Latest Morocco News
RSS-
Kuwait Morocco Sign Cooperative Agreements
(MENAFN - Qatar News Agency) Kuwait and Morocco signed a number of cooperative agreements as the first session of the Kuwaiti-Moroccan Commercial Committee wound up here on Tuesday. The deals were signed by Kuwaiti Minister of Commerce and Industry Anas Al-Saleh and his Moroccan counterpart Abdulkader Amara. The agreements are related to executive programs for drawing foreign investment, ...
-
IHT Special In Morocco TV Is Part of Power Game
Morocco 's Islamist-led government in April last year to make television reform one of its top priorities has turned the country's media industry into a pawn in an escalating power tussle between the governing Justice and Development Party and the Royal ...
-
Morocco Speaker of the Basque Parliament Receives Speaker of the Sahrawi National Council
Vitoria - The Speaker of the National Council, a member of the National Secretariat of The POLISARIO Front, Mr. Khatri Adouh, received Thursday in the Basque capital Vitoria, by the Speaker of the Parliament of the Basque Ms. Bakrtpeixo Tejeria. the meeting discussed bilateral relations, which ties Western Sahara and the Basque, and studied ways to strengthen and develop these relations. They ...
More Morocco News
RSS-
Gibraltar Moves Toward UEFA Membership as Spain Resists
GIBRALTAR ...
-
Morocco sets final spread on tap of 2022 and 2042 Eurobonds
By Abhinav Ramnarayan Wed May 22, 2013 11:41am EDT LONDON, May 22 (IFR) - The Kingdom of Morocco has set a final spread on a tap of its 2022 and 2042 US dollar bonds. The sovereign, rated BBB-/BBB-, has set a final level of 220bp over US Treasuries for a tap of its USD1bn 4.25% December 2022 note and of 237.5bp over US Treasuries for a tap of its USD500m 5.50% December 2042 note. Initial ...
-
Real Estate in Morocco
In the five years leading to the international financial crisis in 2008, house prices in Morocco rose 35 to 40 percent; since the crisis they have settled in at 20 to 30 percent below their peak, said Loc Raboteau, the head of the French and North Africa Law Department at the law firm Kobalt Law in London. Foreign buyers typically constitute about 10 percent of the residential real estate ...
-
International Real Estate Real Estate in Morocco
A RESTORED 19TH-CENTURY HOME IN MARRAKESH $1.3 MILLION (11 MILLION DIRHAMS) This traditional Moroccan house, known as a riad, has 4,300 square feet of space over two floors surrounding an enclosed courtyard. Dating to the 19th century, it has five bedroom suites and a multilevel roof terrace with views of the minarets of the medina, or old city, of Marrakesh, according to Younes ...
-
Interior Minister Receives Bahraini Ambassador to Morocco
Manama, May 22. (BNA) -- Interior Minister Lieutenant-General Shaikh Rashid bin Abdulla Al Khalifa received here today the newly-appointed Bahraini Ambassador to Morocco Khalid bin Salman bin Jabr Al-Musallam. Shaikh Rashid congratulated Ambassador Al-Musallam on his appointment by His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, wishing him every success. W H Q BNA 1325 GMT ...
-
Intifada for Independence a New Turning Point in Sahrawi Struggle Says President Abdelaziz
Tifariti - The Intifada for independence in the occupied Sahrawi territories, southern Morocco and universities is a "new turning point" in the Sahrawi struggle, started over forty years ago, said Tuesday Sahrawi President Mohamed Abdelaziz "It is natural that the commemoration of the Intifada for independence and the 40thanniversary of the outbreak of armed struggle underline ...
-
Brazilian Communist Party Appreciates Its Solidarity and Cooperation Relations With the Polisario
Tifariti - The representative of the Brazilian Communist Party, Mr. Michel Chaga, who attended the celebrations commemorating 40th anniversary of outbreak of the armed struggle, appreciated relationships of solidarity and cooperation that combine his party with the Polisario Front. Mr. Chaga said, speaking from the liberated town of Tifariti during the event opening, that the Brazilian ...
-
U.A.E. Banks to Morocco Return to Bond Market as Yields Drop
Two United Arab Emirates banks raised $1.3 billion from bonds sales and Morocco plans to boost the size of its existing dollar-denominated notes ...
-
VimpelCom and Algerian govt halt talks for Djezzy
Negotiations between the Algerian government and Russian telco VimpelCom Group regarding the former’s purchase of local mobile subsidiary Djezzy - a unit of VimpelCom - a have reportedly been suspended, two unnamed government officials indicated to Dow Jones Newswires. According to the anonymous sources, at a meeting in Paris two weeks ago, 'VimpelCom presented ten points regarding a ...
-
Morocco to launch 4G licence auction by end 2013
Morocco's telecoms watchdog Agence Nationale de Reglementation de Telecom (ANRT) has announced its plans to launch an auction for 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile licences by the end of 2013, state news ...
-
Remains of bombed cafe a constant reminder of extremist threat
It has been just over two years since suspected Islamic extremists planted a bomb at a cafe in Marrakesh's Djemaa el-Fna square, killing 17 people, including 14 tourists from Europe and ...
-
Khaya Moyo Blasts West Over Saharawi
ZANU-PF national chairman Cde Simon Khaya Moyo has blasted the Western countries for their double standards by not condemning Morocco's occupation of Saharawi but quick to attack other countries. Cde Khaya Moyo made the remarks when Saharawi Republic ambassador to Zimbabwe, Mr Sale Mohammed Cheij paid a courtesy call on him at the Zanu-PF headquarters today. He said it was now up to African ...
-
Algerian president taken to another French hospital
Officials said Tuesday that Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika left the French military hospital where he has been treated for nearly a month, and was transferred to another ...
-
Moroccans convicted for homosexuality get 4-month jail term
A Moroccan court on Tuesday convicted two men of homosexuality and public indecency, and sentenced each to four months in prison, in the latest case against gays in this North African ...
Morocco Focus
-
Morocco recieves aid as part of EU ties
Morocco has taken another step forward in its several years long pursuit of closer ties with the EU, receiving a vote of confidence from the continent’s organizing body in the form of aid, which will be used to pursue areas of development needed to modernize and reform the country.
Morocco is to receive Euro 580 million (roughly MAD 6 billion) from the European Union over the next four years, according to a joint agreement that was signed between Morocco and the EU recently, which it is hoped will provide the country with the means to further integrate itself with the European economy. Read more
News from around our Network
