Morocco World News with Maghreb Intelligence Rabat, November 30, 2012 Current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, considered to be very close to the Kingdom of Morocco, is preparing to pass the baton to another lady who should take charge of the American diplomacy. According to informed sources in Washington, U.S. ambassador to the UN Susan Rice is to lead the State Department. For the first time in the his ...

Morocco World News New York, Oct 29, 2012 Moroccans have been taken  aback on Monday after Morocco World News published a news story in which it reports that Moroccans are exempted from visa to enter Spain. While many Moroccans contacted by Morocco World News welcomed the idea of exempting Moroccans from applying for a visa to enter Spain, a number of them expressed their disbelief and dismissed the idea th ...

By Siham Ali Rabat, May 20, 2012 Morocco this month began its long-promised judicial reform process. A new panel will work to accelerate changes demanded by citizens and judges alike. The high commission for "comprehensive and profound" judicial reform includes representatives of the judicial, legislative and academic communities, Morocco's King Mohammed VI announced May 8th in Casablanca. Speaking at a cer ...

Rabat, May 15, 2012 (MAP) Moroccan head of government Abdelilah Benkirane said, on Monday at the House of Representatives, that "it is impossible to implement" the Minutes of July 20, signed with the coordination of unemployed graduates, arguing that its provisions are "unconstitutional and does not comply to status of the civil service ". "Recruitment into the civil service shall be made on the basis of me ...

Rabat, May 10, 2012 (MAP) King Mohammed VI received, on Thursday at the Royal Palace in Rabat, Amina Lamrini El Ouahabi and Jamal Eddine Naji, whom the Sovereign appointed President of Higher Council of Audiovisual Communication and Director General of the Audiovisual Communication, respectively. On this occasion, King Mohammed VI praised the human qualities, professionalism, integrity, extensive know-how a ...

Rabat, May 7, 2012 (MAP) Senegalese Foreign Minister Alioune Badara highlighted, on Monday in Rabat, the Kingdom’s important role in Africa, saying that the African Union is inconceivable without Morocco. Without Morocco, the African Union is like a body whose part is missing preventing it from going or seeing far, the Senegalese Minister told the Press following talks with Foreign Minister Saad Dine El Otm ...

RABAT, May 5, 2012 (AFP) Morocco said Saturday it had broken up a "terrorist network" active in several cities in the country and that had links to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). The network is "led by a leading figure of Mujahideen of Morocco", a little known group with ties to international terror groups, the ministry said. The group's head was the subject of several national and international ar ...

By Nidal Chebbak Morocco World News Fez, May 5, 2012 A question to the ladies: Have you ever thought of or considered giving birth in a truck, a taxi, on the floor or at the door of the hospital, or even on the street? No? Well, neither those women we heard about lately did. It is so outraging to read on the news every single day that a pregnant woman in labor was denied access to the hospital to give birth ...

By Nidal Chebbak Morocco World News Fez, May 5, 2012 The ISIS Centre for Women and Development and South-North Centre organize the International Symposium on “The Marriage of Minor Girls: Legal and Socio-cultural Perspectives” on May 5-6 at Palais des Congès, in Fez. The international Symposium, which is organized in partnership with the National Union of Women’s Organizations and Vital Voices Organization, ...

Rabat, May 3, 2012 (MAP) The Supreme Ulema Council condemned in the strongest terms the burning of copies of the holy Quran by a US pastor. This senseless act represents a provocation to the feelings of Muslims from around the world, the Council said in a statement. The Council, whose Chairman is King Mohammed VI, Commander of the Faithful, noted the responsibility of custodians of religions from around the ...

Morocco World News/Maghreb Intelligence Rabat, May 1, 2012 According to some parliamentary sources, Bassima Elhakawi, the Islamist minister of solidarity, women, family and social development, is about to give a fatal blow to the Agenda of Equality between men and women, adopted under the government of Abbas El Fassi. The aim of this Agenda was to strengthen the conditions and capacities of women’s particip ...

By Zakia Abdennebi RABAT, April 30, 2012 (Reuters) Morocco's justice minister said he would not stop the trial of an outspoken rapper charged with insulting the authorities in one of his songs, despite an outcry from rights campaigners who say the case is an attack on freedom of expression. Human rights activists had expected this sort of prosecution would cease after a moderate Islamist opposition party, t ...