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Morocco World News
April 28, 2018
The automobile industry is considered one of the most promising and dynamic sectors in Morocco, greatly increasing Moroccan exports through the help of its human, material, and technical ... In 2015, France's PSA Peugeot Citroen announced that it will open a manufacturing plant in the city of Kenitra.
Morocco World News
April 28, 2018
The city's branch of the nationwide Moroccan Association of Teachers of English (MATE) organized and will oversee the conference, in conjunction with the regional academy of education and training, Laayoune Saqya Lhamra. Speaking to Morocco World News, the head of the conference's academicÃâà...
Morocco World News
April 28, 2018
For the next seven weeks, the bidding nations – Morocco, on one hand, and a tripartite bid from Canada, Mexico and the United States on the other – will be scouring the world looking for votes from FIFA's member ... A dar shabab (youth center) is a key feature of most Moroccan towns and many big cities.
Middle East Monitor
April 28, 2018
Moroccan security services “did not respect the law” when dealing with and dispersing protesters in the mining town of Jerada, a human right report said ... of the unlicensed coal mines in the city at the end of December and they were renewed in February when a third worker died in similar circumstances.
Newsbug.info
April 26, 2018
The Morocco 5K 10K Hustle is part of a fun, four-day festival weekend in Morocco. The 2018 Morocco Beaver Fest will include town wide garage sales; volleyball, basketball, ga-ga ball, bowling and Texas Hold'em tournaments; archery, golf shot, football, fishing, putting, homerun derby contests; parade;Ãâà...
Stuff.co.nz
April 22, 2018
Twenty-four hours ago, I was enjoying Wellington's Indian summer; now I'm in a battered Fiat in Morocco's largest city, swaddled in a coat and scarf, trying to ignore the locals' indifference to road rules and ... Every Moroccan city has two bits – a 'nouvelle ville' (new city) and a casbah/medina (old city).
Insidethegames.biz
April 22, 2018
The FIFA Evaluation Task Force visited five cities this week "and noticed some deviations from the initial planned programme," admitted Moulay Hafid Elalamy, President of the Morocco 2026 bid. They "asked questions about reliability of accommodation projections...and the plans for the transformation ofÃâà...
Tempo.co
April 22, 2018
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Indonesia`s capital city governor of Jakarta, Anies Baswedan visited Morocco and Turkey this week, as his first overseas visit after being inaugurated as the governor. Anies Baswedan along with Sandiaga Uno in October 2017, were inaugurated as the governor and vice governorÃâà...
Morocco World News
April 22, 2018
Rabat – The city of Rabat convened Dutch Foreign Affairs Minister Stef Blok and Moroccan officials, including Head of Government Saad Eddine El Othmani. During the meeting, both Morocco and Netherlands expressed their willingness to bolster bilateral ties and cooperation on Friday. Having arrived inÃâà...
Winston-Salem Journal
April 20, 2018
It wound through a small village where the trees rang with the songs of chaffinches and Eurasian blackbirds. The latter are related to our robin, not our blackbirds, and look like American robins that have been painted black, its size, shape, bill and behavior so like our familiar bird of suburban lawns.
Vulture
April 12, 2018
Then she tells a story to Tinsley that is just perfect in its zany Countessness: Her husband was in Morocco doing the Rally of Morocco, as one does, and she showed up to surprise him dressed as a “Moroccan princess.” Okay, so this isn't a new thing then. Money can't buy you class, but it apparently can buyÃâà...
Morocco World News
April 12, 2018
The contest is expected to produce “a solar village” which will subsequently be presented to the public. ... that this African edition seeks to valorize local resources, “reinforce continental capabilities” in the relevant sectors, and “propose models for sustainable and green housing for 'the cities of tomorrow.'”.
Morocco World News
April 12, 2018
Rabat- A one-day art exhibit in the US city of Philadelphia will celebrate artwork from Morocco and other countries infamously deemed “shitholes” by the US President Donald Trump. Launched by Le Chapeau Project, this gallery will feature contemporary artists from more than 15 countries, such as Haiti,Ãâà...
Sputnik International
April 12, 2018
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Moroccan Embassy in Russia will organize direct flights from Casablanca and set up a mobile consulate in the cities where the country's national football team will play during the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Moroccan Ambassador to Moscow Abdelkader Lecheheb told Sputnik onÃâà...
The Independent
April 12, 2018
A charming coastal town, with none of the chaos that you'll find in busier Moroccan cities, Essaouira has long been known for its surfing culture and the quality of its seafood restaurants. Today, it's also famous ... At Essaouira's port lives possibly the happiest cat colony in Morocco. Well fed and completelyÃâà...
Morocco World News
April 12, 2018
Al Massira, second largest dam in Morocco after Al Wahda, supplies water to the agricultural sector, which absorbs 33 percent of the labor force, in the Doukkala area, Casablanca-Settat region, and other cities. “While the reservoir's levels keep decreasing, demand for its water keeps increasing,” stated theÃâà...
