Morocco

The number of foreign tourists who visited Morocco during the first five months of 2015 has reached nearly 3.5 million, a fall of 1.1 per cent compared to the...

Morocco has achieved a $533 million surplus in its budget, the Ministry of Economy and Finance announced, after recording a deficit of $14.45 million last year. Observers believe the...

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika yesterday announced his determination to develop his country's links with Morocco following decades of strained relations, the local APS news agency reported. In a congratulatory...

Members of the Arab Peace Initiative are to meet in 5 August to discuss the escalation in violence and Israeli actions in occupied Jerusalem, the Anadolu Agency reported. Palestinian...

Morocco yesterday condemned Israeli police and troops who stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque, calling on the international community to protect it "in order to avoid inciting Muslims' feelings", Jordan's Al-Ghad newspaper...

Approximately 300 Moroccans involved with jihadist movements have been killed in the last two years, AFP reported the Moroccan Interior Minister Mohamed Hassad as saying. Speaking to reporters, Hassad...

In a season marked by various union, local and parliamentary elections, Moroccan political parties, trade unions and civil society have exchanged hidden messages about the expected electoral heat. True,...

Moroccan Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane has said that "political, economic and social reforms in Morocco have contributed to the kingdom's stability and security and enhanced its status as an...

The Moroccan delegate to the minister of foreign affairs and cooperation, Mbarka Bouaida, has revealed that more than 70,000 Moroccan citizens have been removed from Libya since the start...

Foreign direct investment in Morocco has increased by 19.6 per cent during the first half of 2015, the country's Exchange Office has revealed. Investment totalled $1.32 billion compared with...

The Moroccan Ministry of Tourism is taking steps to combat any negative effects from the unrest and terror attacks affecting neighbouring countries, a senior minister has said. While briefing...

Member of the International Union of Muslim Scholar Dr Ali Al-Sallabi called for more dialogue between the UN and Libyan parties in order to achieve real stability, Quds Press...

A UN-proposed peace deal for Libya was signed late Saturday in Morocco by some parties to the country's ongoing political crisis, including representatives of Libya's Tobruk-based parliament. Representatives of...

Morocco's GDP is expected to grow by 4.7 per cent during the third quarter of 2015, the country's planning agency said on Tuesday. The agency said in a statement...

Italian cyber security firm Hacking Team, which sells intrusion and surveillance tools to governments and law enforcement agencies, effectively helping them to "spy" on certain targets, has itself become...

In Ramadan, politics in Morocco usually abate to devote more public focus on spiritual life. This year, successive incidents have kept the level of social debate high. In addition...

The ongoing media war between Morocco and Algeria has been fuelled by new accusations following the deadly attack in neighbouring Tunisia against tourists on Friday. Algeria's L'Expression newspaper on...

Two warring Libyan parties yesterday held the first ever face-to-face UN-sponsored meeting in the Moroccan city of Skhirat from which a draft agreement is expected to be announced soon,...

The Kingdom of Morocco has expressed its anger at the report published a few days ago by Iranian Fars news agency accusing Morocco of executing an "Israeli agenda". The...

French National Assembly yesterday voted in favour of a protocol for mutual judicial assistance between France and Morocco signed earlier this year. Both socialist and right-wing lawmakers voted in...

The World Justice Project (WJP) has ranked the Egyptian judiciary 86th out of 102 countries surveyed in the latest index which measures the rule of law based on the...

Even though the current Islamist-led government includes parties from across the political-ideological spectrum, Morocco has witnessed an unprecedented "assault" recently on its religious values and social cohesion, triggering reactions...

The Moroccan Foreign Minister Salaheddine Mezouar accused Algeria of exploiting the African Union to distort Morocco's image. During his meeting with the Togolese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Robert Dussey,...

"A sailing boat is not your town square, where if you have an argument you can just get up and leave," explains Maria Vittoria Pericu. "On a boat you...

The defence ministers of the 5+5 Mediterranean countries met in Tunisia yesterday to discuss the escalations in the region. This year the meeting coincides with the visit of NATO's...

More than half a million Syrian refugees received medical care from the Moroccan Field Surgical Hospital since 2012 in the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, Morocco's national news agency...

The Moroccan delegate to the minister of foreign affairs and cooperation, Mbarka Buaadh, has welcomed what she described as France's "firm position" on the Western Sahara and Paris' support...

EU Commission in Morocco has denied plans that it has applied for African countries on the Mediterranean to host drone airbases to track migrants to European countries, the Anadolu...

Once the proposed visit to Morocco of Israel's former President Shimon Peres appeared on the radar of human rights advocates and anti-Zionism civil society, news of advocacy protests went...

Algeria's Minister Delegate for Maghreb and African Affairs Abdelkader Messahel has denied the need for international mediation between his country and Morocco. In response to a question about some...

Moroccan Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane yesterday asked three ministers to resign, the Royal Court announced. According to the Anadolu Agency, the Royal Court said that the King accepted the...

The Moroccan agency responsible for drilling for oil and gas announced a gas discovery at a depth of 1,263 metres to the west of the country. In a statement...