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Official Draw of 2014 FIFA Club World Cup Takes Place in Marrakech
Marrakech- The draw of the FIFA Club World Cup due to take place on December 10-20 in Morocco was held on Saturday in Marrakech. Five clubs have so far qualified for this year’s edition of the Club...
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American Rabbi Calls for Extermination of Muslims
New York - In an alarming hate speech that went unreported in American mainstream media, an American Rabbi called simply for extermination of Muslims and a “holy crusade” against them. In a sermon he...
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IMF Revises Estimates for Morocco’s Economic Growth
Rabat - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has revised its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) estimates for Morocco downwards to 3.5% for 2014, against 3.9% projected in July last year. This is still...
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Moroccan Tourism Sleep Walks Into a Crisis
Marrakech- An editorial in the daily newspaper L’Economiste commented that France was panicking over the security situation after the beheading of French citizen Herve Gourdel in Algeria while Morocco...
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Saudi Security Guard Slaps a Hajji in Mecca
Taroudant, Morocco - A video posted on YouTube shows one of the Saudi security guards slapping and screaming at a Hajji in the presence of women who seems to be his wife. The incident took place during...
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Moroccan Rapper Arrested for Song Misusing National Anthem
Rabat - Following in the footsteps of Mouad Belghouat, known as Alhaked, a Moroccan rapper who was jailed in 2012 for insulting two police officers, young rapper Othman A., nicknamed "Mister Crazy" is...
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Marrakech to host 5th Global Entrepreneurship Summit on Nov. 19-21
Rabat - The 5th Edition of the Global Entrepreneurship Summit Morocco will be held as scheduled in Marrakech on November 19-21, 2014, said Monday the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation....
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OCP has several projects under way to expand output: OBG
London - The Moroccan state-owned Office Chérifien de Phosphates (OCP) has several projects under way to expand output, with most analysts predicting a recovery in the global market by 2016, said...
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Moroccan Minister of Tourism Denies Fall in Reservations from France
Rabat - Moroccan Minister of Tourism Lahcen Haddad announced the creation of a watch cell to monitor the development of the French tourism market. In a statement to Agency of Maghreb Arab Press (PAM),...
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ISIS jihadists boast of enslaving Yazidi women
Baghad - The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group said that it has given Yazidi women and children captured in northern Iraq to its fighters as spoils of war, boasting it had revived slavery....
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Morocco’s Supreme Council for Education Prepares Strategic Roadmap for Reform
Rabat - The Supreme Council for Education, Training, and Scientific Research is preparing a strategic report that will detail a roadmap for comprehensive reform of the national system of education and...
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King Mohammed VI Calls for Pooling Energies to Rise to Challenge of a...
Marrakech - King Mohammed VI has called for uniting and pooling energies to rise to the great challenge of the 21st century: that of a united, stable and prosperous Africa. "Our changing continent...
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Arrest Made in Connection with Murder of Moroccan Diplomat in South Africa
Rabat - Following ambiguous circumstances surrounding the recent assassination of Fatmi Noureddine, an officer in charge of consular affairs at the Moroccan Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, the...
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EU Operation to Crackdown on Illegal Immigrants
Marrakech- A Europe-wide operation, backed by Italy, which has the European Union presidency, was proposed in an EU memo dated 10 July 2014. The document calls for a joint police operation “Mos...
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Dallas to Host 2014 Morocco Trade & Investment Forum
Washington DC - A high-level Moroccan Trade Delegation will visit the United States for a second time this year at the 2014 Morocco Trade & Investment Forum in Dallas, Texas, on Thursday. The...
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Moroccan Bakery Owners to Increase Bread Prices
Rabat - The National Federation of owners of bakeries will increase the cost of a loaf of bread throughout Morocco without the approval of the government, according to Tuesday’s issue of the Moroccan...
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Morocco Ranks Third Most Friendly Country for Foreign Tourists
Taroudant - Morocco ranked third in the 2013 world rankings of the most welcoming country for foreign tourists, according to the World Economic Forum's Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report (WEF)...
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Only 5% of Moroccan primary students read in French, Minister
Taroudante- Only 5% of primary students in Morocco can read in French. The statistic was recently announced in an interview with Menara last week, Abdelaâdim Guerrouj, Minister Delegate to the Minister...
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Algeria: Olympian Hassiba Boulmerka “Confuses” Sahrawis and Kabyles at the U.N
Washington DC- Moroccans are accustomed to Algeria’s anti-Morocco rhetoric when it comes to the Western Sahara conflict that opposes the two nations. Algeria dispatches on a regular basis national and...
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Algerian Police Stage Protest in Ghardaia
Marrakeh- Hundreds of Algerian police officers staged a protest, on Monday October 13, 2014, in the city of Ghardaia (600 km south of Algiers) to show solidarity with their colleagues in the adjacent...
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