Morocco

Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir sent a letter to the Moroccan King Mohamed VI asking him to support the Sudanese candidate for the World Health Organisation, Moheet.com reported yesterday. Al-Sudani...

The introduction of the European state model and collapse of the Ottoman Empire, not Islam, is at the root of regional violence today When we talk about the roots...

Two Moroccan rights groups have criticised the prosecution of a novelist after he was accused of defamation, the Anadolu Agency reported yesterday. Media and Expression Liberties Organisation and House...

As many as 175,000 people have lost their jobs in the farming sector this year due to the severe drought which has led to a four per cent decline...

Several months ago, Moroccan foreign relations reached a political impasse. The Sahara affair, more particularly, led the kingdom's relations with the UN secretary general, the US, the EU and...

The security authorities in Morocco have denied media reports claiming they issued instructions to intensify the use of arms against suspects. The Moroccan Directorate General of National Security said...

A Moroccan organisation concerned with expatriate affairs has called on the government in Rabat to allow five million Moroccans living and working overseas to participate in the legislative elections...

Twenty-eight people were wounded in a riot on Thursday night in a prison for young offenders in the Moroccan city of Casablanca

Morocco's interior ministry yesterday announced that police had arrested 52 people suspected of having links to Daesh and who had planned several attacks in the kingdom. The operation which...

In a region of rapidly escalating instability, Morocco is trying to concretise the recipe for reform and stability. Nevertheless, government officials complain frequently about recurrent signs of despotism in...

Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal has reiterated that the Western Sahara is a founding member of the African Union and Morocco has to stop calling for its membership withdrawal,...

"You cannot issue a perfunctory end of summit declaration saying that you support Palestine, for example, and then embrace the apartheid state of Israel. Nor can you make noises about democratic representation, and then support moves to suppress democratic election results"

The Turkish embassy in Rabat has provided the Moroccan foreign ministry information about Fethullah Gulen's institutions in the kingdom in the hope that action will be taken against them,...

Morocco's King Mohammed VI has announced that his country wants to reintegrate the African Union, 32 years after it let the organization. "For a long time, our friends have been...

The government in Rabat has started official efforts for Morocco to rejoin the African Union unconditionally; the country left the 52-member state body 32 years ago. The news was...

Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Salaheddine Mezouar said that he conveyed a message from King Mohammed VI to Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi in which he stressed the...

Western Sahara independence movement Polisario Front has elected Ibrahim Ghali as secretary-general and president of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. Algeria's APS news agency reported that Ghali was elected...

Moroccan Minister Delegate to the Minister of Industry, Trade, Investment and the Digital Economy Mohamed Abbou on Tuesday denied any trade relations between his country and Israel, stressing that...

The Moroccan Minister of Economy and Finance Mohammed Bou Said said on Tuesday that the country's first financial institution fully compliant with the principles of Islamic sharia law will...

The Moroccan Organisation for Human Rights has called on the Egyptian judiciary to overturn the death sentence issued to ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. In a statement issued yesterday,...

Moroccan Jew Sion Asidon is leading a campaign to boycott Israeli dates, especially during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan; when the fruit is mostly consumed. Asidon and his...

A Moroccan minister said on Tuesday that his country has thwarted more than 30,000 attempts at illegal immigration since 2002. "Our policy is to make a great effort to...

Dozens of Moroccans unionists protested on Tuesday in front of the Moroccan pension fund in Rabat against the government's plan to reform the pension system. The proposed changes to...

French Foreign Ministry Spokesman Romain Nadal said on Monday that France is in close contact with all partners, especially Egypt and the Arab League, in preparation for a scheduled...

Sheikh Ali Belhadj, second in command of the Islamic Salvation Front, called on Sunday for the opening of the borders between Algeria and Morocco in order to strengthen religion,...

When the King of Morocco addressed Gulf leaders in Riyadh recently and denounced foreign powers' double standards in the region, the US State Department's annual human rights report was...

Dozens of public sector doctors in Morocco organised a protest in front of the Ministry of Health in Rabat to demand better working conditions yesterday. The participants condemned the...

The United States does not have the right to criticise Morocco's human rights record, the country's  Minister of Justice and Liberties, Mustapha Ramid, said, adding that his government is...

The Palestine Media Forum, National Syndicate of the Moroccan Press and the Moroccan Federation of Newspaper Publishers signed an agreement of cooperation to further the Palestinian cause. Hisham Kassim, head of the Palestine Media Forum which...

Moroccan Interior Ministry Delegate Charki Draiss said on Wednesday that 10 million Moroccans have benefited from Morocco's National Initiative of Human Development (INDH), Anadolu reported. In his speech during...

Morocco allocated $188 million to fight corruption on Tuesday after announcing the launch of a national strategy to fight the issue and signing ten agreements with non-governmental sectors to...

Disagreement over Ban Ki-moon's position on the Sahara affair peaked in March. Consequently, the UN's annual April meeting to renew the mandate for the Mission for the Referendum in...