carrier Royal Air Maroc (RAM) and the organizers of the Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) signed, Tuesday in Ouagadougou, an agreement under...

FM calls for strengthening Spanish-Moroccan economic partnership to explore investment opportunities in Africa

Madrid - Foreign minister Salaheddine Mezouar has called for strengthening the economic partnership between Morocco and Spain to explore the enormous opportunities presented by the African market....

Sahara: support for autonomy plan continues to gather momentum within international community, Colombian paper

Bogota - Support for the Moroccan autonomy plan for the Sahara continues to gather momentum with the international community thanks to the withdrawal of recognition by several countries of the fake...

Akhannouch explores successful models of management of Spanish wholesale markets in Madrid

Madrid - Minister of agriculture and fisheries, Aziz Akhannouch, paid a visit on Tuesday to the wholesale market of the Madrid region, accompanied by Spanish minister of agriculture, food and the...

Elalamy showcases in Madrid Morocco's economic assets

Madrid, Feb 04, 2014 (MAP) - The assets of the Moroccan economy and investment opportunities in the Kingdom were showcased Tuesday in Madrid by the Minister of Industry, Trade, Investment and...

The top 10 books on Apple's iBooks

iBook charts for week ending Feb 2, 2014: Top Paid Books 1. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (Penguin Group US) 2. Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell & Patrick Robinson (Little,...

Top 5 items on Microsoft CEO's To-Do list

Los Angeles - As with any new CEO, Microsoft's Satya Nadella will have a packed agenda that includes filling top management roles and re-examining strategy. The tech giant on Tuesday named Nadella...

Was Microsoft smart to play it safe with CEO pick?

San Francisco - Microsoft, after compiling a list of more than 100 CEO candidates, settled on Satya Nadella, a home-grown leader who joined the software maker in the early 1990s. That's back when...

Morocco's role as stability factor in Sahel region hailed by Switzerland's special envoy for Sahel

Rabat - Switzerland Special Envoy for the Sahel Didier Berberat welcomed the prominent role played by the Kingdom of Morocco as an element of stability in the region. In a meeting on Tuesday with...

French, U.S. Navies Conclude Their Combined Exercises

Gulf of Oman — The U.S. Navy’s Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group and French Navy Task Force 473 concluded five weeks of combined carrier-strike-group exercises on February 2....

Morocco, a strategic country for Spain, Spanish employers' body

Madrid - Morocco is a strategic country for Spain, said, on Tuesday in Madrid, director of the international department of the Spanish Confederation of Entrepreneurial Organizations (CEOE,...

Sur les pas de Marrakech, Nouakchott élit une femme maire

Nouakchott : L’événement est de taille dans un pays extrêmement conservateur et où la culture bédouine est en domination, la capitale de la Mauritanie sera dirigée par une femme, élue, hier mardi 4...

Rights groups praise Tunisian Constitution

Tunis - Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and Tunisian rights group al-Bawsala welcomed the principles outlined in Tunisia's new constitution....

Tangier wants to attract Brazilian companies

Tangier – The Tangier Free Zone, Morocco’s largest free zone, wants to lure Brazilian companies so they will set up operations there. The facility is home to over 450 export-oriented companies, 80%...

Algeria: The Answer My Friend Is Blowing In The Wind

In the southern oasis town of Ghardaia violence between Arab and Berber residents over water, ethnicity and religion has gone on since late December. Nearly a hundred people have been arrested and...