Morocco

Morocco's official Planning Directorate revealed shocking figures last week concerning the labour market and the millions of unemployed youth in a country where they make up 75 per cent...

Morocco's Justice and Charity Party, the largest Islamist opposition group in the country, has reported that dozens of its affiliates have either been sacked or transferred in their employment,...

A Moroccan professor of political sciences, Dr Abdul Ali Al-Hoor, has called for a review of the country's electoral system in order to produce strong parties that would enable...

The head of Morocco's Istiqlal (Independence) Party, Hamid Chabat, has stirred controversy among political circles in the country after accusing the so-called deep state of committing economic crimes and...

The ongoing territorial dispute between the Sahrawi people of the Western Sahara and the Kingdom of Morocco is one of the manifestations of the unfortunate tragedies of the West's...

The European Union must uphold its decision to recognise the "separate and distinct" character of the Western Sahara and not give in to pressure from Morocco, an Algerian diplomat...

Protesters clashed with riot police in northern Morocco on Sunday evening as people marked the anniversary of the death of an anti-colonial hero, leaving 27 injured, according to authorities....

Morocco's government said today it would end economic cooperation with the European Union if the bloc does not honour a farming deal, weeks after an EU court ruled that...

Among his most recent media coverage, Abdelilah Benkiran, designated as Morocco's head of government, reaffirmed the halting of government-forming negotiations. After four months of trying, he admits bluntly to...

A political sciences professor at the University of Algiers, Dr Abdelali Razzaghi, has said that his country would not alter its support for the separatist Western Sahara's Polisario Front...

Morocco's King Mohammed VI hailed on Tuesday his country's official return to the African Union after 33 years of absence. "I am finally home" King Mohammed VI said in...

Morocco has accused the African Union (AU) Commission's head, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, of blocking its efforts to re-join the Union 32 years after it departed it, the country's foreign ministry...

Moroccan authorities said today that they had arrested seven suspected militants linked to Daesh and seized weapons and explosive belts. A statement from the interior ministry said the group...

Moroccan people stage a protest demanding the release of their relatives during a demonstration against the killing of security forces in the Western Sahara in 2010

Pro-Palestine Moroccan activists have called for Arab and Islamic states to take action against the plans of US President Donald Trump to move his country's embassy from Tel Aviv...

The ex-Foreign Minister of Morocco, Saad Eddine Othmani, said on Thursday that parliament's adoption of the African Union Charter as a prelude to rejoining the bloc after 32 years...

While the Moroccan public are increasingly irritated at the obstacles delaying the formation of the second post-2011 government, the three-month political void does little to reward voters' perseverance on...

A protest against banning the sale and production of burqas at shops.

The King of Morocco is to attend the African Union (AU) summit set to be held on 28 January in Addis Ababa. According to Prime Minister-designate Abdelilah Benkirane, King...

Morocco's Prime Minister-designate said on Friday that the discussions to form a new government, ongoing since October, face a "real blockage," Quds Press has reported. "Nevertheless," said Abdelilah Benkirane,...

Human Rights Watch has condemned the expulsion of several observers in Western Sahara. HRW's World Report 2017, released on Thursday, refers specifically to the case of Carlos Beristain, a...

Describing the 7 October elections in Morocco as a political earthquake is no exaggeration. Given the mounting levels of literacy and social media savvy, votes in cities were expected...

Morocco's city of Marrakesh has been listed in French daily Le Monde's list of 20 must-visit cities this year. Marrakech was also shortlisted as part of The New York...

Two major bus crashes in Morocco and Algeria over the weekend have killed a total of 19 people and injured almost three dozen, local media reports claimed. The worst...

Morocco's prime minister has broken off talks to form a new government with two main coalition partners three months after the country's elections, deepening the worst political deadlock since...

The US Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA, has warned Morocco that Daesh could carry out attacks in Morocco and Tunisia using trucks similar to those in Berlin and Nice...

The secretary-general of Morocco's Popular Movement, Mohanad Laenser, revealed yesterday that the new Moroccan government's political make-up will likely include the same parties that the former coalition government was...

Two Moroccan UN peacekeepers in Central African Republic were killed and two others wounded by unknown attackers in the southeast of the country, the UN mission there said yesterday....

Around 1,100 sub-Saharan African migrants tried to cross into Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco on Sunday by storming a border fence, though most were eventually turned...

Moroccan Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane's visit to Mauritania on behalf of Morocco's King Mohamed VI has not gone well, according to state news site Le 360. Benkirane was dispatched to...

Morocco's only oil refiner, Samir, has received a $3 billion offer from an Italian law firm operating on behalf of an unnamed bidder, Reuters has reported. Samir's management said...

Morocco's prime minister has gone ahead with a visit to Mauritania despite political tension arising from comments made by opposition politician Hamid Chabat, the General Secretary of the Istiqlal...