The Guardian
April 11, 2018
Shrinking reservoirs in Morocco, India, Iraq and Spain could spark the next “day zero” water crisis, according to the developers of a satellite early warning system for the world's 500,000 dams. Cape Town recently grabbed global headlines by launching a countdown to the day when taps would be cut off toÃâà...
Morocco World News
April 4, 2018
Rabat- The Judicial Police Division (BNPJ) has arrested ten members of a criminal network operating in several Moroccan cities including Rabat, Meknes, Fez, and Boufekrane. The General Directorate for National Security (DGSN) released a report on Wednesday, stating that the criminal network wasÃâà...
Morocco World News
March 31, 2018
Rabat – Although the public fuss about immigration in Morocco generally foregrounds sub-Saharan migrants, a recent survey by the High Commissioner for Planning (HCP) has found that there are actually more European migrants in Moroccan workplaces. The survey was conducted earlier this month andÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
March 31, 2018
The basic tenor of many of the reactions is that Moroccan government and society are not doing enough to combat sexual violence. On several occasions the government has in fact responded to massive public pressure following instances of sexual violence. (Both suspects in the current case have beenÃâà...
The Indian Express
March 31, 2018
Essaouira, the “Wind City of Africa,” by the Atlantic coast — a colonial walled city with its cafes, craftsmen, street performers, ladies preparing the exotic Moroccon (argan) oil and spice scented lanes — is the most atmospheric of all Moroccan towns we visited. Chefs of the fish restaurants hold out liveÃâà...
TravelPulse
March 30, 2018
Further underscoring the company's focus on the Moroccan market, in April, Hilton opened a development office in the city of Casablanca to coordinate expansion of its North African presence, according to Hotel Management. The company's first hotel in the region was the Hilton Garden Inn CasablancaÃâà...
Hotel Management
March 29, 2018
Hilton has signed a deal with Wessal Capital to open a new hotel in the Moroccan capital city of Rabat. When it opens in 2022, the 150-room Hilton Rabat will be part of the city's Wessal Bouregreg project. The Wessal Bouregreg master development has a range of residential, entertainment and culturalÃâà...
BusinessGhana
March 28, 2018
Hilton (NYSE:HLT) (http://HiltonWorldwide.com) will once again be welcoming guests to the Moroccan capital city of Rabat from 2022 after a landmark deal was signed with Wessal Capital. At a ceremony in Dubai, a management agreement for a 150 room Hilton Rabat to form part of the city's WessalÃâà...
The Guardian (blog)
March 28, 2018
There also appears to be fewer women writing about Tangier – my list features an almost exclusively male perspective of the city. There are, in fact, female Moroccan writers: Fatema Mernissi, an Arab Islamic feminist whose most well-known work was Beyond the Veil; Leila Abouzeid, whose novella Year ofÃâà...
Tri-City Herald
March 27, 2018
The head of Morocco's counterterrorism agency said Tuesday that France should have alerted his country about the extremist behavior of the French-Moroccan gunman who carried out a deadly supermarket attack in southern France. While French authorities had monitored Radouane Lakdim before hisÃâà...
Africa Times
March 27, 2018
Morocco's bid to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup made quite an impression Monday when the international football organization made the “bid books” publicly available – and it wasn't just because of King Mohammed VI's appeal on the basis of traditional Moroccan hospitality in a new era of modernity.
SaharaReporters.com
March 27, 2018
I was quite impressed to see how Morocco with its colour-coded cities remains very much an organized, efficient and a comparatively competitive country. The trip this time began ... to trade with Morocco. Many Nigerian students are also now going to school in Moroccan universities and technical colleges.
Architectural Digest
March 27, 2018
Here, Frank de Biasi, a longtime lover of Morocco, invites us along for a day of shopping. I first went to Morocco on spring break in 1984. ... Tangier is a difficult city—not easy to get to, not easy to get by in—but the energy created by the juncture of two great continents split by the Straits of Gibraltar isÃâà...
The Conversation CA
March 27, 2018
Moroccan municipalities are under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Interior that approves municipal council decisions. ... Here's how it works in Morocco, where the greatest degree of decentralization in the region has occurred: The minister of the interior is no longer responsible for actually reviewingÃâà...
NL Times
March 27, 2018
Dutch-Moroccan man Mahmoud El Hajaji was arrested in the Moroccan city of Tangier on Friday for having "suspicious books" with him. He was released again on Saturday afternoon after seven hours of interrogation, NOS reports. El Hajaji was in Morocco to visit his sick father. He was arrested whileÃâà...
The Independent
March 27, 2018
Located in the foothills of the Middle Atlas mountains, it ranks among Morocco's best preserved cities, complete with dusty streets, faded palaces and ... Marrakech may garner more pages in the style magazines but Fez, Morocco's second city, is historically the centre of learning in the Arab world – and hasÃâà...
NPR
March 26, 2018
Set in the 1950s during the waning days of French rule in Morocco, the plot centers around a vulnerable heiress, her ne'er-do-well husband and an old ... you react like Alice does, where she finds it essentially too overwhelming and too chaotic and tries to kind of close the door between herself and the city.
