Madrid, June 18, 2013 (MAP) Morocco and Spain are sharing "joint will" to build "strategic partnership", said Spanish minister of foreign affairs and cooperation, Jose Manuel Garcia Margallo. "Morocco is a neighbour country with which we have excellent ties and with which we share joint will to build strategic partnership", Margallo told Spanish monthly "Atalayar entre dos orillas". He also stated that comm ...

By Karima Rhanem Morocco World News Rabat, June 16, 2013 The Moroccan commission on Dialogue on Civil Society and New Constitutional Roles organized on June 15 at Mohammed V university in Rabat the first series of scientific conferences on CSO’s legal enabling environment. Speaking at the opening of the conference, the head of the commission Moulay Ismail Alaoui, former Minister of Education and agriculture ...

By Loubna Flah Morocco World News Casablanca, June 16, 2013 The World Bank urged the Moroccan government to implement urgently the reforms promised in order to contain the economic downturn and to boost growth and job creation. The World Bank warned in its report issued last week that the economic prospects of the world economy are rather dim, hence the need for a comprehensive reform policy as reported by ...

By Youssef Sourgo Morocco World News Casablanca, June 14, 2013 Princess Lalla Salma, chairperson of the Lalla Salma Foundation for the Prevention and Treatment of Cancer, accompanied by Sheikha Fatima Bint Mubarak, president of the Foundation for Family Development and the United Arab Emirates’ General Union of Women, inaugurated last Wednesday the "Sheikha Fatima" Center for Genealogic Cancer Treatment at ...

Fez, June 13, 2013 Damascus-born Assala Nasri’s first success, Ouala Tssadak, soon made her a major singer in the Arab world. Then her song Ighdab, which she sang for the great Syrian poet, Nizar Kabani, led to her being regarded as one of the great artists to sing for this poet along with such luminaries as Abdelhalim Hafez, Nadjet Saghira, Fayza Ahmed, Majida Erroumi and Kazem Essahir. For Oum Keltoum, sh ...

By Youssef Sourgo Morocco World News CASABLANCA, June 11, 2013 The Moroccan lawn bowls (pétanque in French) team, made of Ajwad Mohamed, Abdessamad Menkari and Rachid Habchi, beat the Tunisian team last Sunday, June 9, during the finals of the African Nations Championship of lawn bowls . The three Moroccan bowlers left no glimpse of hope for the Carthaginians after scoring 13 points to 6, thus winning the A ...

By Jamal Boubakri Morocco World News Washington, June 11, 2013 In 2009, Morocco launched a huge program that will make the kingdom a leader in solar power production by the end of the decade. Morocco plans to build five new solar plants by 2020 with a combined production capacity of 2,000 megawatts and at an estimated cost of nine billion dollars or 6.9 billion Euros. Since Morocco has no oil and gas reserv ...

By Jawad Maniani Morocco World News Casablanca, June 8, 2013 Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an's last official visit to Morocco raises a great deal of questions as to whether Moroccan Justice and development party would copy Erdo?an's experience. Since it came to power in 2002, the latter has transformed Turkey from a poor country, fighting poverty and illiteracy with limited means to a powerful a ...

By Larbi Arbaoui Morocco World News Taroudant, Morocco, June 8, 2013 The British Embassy in Rabat celebrates 800 years of diplomatic relations between the UK and Morocco. According to some historic sources, the UK and Morocco diplomatic relations go back to 1213 when King John of England (1167–1216) sent an emissary to petition support from the Moroccan Sultan Mohammed Ennassir, the fourth Sultan in the Alm ...

Rabat - June 7, 2013 (MAP) The new prerogatives of the National Foreign Trade Council (NCCC), the situation of Moroccan workers in Ceuta and Melilla, the right to protest, and the adoption of Moroccan children by foreign nationals are the main topics that dominated the editorials of Moroccan dailies on Friday. Entitled "before""L’Economiste" writes that after 17 years of service "the National Foreign Trade ...

By Mohamed Saadouni Casablanca, June 6, 2013 Moroccan lawyers are defying a justice ministry move to determine how much they should be paid for providing legal aid services. The Moroccan Bar Association on May 30th staged sit-ins at courthouses across the kingdom. The largest of these protests was a vigil by lawyers at the Court of Appeals in Casablanca. The association has since increased the pressure by s ...

By Youssef El Kaidi Morocco World News Fez, June 5, 2013 At a time when Morocco is in dire need of benefiting from successful economic experiences such as the Turkish experience which many commentators describe as a “miracle”, the Moroccan Employers’ Federation known as Patronat or CGEM decided to boycott the meeting which took place Monday, June 3rd in Rabat between Moroccan officials and businessmen and t ...