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The World Trade Organization has chosen Marrakesh, its birth place, to celebrate its 20th anniversary through the organization this April 8-9 of a high-level conference on the topic “WTO 20 years: celebrating successes, meeting challenges to come.” The conference, to be attended by the WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo and some 40 African Trade Ministers, will […]
Morocco and the United States agree on the importance of the non-military aspects of the struggle against violent extremism and on social and political inclusion and economic opportunity as a compelling alternative to extremism. This was stated at a meeting held on Wednesday in Fez between King Mohammed VI and U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden who […]
Morocco has stressed the need to foster trust between the parties to the Middle East peace process and urged these parties to show the much needed sense of realism and spirit of compromise in order to push forward the peace process. The call was launched by Morocco’s King Mohammed VI during the opening of the […]
The Al-Quds Committee which is holding its 20th session in Marrakesh this January 17-18 under the presidency of Mohammed VI, King of Morocco and chairman of the Committee, is poised to send a strong message to Israel about its unlawful practices in the holy city, deemed by Muslims, Christians and Jews as a common heritage. […]
The city of Marrakesh hosted last week the signing of an international treaty that was hailed as historic since it is meant to enable hundreds of millions of blind or visually impaired people to have access to published materials. The signing of the treaty was no easy task. Negotiations with publishers and right holders took […]
The Middle East issue with its wars, crises, attempts, and death toll has been making the headlines for over 60 years, and last week in Marrakesh, the tragic stories of the Middle East were brought back to minds, if ever they can be forgotten, by the screening of the Attack by Lebanese Ziad Doueiri, during […]
Morocco is celebrating this week Algerian culture through the organization of many cultural events including plastic art, book and artifact exhibitions, plays performances, films screenings, music concerts and shows, poetry readings and lectures. A 114 strong Algerian cultural delegation, including musicians, choral singers, ballet dancers, writers and poets, is taking part in the week-long event […]
By 18 October 2012, a report that Salafis destroyed an 8,000-year-old petroglyph in Yakour Plain not far from Marrakesh quickly spread on Facebook and Twitter. The rock-drawing depicting the animistic divinity of the sun is one of thousands of stone carvings in the High Atlas and Anti-Atlas Mountains. Print and online newspapers repeated these rumors, […]
The Moroccan city of Marrakesh, known for its enchanting charm that attracts tourists from all over the world, was elected by the 19th World Travel Awards (WTA) as “Africa’s Leading Destination” for 2012. The WTA which has just unveiled the leading travel brands in Africa for 2012 pointed out that the ancient medina of Marrakech […]
Despite the unrest rocking several Arab countries, many foreign tourists are still heading to North Africa not only for holidays but also for plastic surgery which has become a big business namely in Tunisia, Egypt and Morocco. The pyramids of ancient Egypt, the antiquities & beaches of Tunisia and the mystical city Marrakesh (Morocco) are […]