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A debate has been triggered in the Moroccan civil society over the need to amend laws incriminating consensual sex between adults after a journalist has been arrested on charges of premarital sex and abortion. The arrest of Hajar Raissouni angered human rights activists at the national and international level who demanded her immediate release in […]
The Moroccan Human Rights Council reacted to the arrest of a Moroccan journalist on charges of abortion and sex out-of-wedlock saying that the national laws should be amended to be compatible with the constitution. The arrest of Hajar Raissouni and her Sudanese fiancé as well as three other people for their alleged involvement in an […]
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is preparing to appoint a new personal envoy for the Sahara in replacement of German Horst Köhler, 76, who resigned from his post on May 22nd 2019 “for health reasons”. According to diplomatic sources cited by le360.ma web site, the UN chief has not so far submitted any name to […]
As pro-democracy protests continue to rattle the Algerian regime, Algeria marches ahead to an economic disaster as domestic energy consumptions nears levels of gas and oil production. Since 2007, Algeria’s consumption of oil and natural gas has risen by more than 50 percent while its oil production has fallen by 25 percent. With less oil […]
There is no exaggeration in saying that Morocco will play an increasingly important role in the world’s food security as the country sits on the globe’s largest phosphates deposits, key to the fertilizers’ industry. Modern agriculture has become more than ever dependent on phosphorus derived from phosphate rock, a non-renewable resource. Morocco as the country […]
Since taking the reign in Morocco, King Mohammed VI, who visited Algeria, has adopted an outstretched hand policy towards Algeria with the aim of building a strong regional union in the Maghreb at a world where regional grouping and integration are more important than ever. In past speeches, reinvigorating the Maghreb Union made up of […]
Moroccan foreign policy under the leadership of King Mohammed VI reflects the achievements made at home in the fields of infrastructure, energy as well as strengthening the rule of law and democracy bringing Morocco ever close to its traditional allies and to its new friends and partners. King Mohammed VI put Morocco on the path […]
After King Mohammed VI has called for speeding up advanced regionalization and administrative devolution in his latest speech, the Government is reportedly busy finalizing the master plans for the transfer of powers from the central to the regional administrations. According to local media, the Executive has reached the “final stages” in materializing the transfer of […]
King Mohammed VI has put Morocco on track of social and economic development with the first twenty years of projects resulting in improved infrastructure but much remains to be done as the monarch himself stressed in his two recent speeches putting the country in a new trajectory of reforms to reduce disparities and improve public […]
King Mohammed VI drew up on Tuesday the broad lines of Morocco’s new development model, which will be the driving force of inclusive growth, social equity and sustainable development. In his speech to the Nation marking the 66th anniversary of the Revolution of the King and the People, the Monarch shed more light on […]