Morocco

The Moroccan government called on Algeria to cooperate in the fight against drug trafficking across the Algerian-Moroccan border, rather than directing charges against Rabat which hamper efforts in this...

A Moroccan student died yesterday after a 72-day hunger strike in prison in the city of Fez, north of the country, the Anadolu news agency reported. The administration of...

Algeria is keen on building normal relations with Morocco and forming the Arab Maghreb Union while respecting the right of Saharan people to self-determination, Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra said...

King Mohammed VI of Morocco has received a letter from the president of Mauritania in a move seen by many observers that could restore diplomatic relations between Rabat and...

The Moroccan Foreign Ministry renewed its call on Tuesday for the Algerian authorities to convene a meeting of the Moroccan-Algerian joint committee to address the rights of displaced Moroccans...

Tens of thousands of Moroccans staged a popular protest to denounce the Israeli assault on Gaza and to show solidarity with the Palestinian people. Protesters raised banners condemning Israeli...

In the height of the summer, with nowhere to shelter from the sun, a group of people stand waiting to enter the UNHCR offices in Rabat, Morocco. Ahmed, whose...

In the height of the summer, with nowhere to shelter from the sun, a group of people stand waiting to enter the UNHCR offices in Rabat, Morocco. Ahmed, whose...

Mohammed El Hamdaoui likens the Islamic Unification and Reform Movement (URM) in Morocco, of which he is the President, to a football team. "If you look at the structure...

Algeria issued harsh criticism on Saturday of remarks made by the Moroccan Foreign Minister, Salaheddine Mezouar, describing them as "shameful". According to Anadolu news agency, Algeria's official news agency...

The Moroccan political experience under the Islamists Justice and Development Party coalition government has provided a model across the region despite the challenges encountered and tremors that followed the...

Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin-Hamad Al-Thani has donated $4 million to a Moroccan NGO headed by the King Mohamed VI in order to support social and educational projects, masralarabia....

Mustapha El-Khalfi calls the Arab Spring of 2011 the "democratic spring" though it's hard to see how it earned that name. There is a civil war raging in Syria,...

The Spanish and Moroccan authorities yesterday thwarted attempts by 500 African migrants to illegally enter the city of Melilla, a semi-autonomous region in the north-east of Morocco held under...

After completing half of its term, the Moroccan government led by the Justice and Development Party (PJD) for the first time in history, speculation has started regarding its destiny...

The ministry of Moroccans living abroad and migration affairs signed on Friday a number of partnership agreements with NGOs and government sectors aimed at helping migrants and asylum applicants...

The Moroccan government yesterday endorsed a bill creating a national body to ensure integrity by fighting and preventing bribery. The body will benefit from financial independence and specialise in...

The Moroccan parliament approved unanimously yesterday a bill that changes the Constitutional Council into a Constitutional Court, Anadolu news agency said. The Moroccan Constitutional Council was established in 1996....

Dozens of Moroccan women demonstrated outside the Moroccan parliament yesterday, to protest against remarks made by Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane who said that women should stay at home instead...

On this world date to combat desertification – and when considering the great mountain ranges in Morocco as well as desert – we point to conditions replete with prosperity-potential,...

Dutch ambassador in Tel-Aviv Caspar Veldkamp has revealed that a number of Arabic and Islamic states had set up commercial relationships with Israel through his country. These states such...

A Kurdish oil tanker's second attempt at selling crude oil was thwarted yesterday after Moroccan authorities ordered the tanker to leave its waters. The tanker, United Leadership – a...

Morocco's King Mohamed VI has called for the establishment of "a large, strong and capable" Arab Maghreb Federation. In a speech before the Tunisian National Constituent Assembly on Saturday,...

Tunisia and Morocco signed 23 agreements on Friday in a number of fields. These included cooperation agreements in the fields of security, development, industry, technology, scientific research, education, health...

A new study published including Moroccan lecturer Said Haddad confirmed that Military institutions in the Maghreb are not similar and each has its own independent relationship with the politics...

Ennahda, the Islamic party in Tunisia, won 41% of the seats of the Tunisian constitutional assembly last month, causing consternation in the west. But Ennahda will not be an...

A Moroccan Criminal Court sentenced on Tuesday a British man to 20 years in prison on charges of attempting to kidnap and rape three minors, a judicial source reported....

If the UN Security Council does not bear responsibility for ending the occupation in the Western Sahara, Morocco will continue hindering negotiations with the Polisario Front, the organisation's representative...

The Moroccan Minister of State, Mohammed Yazghi, has denied the recent allegations published in Algerian newspapers about a Moroccan security plan to send dozens of Moroccans into Algeria to...

Moroccan police have arrested 13 people following clashes between police forces and demonstrators protesting against police brutality in Tiflet, 54 Kilometres east of the capital Rabat; human rights activists...

Rabat and Tehran decided on Wednesday to resume diplomatic relations, which had been severed since March 2009. The Moroccan press linked the decision to Iran's improving relations with Western...

A spokesperson for the Moroccan Ministry of the Interior told Agence France-Presse on Tuesday that the Algerian ambassador in Rabat had been summoned to hear an official protest about...