A Moroccan Girl

      Morocco’s new prime minister-designate formed a governing coalition, ending a five-month impasse that has paralyzed decision-making and strained the economy.          After barely a week in office, Saaddine El-Otmani of the moderate Islamist Justice and Development Party told reporters late Saturday that he will lead a coalition of six parties including partners his predecessor, Abdelilah Benkirane, had refused to include. High on...

  Saad-Eddine El Othmani, a former foreign minister from the Islamist PJD party, tasked to form a new government. Morocco's king on Friday appointed a new prime minister to end a political deadlock that left the North African country without a government for five months, the royal court said. King Mohammed VI named Saad-Eddine El Othmani, a former foreign minister who belongs to...

Oil companies analyst Malcom Graham Wood says it is an exciting time for Sound Energy. Sound Energy PLC (LON:SOU) should now have got into the target zone for the high impact TE-8 well in Morocco, according to Malcolm Graham Wood, who says it shouldn’t take long to have a ‘sniff around’ to find out whether the gas is present. On Friday, the company told investors that it was...

This week’s Wiki Leaks revelations, which showed that the CIA can compromise a huge range of devices, shouldn’t send you into paroxysms of fear over your smartphone. It should, though, be a solid reminder that one of the best ways to keep yourself safe from hackers is also one of the simplest: Update your gear. What allows hackers access to your devices, after all,...

 Morocco's king Mohammed VI called on Saturday on civil society to double efforts to raise awareness among young people and inform them of the dangers of fanaticism and reclusion. Civil society actors must counter the campaign staged by terrorists and by those using terrorist acts to point fingers at Islam and Muslims, the king said in a message on the occasion of the...

          The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved today a US$150 million financing in support of the Moroccan government’s goal of modernizing its national identification system and provide financing to promote innovative startups and job creation. With an aim of enhancing social and economic inclusion, the two operations will enable better identification of individuals for better targeting of social...

The gender wage gap in Morocco is still well and alive. Moroccan women earn about 17 percent less than men, a number than has been revealed in a study conducted by the Moroccan Directorate of Financial Studies and Forecasting (DEPF), in a collaboration with the Ministry of Economy and Finance and the OCP Policy Center. Despite the decline in wage gaps between the sexes in both...

Morocco's prime minister has called on the former partnering parties for their final answer regarding the participation in the future government, local media reported on Friday. The prime minister, Abdelilah Benkirane, announced his last call to the two parties in the former coalition, the liberal National Rally of Independents (RNI) and the nationalist Popular Movement (MP), in a statement to the press following...

 In 2020, the city of Khouribga will acquire a major project: the largest phosphate pretreatment facility in the world. Located in Oulad Farès, this gigantic project, realized by the OCP group, will require an investment MAD 3.5 billion. The project will involve the development of a stock of raw phosphate storage and retrieval, three washing lines, flotation and grinding workshops, a decanter for...

Forty years ago, the United States senate undertook the near-impossible task of reviewing all existing evidence on nutrition in order to recommend a diet for optimal health. The result was a set of dietary recommendations that demonized fat, cholesterol and salt, among other nutrients, while trumpeting the benefits of grains. These ‘facts’ became gospel truth for dieters, not just in the US but...

Three months after the launch of a second operation to regularize the status of illegal migrants in Morocco, over 18,000 people have submitted requests to benefit from this process. Until March 8, some 18,281 migrants have submitted requests to obtain regular status in the country, the minister of Moroccan Expatriates and Migration Affairs Anis Birou said during a meeting on migration here on...

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The Moroccan police have arrested a suspect in the murder of lawmaker Abdellatif Mirdas in front of his home in the city of Casablanca. Mirdas, 53, Member of Parliament for the liberal Constitutional Union Party, was shot three times in his car in the well-off southern district of Californie on Tuesday night, according to a police statement carried by MAP state news agency. Hit in the...

Princess Lalla Meryem, Chairwoman of the National Union for Moroccan Women (UNFM), chaired a ceremony to celebrate International Women’s Day, on Wednesday. During the event, titled “Moroccan Women Between the Challenges of economic Empowerment and Social Security Obstacles,” a documentary on UNFM’s different activities and achievements was screened. A presentation on joint activities by African countries and the National Union for Moroccan Women...

 the Moroccan police arrested on Thursday two people with links to the Islamic State (IS) group in the city of Casablanca, the Interior ministry said in a statement According to the statement, the suspects planned to carry out terrorist operations in Morocco and had begun to acquire devices used in making explosives. This operation has allowed the seizure of copper cables, a thermometer,...

The National School of Applied Sciences (ENSA)in Khouribga ,Morocco organized the 6th edition of the open source days under the theme: "Open innovation: A collective contribution to the conception of frugal solutions." begging with the director of Ensa Mr. Adib Jennan delivering  his word as an opening to the event.  Mr. Adib Jennan  (by indepth-mag.com) Consequently, the Vice-President of the university Hassan 1er Pr. Ahmed Fahli Hosted the...