Xinhua
March 25, 2018
During a ceremony held at the BOA's headquarters in the Moroccan city of Casablanca, the MoU was signed between Liu Xin, head of CDB's Zhejiang branch, and Brahim Benjelloun Touimi, chairman of the BOA Group, the financial news site Medias24.com reported. This deal aims to boost joint venturesÃâà...
Global Times
March 25, 2018
People ride camels in Merzouga, Morocco, on March 24, 2018. Tourists came to visit the small village of Merzouga for its proximity to Erg Chebbi, a Saharan erg.Photo:XinhuaÃâà...
Xinhua
March 25, 2018
RABAT, March 24 (Xinhua) -- The 24th edition of the International Mediterranean Film Festival opened on Saturday in Morocco's northern city of Tetouan. ... The 33-year-old festival features also a round table on the challenges facing the Moroccan cinema, a colloquium on Cinema and Liberties and aÃâà...
Business Standard
March 25, 2018
As more than 1,000 delegates from over 100 countries, including several from the African continent, discussed crucial issues ranging from maritime to food security and energy in this city in the Moroccan Sahara, the underlying factor was Morocco's emergence as a gateway for the world to look atÃâà...
Africa.com
March 25, 2018
Morocco's candidacy for the organisation of the 2026 World Cup was officially presented in March. All of the ... Despite the stiff competition, Morocco's bid has several strengths, and this time more than any other time before, the Moroccan effort is a strong one and has all the ... cities to host the world cupÃâà...
The Sun
March 24, 2018
The gardens in this magical Moroccan city were once owned by the late French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent. Today they ... Riotous colour was a theme of our short city break, for which we were based at the Sofitel Marrakech Palais Imperial Hotel, just a 15-minute walk from Marrakech's Old Town.
NJ.com
March 23, 2018
Nearly 16 years after fleeing to Morocco after he was indicted in connection with a $2.8 million bank fraud, a now 49-year-old man is in federal custody. Steven Nacim agreed to surrender to the FBI on Friday morning after flying back to the U.S. and is set to appear in federal court in the city this afternoon,Ãâà...
Hospitality Net
March 23, 2018
Although there are no listed REITs on the Moroccan stock exchange as of yet, the merger of VLV and Petra in 2017 resulted in the creation of a new commercial real estate platform comprising of 27 assets (with a total GLA of more than 215,000 sq m) across 15 cities in Morocco. Grit real estate incomeÃâà...
The Local France
March 23, 2018
French security and police gather outside the Super U supermarket in the town of Trebes. ... Security forces killed the gunman -- believed to be a Moroccan who was on a watchlist of suspected Islamic extremists -- after he carried out three separate attacks in the medieval town of Carcassonne and nearbyÃâà...
The Independent
March 23, 2018
... the extraordinary life of Yves Saint Laurent. The designer – who not only inspired generations of style icons but also empowered a whole wave of women – died in 2008, but a newly opened museum in the Moroccan city keeps his memory alive by paying tribute to his achievements in the most vibrant andÃâà...
Forbes Middle East
March 22, 2018
The real estate developers Vecteur Label Vie (VLV), a subsidiary of the Label'Vie and Petra Group merged in 2017 to create a joint venture with a portfolio of 27 real estate assets in 15 Moroccan cities. Morocco's economy is expected to record real growth of 4% in 2018, according to JLL. The growth will beÃâà...
Xinhua
March 22, 2018
RABAT, March 22 (Xinhua) -- U.S. auto company Nexteer launched Thursday the construction of its first plant in Africa in the Moroccan city of Kenitra. Spanning over 18,000 square meters, the factory, which will employ some 500 workers, is expected to begin production in 2019. The facility will initially beÃâà...
Bleacher Report
March 22, 2018
The fallout from that moment has directly and indirectly touched thousands of people and led to numerous corruption scandals, trials in a New York city courthouse, political intrigues at the highest levels in the Middle East, resignations and even jail time. The sheer weight of scandal eventually led to Blatter's removal asÃâà...
Middle East Eye
March 21, 2018
Jerada is everything you would expect of the impoverished Moroccan towns of the Middle Atlas, the arid south, and the nearby Rif. The only difference is the presence of an impressive array of local and national police on every street corner in town. “It's like being in Iraq!” Larbi said, with his booming voiceÃâà...
GQ Magazine
March 21, 2018
The city is lively and filled with souks (markets), shisha bars, beautiful museums (hit up YSL's), and glorious hotels (try Villa des Orangers). After a few days of exploring the many wonders of the city, it's time to head south. Within minutes of skipping town, you'll feel a new sense of calm: the roads are clear,Ãâà...
Morocco World News
March 19, 2018
During this cultural event, organized by Dayem and Luxor Governor Mohamed Badr, the Standing Committee on Arab Culture honored Oujda with the title “Arab Cultural Capital,” a title passed to different cities in the Arab world every year. Dayem also handed off the “Arab Cultural Flame” prize to Laaraj,Ãâà...
Business Standard
March 19, 2018
At the Crans Montana Forum (CMF) conference in this Western Sahara city of Dakhla, women may not outnumber men, but they marked their presence in ... event," a young woman, who is pursuing a course in tourism management in Morocco, who did not wish to be named, said at the CMF village venue.
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