Morocco World News New York, April 23, 2013 We are happy to inform our dear and loyal readers in Morocco and all over the world that MWN was the first news outlet in Morocco and worldwide to announce the withdrawal of the US proposal on the establishment of a human rights monitoring mechanism in the Sahara. We broke the news in this regard immediately after we received the confirmation from our trusted sour ...

By Youssef El Kaidi Morocco World News Fez, April 8, 2013 Many people have deeply sympathized with the young Moroccan engineer Mohamed Amine Bouabdelli who was in need of a huge amount of money for a heart transplant in France. Some people launched Facebook pages and engaged in campaigns to raise funds for his operation. Media have intensively participated in this campaign by showing the case of the young m ...

MADRID, March 11, 2013 (AFP) A crowd of African migrants stormed a border fence and crossed illegally from Morocco into Spanish territory on Monday, leaving 12 people injured, authorities said. The migrants surged over the fence into the Spanish enclave of Melilla on the northern coast of Morocco, the local Spanish government delegation said in a statement. "A group of 150 sub-Saharans carried out a massive ...

CAIRO, March 5, 2013 (AFP) Former presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh said Tuesday his party will contest Egypt's next parliamentary elections, boycotted by the main opposition coalition. The Strong Egypt Party is to field candidates in the staggered legislative polls which start on April 22. Abul Fotouh told reporters in Cairo he believed parties had to "stand up to authority" in order to avoid ...

Morocco World News with agencies Rabat, February 18, 2013 The Vice-President of the Centre for Research and Studies in Social Sciences (CRESS), Amina Messaoudi and Director of the Centre for Constitutional Studies and Policies (CECOP) M'hamed Maliki on Sunday highlighted the importance of the Autonomy Plan, presented by Morocco in April 2007, as a “credible” and a “serious” solution to the Sahara conflict, ...

Marrakesh, February 15, 2013 (MAP) “Morocco ambitions to reach a production of 2,000 Megawatts of solar energy by 2020,” said the chairman of the Moroccan solar energy agency (MASEN), Mustapha Bakkoury. Under an ambitious plan adopted in this regard, Morocco wants to reduce its energy dependence and stimulate national and foreign investments in solar and wind energies, said Bakkoury in Marrakesh during a co ...

By Jamal Saidi Morocco World News Meknes, February 10, 2013 Islam and Judaism are two recognized religions in Morocco. Muslims constitute the absolute majority of the population. Jews are numbered in few thousands. But there are other Moroccans who were born of Muslim parents and chose to leave Islam. A considerable number of them are converted to Christianity. According to the daily Al Massae, Christianity ...

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 ...

By Samir Bennis Morocco World News New York, February 4, 2013 The Moroccan nationalists and the advent of the Republic In Spanish literature on the relations between Morocco and Spain, there is one aspect that is more often than not overlooked when trying to understand the reasons why Moroccan nationalists rallied to the cause of the franquistas. Often some commentators dwell on the pivotal role played by t ...

By Youssef El Kaidi Morocco World News Fez, January 24, 2013 Throughout human history, there were always violent and aggressive acts perpetrated hither and thither by people against each other- or against the self- in form of physical or psychological abuses such as murders, injuries, humiliations, intimidations, wars, etc. The brutality of what happens every day in Syria and in many other parts of the worl ...

By Khalil Zakari Morocco World News Meknes, Morocco, January 04, 2013 In collaboration with The Moroccan Center for Arabic Studies and Morocco World News, Samir Bennis - Co-Founder/Editor-in-Chief of MWN gave  a talk this Friday afternoon about his own experience in setting up and running a news agency that is dedicated to covering current political, economic, cultural and educational issues to a global fol ...

Morocco World News New York, December 31, 2012 Morocco World News nominated the Kenitra-based association Asdikaa Al Khier (friends for the common good) Moroccan NGO of the year.  It is commonplace nowadays to use the term civil society to reference ordinary citizens who are not policy-makers. There is a pervasive emancipation of civil society in a wide array of fields ranging from sustainable development t ...