MarocAfrik

Morocco: 2013 bad start for the telecoms sector

Casablanca: A sharp drop is recorded in the telecoms market in Morocco, for the first quarter of 2013. There was a decrease of over 10%...

Study: Low representation of women in senior positions of responsibility in Morocco

Rabat: The first conference on "Women in Governance " was held in Rabat. The representation of women in governance bodies of large public and...

Mali: Bamako and MNLA prepare to negotiate.

One of the major sticking points in preparing for elections and achieving reconciliation in war torn Mali is the animosity and hatred between the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA)...

Mideast feminists reject Europe topless protests

Bewilderment, scorn, resentment. Women's rights activists across the Middle East are reacting with everything but joy to topless demonstrations in Europe by a Ukrainian feminist group held in...

Algeria non-hydrocarbon exports soar in February 2013

Algeria’s non-hydrocarbon exports, mainly constituted of oil products, soared by 107% last February totaling $197 million, Algerian customs said on Wednesday....

Royal cabinet questions Mustapha Ramid on adoptions of Moroccanchildren by foreigners

Rabat: The Minister of Islamic justice and freedom has received a letter in this regard from the office of King Mohammed VI. The royal cabinet has questioned the PJD Minister of Justice and...

Avian influenza ninth death in China

Shanghai: One person died in Anhui province, bringing to nine the number of people killed by the new strain of bird flu in China, reports the New China news agency. H7N9 strain, against which the...

La coopération franco-marocaine en matière de finances publiques

Depuis quelques années, le ministère marocain de l’économie et des finances organise, en partenariat avec l’Association pour la fondation internationale de finances publiques, un rendez-vous annuel...

One of the Sahrawi sheikhs proclaims his support for integration with the Motherland

Laayoune - Abdallah Salhi, one of the sheikhs of the identification process in Laayoune, said in a letter on Tuesday to the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon that he supported the "integration of...

La France, partenaire de développement

L’aide au développement constitue l’un des axes de la politique étrangère de la France. Plus de 7 milliards d’euros sont consacrés chaque année pour contribuer au développement de ses partenaires....

South Korea increases surveillance as North moves missiles

South Korea said on Wednesday there was "very high" probability that North Korea, engaged in weeks of threats of war, would launch a medium-range missile at any time as a show of strength despite...

700,000 Algerian tourists in Morocco in 2012, despite the closed borders

Oran: Morocco is a popular destination for tourists were 700,000 Algerians to fly to Morocco in 2012, Abdelilah Oudadas, Consul of Morocco Oran....

Families of the martyrs of Tunisian revolution: "We have no more confidence in military justice"

Tunis - "We have no more confidence in the military justice system," stated the families of martyrs and wounded of the revolution of 14 January 2011 who gathered on Tuesday morning outside the...

Libya arms fueling conflicts in Syria, Mali and beyond: U.N. experts

Weapons are spreading from Libya at an "alarming rate," fueling conflicts in Mali, Syria and elsewhere and boosting the arsenals of extremists and criminals in the region, according to a U.N....

Libyan prime minister's abducted aide is freed

A senior Libyan official says that the prime minister's chief of staff has been freed after eight days in captivity by a militia. Deputy...

Marrakech : Au quartier Daoudiate, une jeune mère commet un infanticide crapuleux

Marrakech : Le crime se révéla, lorsque les habitants d’une des unités du quartier, portent plaintes aux autorités locales, à cause d’une obstruassions de leurs réseaux d’assainissement. A l’unité 3,...

Egypt's Christian pope blasts Islamist president

The leader of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church on Tuesday blasted the country's Islamist president over his handling of recent deadly sectarian violence, including an attack on the main cathedral in...

Sarkozy is the ultra-UMP favourite for 2017

Paris: Nicolas Sarkozy remains the undisputed favorite for the UMP presidential election of 2017 (63%), far ahead of François Fillon whose star continues to fade (11%), according to an Ifop poll of...

Margaret Thatcher: Hassan II was highly educated and spoke six languages'

London:remembered in her book 'The Downing Street Years', the former British Prime Minister who died yesterday, on Monday, 8 April recalled her striking encounters with King Hassan II....

Algeria, guest of honour at the 28th Literary Comedy Book Festival of Montpellier

Algiers: Algeria will be the guest of honor at the 28th Literary Comedy Book Festival of Montpellier (southern France) from 7 to 9 June, where it will be represented by many artists and writers,...