By Youssef El Kaidi Morocco World News Fez, May 29, 2013 After the upheavals in North Africa and the Middle East and the subsequent change in Morocco by the adoption of a new constitution and the election of a new government, people began feeling hope after years of corruption, despotism and domineering that greatly damaged the social and economic policies of the country and delayed its development. The slo ...

By Mohammed Mouad Chahbane Morocco World News Marrakesh, May 23, 2013 Contacts are believed to be underway between the PJD leadership and one of the leading parties of the opposition over the possibility of forming a new coalition government. According to the Moroccan daily Al Alam, the official newspaper of the Itsiqlal Party (IP), contacts are underway between the Party of Justice and Development’s leader ...

By Youssef Sourgo Morocco World News Casablanca, May 18, 2013 The Moroccan TV channel 2M and the PJD seem to not get along well with each other lately. Tensions between both sides have continued to escalate since April 17, when 2M broadcasted an episode of the controversial Moroccan TV Show “Moubachara Maakoum,” which was devoted to debating the government’s decision to reduce the investment budget to MAD 1 ...

By Loubna Flah Morocco World News Casablanca, May 16, 2013 The IP (Istiqlal Party) decision to pull out from the coalition government cannot be totally comprehended without reference to the internal divisions within the party itself. It is not a secret that many IP members started to challenge the hegemony of the “AL Fassi” family over the party’s leadership. More demands were raised to break the glass ceil ...

By Loubna Flah Morocco World News Casablanca, April 16, 2013 The Minister of Economy and  Finance, Mr. Nizar Baraka announced  that the decision to freeze MAD 15 billion of investment assets  was a tough but an unavoidable measure in order to rescue the slumbering Moroccan  economy. He asserted that the decision to freeze investment funds was meant essentially to curb the large trade deficit which is crippl ...

By Jamal Saidi Morocco World News Meknes, February 7, 2013 Adil Douiri, former minister of tourism and a member of the Independence Political Party, implied on Tuesday that the moderate Islamic parties’ electoral victory in the region was a conspiracy. He pointed out, in an intervention during the Paris Forum, which was held in Casablanca, that some American right-wing groups considered that the revolutions ...

Rabat, February 4, 2013 Morocco World News Demand to open an investigation into the death of the student Mohammed El-Fizazy after the violent intervention of Quick Response Forces in the university campus Sais-Fez. Greetings, The Moroccan Coalition of Human Rights Boards has followed with great concern the events in the university campus Sais-Fez on January 14th, which resulted in the storming of the univer ...

Morocco World News Rabat, February 3, 2013 Moroccan economist Driss Ben Ali passed away on Sunday in Marrakesh at the age of 69. The late Ben Ali was among Morocco’s most famous intellectuals and one of the most popular among Moroccans. He was distinguished by his often accurate analyses of Morocco’s economic woes and the measures that needed to be taken in order to move the country’s economy forward. He wa ...

By Hamza El Mounhi Morocco World News Ahmedabad, India, February 1, 2013 I heard this week a vehement-as-always speech delivered by the Head of our government before members of parliament. He gave a set of measures to develop rural areas. Classic public policy schemes: the state will create a fund, an agency, set up a ministerial delegation etc. I was very happy though. It is the first time that we are thin ...

By Loubna Flah Morocco World News Casablanca, Jan 13, 2013 The minister of General Affairs and Governance, Mr. Najib Boulif asserted during a meeting with the journalists of the media group Ecomedia that the government intends to publish the list of the beneficiaries of all privileges that pertain to public governance. Sounding a confident tone, the minister pinpointed that the government will publish the l ...

Washington -Dec 21, 2012 (MAP) The World Bank executed a US$1 billion currency swap transaction for Morocco to manage its exposure to the US dollar from a recent bond issuance. The transaction supports Morocco’s currency risk management strategy by hedging against fluctuations between the US dollar, in which bond payments will be made, and the Euro, the bank said in a press release. Morocco has been working ...

By Leila Hanafi Morocco World News Washington, December 16, 2012 December commemorates Human Rights month, a high point around the world in honor of the adoption of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the first global enunciation of human rights. For Moroccan Human Rights organizations, this presented an opportunity to convene a week long caravan to assess Morocco’s human rights develo ...