By Youssef Sourgo Morocco World News Casablanca, May 16, 2013 Spanish authorities on Thursday expelled Noureddine Ziani, a Moroccan who heads the Union of Islamic Cultural Centers in Catalonia, for allegedly supporting Catalonian separatists in the country. Earlier this week, the leading Spanish newspaper, El Pais reported that, Félix Sanz-Roldán, CNI director had filled a complaint against Noureddine Ziani ...

Rabat, May 15, 2013 (MAP) The Istiqlal party’s decision to withdraw from the government coalition continues to make the headlines of Moroccan editorials this Wednesday May 15, 2013. Aujourd’hui le Maroc notes that the islamist Party for Justice and development (PJD) which heads the government coalition continues to ignore its resigning ally", living room to several interpretations: the first one is that the ...

Paris - May 15, 2013 (MAP) French foreign trade minister, Nicole Bricq, will pay on Thursday a visit to Morocco where she will participate in the 1st Panafrican meeting of French external trade advisors. Bricq’s fourth visit of the kind to Morocco “illustrates the unique relations between the two countries and France’s will to remain Morocco’s first economic partner in a context of increases competition”, a ...

Rabat, May 15, 2013 (MAP) Morocco moved up to the 70th position gaining three places compared to last year in the ranking established by the World Economic Forum (WEF) on competitiveness in Africa for 2013. Morocco, which continues its momentum in terms of competitiveness, ranks fourth on the African level outdistancing all North African countries on this indicator of competitiveness, according to a press r ...

By Youssef Sourgo Morocco World News Casablanca, May 15, 2013 According to Mr. Lahcen Daoudi, the minister of higher education, scientific research and executive training, the number of scholarships awarded to academic students currently stands at 216,000 compared with 180,000 last year. Mr. Daoudi, who spoke last Tuesday at the meeting of the House of Councillors, said that the ministry has reevaluated the ...

Montreal, May 13, 2013 (MAP) Canadian minister of citizenship, immigration and multiculturalism, Jason Kenny, hailed the leadership of King Mohammed VI and democratic reforms conducted by the Sovereign in favour of freedom, democracy and social justice values. “Thanks to his distinguished leadership, HM King Mohammed VI is part of the most eminent and most respected heads of state”, the minister told MAP as ...

Rabat - May 13, 2013 (MAP) The decision made by the Istiqlal party, major ally of the Islamist PJD in the government, to quit the government and the future of the government coalition dominate the editorials published this May 13, 2013. "Aujourd’hui le Maroc" which runs an editorial titled "two years and a half gone with the wind", draws the attention to the hard economic situation (in Morocco) and notes th ...

 RABAT, Morocco, May 12, 2013 (AFP) King Mohammed V of Morocco has urged the conservative Istiqlal party to go back on a decision to pull out from the Islamist-led government, a spokesman for the party said on Sunday. Istiqlal's national council, the main ally of the ruling Islamists, announced on Saturday it was pulling out of the government over its failure to shore up the economy and solve dire social is ...

By Larbi Arbaoui Morocco World News Taliouine, Morocco, May11, 2013 According to the news agency AP, only one overworked Moroccan doctor performs caesarean sections for women to deliver their babies in Jordan's Zaatari refugee camp. The news agency said, “The Moroccan hospital, run by the North African country's military, is the only facility in the camp that performs C-sections. It has delivered 196 babies ...

By Larbi Arbaoui Morocco World News Taroudant, Morocco, May 10, 2013 The famous South Korean singer Park Jae-Song, known as the PSY, and author of the song “Gangman style” has cancelled his particiation at the closing ceremony of the 2013 edition of Rabat’s Mawazine Festival, the Morocco Culture Association said in a press on Friday. "The Morocco Cultures Association is saddened to announce the cancellation ...

By Youssef Sourgo Morocco World News Casablanca, May 08, 2013 After recent media stories highlighted the controversial statement made by the secretary general of the Istiqlal Party, Hamid Chabat, last Sunday in which he described the bulk of government politicians as “being always drunk,” it is now Chabat’s son, Nawfal Chabat, who is stealing the spotlight from his father. Nawfal, alongside other individual ...

Rabat, May 3, 2013 (MAP) The celebrations of the World Press Freedom Day and lessons to draw from the marches that marked the celebration of Labor Day in Morocco, are the two main topics that dominated the editorials of Moroccan dailies on Friday. Under the title "Hibernation", Aujourd'hui le Maroc" argues that " Moroccan journalists celebrate the World Press Freedom Day, while there is still a need to take ...