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After bitter debate within the Security Council, and strong pressures from France to avoid any kind of progress in the resolution of the conflict in Western Sahara, the member states of this "non-democratic" international body adopted a new resolution completely void of any sense or reason. The Security Council's resolution 2044 adopted Tuesday 24 of April ...

Fes, Morocco –  Saturday's final at the $220,000 Moroccan Grand Prix tennis event will pit Spanish veteran Laura Pous-Tio against Dutch newcomer Kiki Bertens. Pous-Tio fought her way past French lucky-loser Mathilde Johansson 6-1, 2-6, 7-5, while the 20-year-old qualifier Bertens upset fifth-seeded two-time Fes runner-up Simona Halep 6-3, 6-4 on the red clay at Royal ...

Morocco's Mawazine music festival announced Thursday that singer and actress Jane Birkin has cancelled her scheduled appearance in May for health reasons. "It is with regret that the Mawazine Rhythms of the World Festival informs that the Jane Birkin concert initially scheduled for May 22 in Rabat is cancelled due to the artist's health," the festival ...

Allegedly raped at knife point by a man nearly 10 years older, she had committed suicide after being forced to marry her rapist to protect him from prosecution, under a law designed to safeguard female, and family, honor. Ms. Filali’s death might have been the end of the story. Instead, it has galvanized women’s rights activists ...

The Aquaculture Technology Centre of Andalusia (Ctaqua) coordinated the visit of a group of Moroccan delegates from the fisheries-aquaculture sector to Cadiz, interested in the local aquaculture potential. The cooperation mission was joined by representatives of the National Agency for Development of Aquaculture in Morocco (L'Anda), of the joint aquaculture venture of the Spanish-Moroccan firm Aquapole ...

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — A Moroccan court denied bail on Wednesday to a rapper charged with attacking the image of the security services in a song about police corruption. Mouad Belghouat was arrested March 29 after Morocco's National Security agency filed a suit against him, and he is now being tried for insulting state employees and ...

Morocco is considering trimming economic growth projections for this year because bad weather has hit its key agriculture sector, government officials said on Tuesday. Projected gross domestic product (GDP) growth could be cut to 3.5 percent from a budgeted 4.2 percent. The officials asked not to be identified because Finance and Economy Minister Nizar Baraka plans to ...

Moroccan Foreign Minister Saad Dine El Otmani said he was not only filled with sadness and deep pain after meeting survivors of the March 11, 2011, disasters in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, last week, but was also moved by their courage to move forward and rebuild their devastated region. Hit with a triple disaster — the earthquake, ...

Sierra Leone’s ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the Kingdom of Morocco Her Excellency Khadijatu Bassir, was among three other African diplomats who presented their letters of credence to the authorities of the North African country on 1st March 2012 in Rabat. During her presentation, Ambassador Bassir thanked the Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Saad ...

DuPont, a global science and engineering company, has opened two new offices in Casablanca and Tangier, critical industrial poles in Morocco, aiming to be closer to local customers. Morocco’s dynamic and solid economic environment and its preference for new technologies and practices that achieve sustainable development make it a perfect market for DuPont to consolidate its ...