Morocco

An Italian court yesterday sentenced a Moroccan citizen to four years in prison for planning a terrorist attack on a shopping centre in the north of the country. State...

Moroccan King Mohammed VI has instructed security forces to withdraw from the northern cities of Al Hoceima and Imzouren after violent clashes erupted between police and protesters in the...

Morocco has remained the world's largest producer of cannabis, according to a report released by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) last week. The annual "World...

All cases of torture raised in the troubled Moroccan city of Al-Hoceima will be subject to medical examinations, according to government spokesman and Minister of Communications, Mustapha El Khalfi,...

Some 150 people have been arrested in Morocco's Rif after protests turned violent this week, scores of policemen were injured and a number of children were hospitalised after they...

Morocco has recalled its ambassador in the Hague after accusing Dutch authorities of failing to take action against a Moroccan it says is funding civil unrest and who is...

Popular protests resumed Thursday night in the northern city of Al-Hoceima – and in several other Moroccan cities – following Taraweeh (nighttime Ramadan prayers) as two prominent human rights...

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have criticised the Moroccan police's handling of the arrest of a popular protest leader who was "severely" beaten and verbally abused. Nasser Zefzafi,...

Syrian refugees left on the Algeria-Morocco border have been allowed into Morocco

Developments in the Gulf have cast a shadow over the political landscape in the entire Arab world. As is the case with all significant political events, positions and judgments...

Morocco has announced that it will find a solution for issue of the Syrian refugees stranded on its border with Algeria. According to a statement from the royal cabinet...

1,500 break fast meals were distributed by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ) on 20 June 2017 in an effort to 'build bridges' between Jews, Christians and Muslims this Ramadan

The French authorities formally charged a police officer on Friday of passing secret documents to Moroccan intelligence agents, Anadolu has reported. The unidentified officer was arrested at the end...

One quarter of registered blood donations in Morocco are collected through mosques across the country, Mohamed Binajiba, head of the National Centre for Blood Donation, told Anadolu yesterday as...

A Moroccan rights activist has criticised Abu Dhabi TV channel for broadcasting a map of Morocco which does not include the Western Sahara. In an interview with Quds Press, human...

The Moroccan government has promised that there will be no water crisis or shortages in the turbulent Al Hoceima until 2035. The promise was made yesterday during a meeting held...

The visit to Morocco by newly-elected French President Emmanuel Macron will be a private affair aimed at strengthening the bonds of friendship with King Mohammed VI, an official statement...

A historic demonstration was held by popular and democratic forces in Morocco on Sunday to denounce the repression against Rif popular protests and call for social and economic rights....

Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Rabat yesterday to call for the release of detained members of the Rif protest movement, Hirak Al-Shaabi, reported local media. The...

Protesters, supporting Rif Movement leader Nasser Zefzafi, stage a demonstration demanding the government to take action for developing the region in Hoceima

Protesters, supporting Rif Movement leader Nasser Zefzafi, stage a demonstration demanding the government to take action for developing the region

Following Morocco's refusal to hand over the stranded Syrian refugees to Algeria, the president of the Algerian Red Crescent has expressed "revolt" and "sadness" to see "Morocco…exploit human misery...

Moroccan authorities have arrested two more leaders of a protest movement that has been rallying for the last two weeks against corruption and unemployment in the region. The northern...

15 women claim they have been badly treated in detention in the Gulf kingdom

Moroccan authorities have refused to extradite an estimated 42 Syrian refugees who have been stranded for the last two months between the Algeria and Morocco border, to an Algerian...

The Moroccan government's treatment of protesters in the north of the country is "confounded", former Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane said on Saturday. Member of the National Youth Bureau of...

Bahrain shut down yesterday the independent daily newspaper Al-Wasat "until further notice" over an article about unrest in Morocco, while authorities are cracking down on dissent in the country,...

Moroccan authorities stifled a women's protest against official abuses and corruption on Saturday in a northern town where months of unrest has tested the North African kingdom. The protest...

This turmoil is considered to be the most violent since 2011, when citizens called for more democracy in the kingdom.

Moroccan Prime Minister, Saadeddine Othmani, said his government is working to respond to the Rif region demands as "quickly and duly as possible". "The issue of Al-Hoceima is always...

Moroccans in the diaspora destroyed their Moroccan passports in an act of solidarity.

The Moroccan Foreign Ministry yesterday stated that King Mohammed VI has cancelled his attendance of the 51st Summit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) because Israeli...