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Moroccan 2016 economic growth weakens amid drought

Moroccan government on Monday cut its economic growth forecast for this year to less than 2 percent from 3 percent, as the North African kingdom experiences its worst drought in three decades. Morocco’s economy grew 4.7 percent year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2015, up from 2.2 percent in the similar 2014 period thanks to […]

Cinema, Another Facet of Morocco’s Soft Power

At a time when North African and Middle Eastern countries are increasingly becoming associated with violence and turmoil, Morocco stands out as a hub of culture and artistic creation. The steady organization every year of the Marrakech International Film Festival is an evidence of the aura and the status that the Kingdom has acquired as […]

Morocco: three men nabbed for attempting to smuggle in 12,000 ecstasy pills

Three men involved in an attempt to smuggle in 12,000 psychotropic tablets were arrested Friday in Casablanca highway, and the illicit substance was seized by the authorities. The pills were found in a truck coming from the Northern region of the country. The driver and two people accompanying him, including one wanted for drugs’ trafficking, […]