Morocco
May 13, 2000
Security forces used strong-arm tactics Friday to disperse a protest by several hundred Moroccan engineers in front of the country's finance and agric
May 10, 2000
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar held talks Tuesday with Moroccan king Mohammed VI in the Moroccan port city of Tangier on issues of mutual int
May 4, 2000
Morocco's government said Wednesday it would set up a body including Muslim scholars to seek compromise on a controversial plan to give more rights to
May 3, 2000
Khalid Khannouchi who was born in Morocco was sworn in to become a US citizen in Houston Tuesday just in time to compete at the US Olympic men's m
May 1, 2000
The Moroccan government recently released its semi-annual budget to the parliament for the second half of the current year, Al-Hayat newspaper reported. The new budget, presented by the Prime Minister
April 29, 2000
Morocco and Mauritania have agreed to form a joint commission at the premiership level to draw up framework of bilateral cooperation and implement pro
April 28, 2000
The Moroccan athlete, Khalid Khannouchi is seeking to obtain American citizenship, as it will enable him to compete in US Olympic men's marathon, whic
April 27, 2000
Mauritanian President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya arrived in Morocco on Wednesday for talks expected to focus on the Western Sahara dispute and effort
April 25, 2000
Maroc Telecom plans to introduce a prepaid telephone card in early May, the Moroccan Daily L'Economiste reported last week. The new phone card, 'Kalimat,' will be compatible for use on regular telph
April 24, 2000
The Moroccan Customs and Indirect Taxes Administration decided last week to ease administrative procedures for Moroccan companies' export activities. Nonetheless, the companies must meet several requ
April 19, 2000
Falcon Electronics, the exclusive retailer of Samsung products in Morocco, disclosed that it holds a 10% market share, but it is not yet satisfied. Falcon has set its sights on commanding a 30% mark
April 17, 2000
Spain's 6th seeded Fernando Vicente won Casablanca's title at a 350,000 dollars ATP tennis tournament, defeating France's Sebastien Grosjean 6-4, 4
A panel set up upon decree by Moroccan King Mohammad VI decided to distribute MD40m to families of detention and disappearance victims, MBC Radi
April 15, 2000
World marathon record holder Khalid Khannouchi - his dreams of Olympic glory apparently wrecked by bureaucratic red tape - has instead set his sigh
April 13, 2000
There exists little doubt that Moroccan tennis players Younes El Aynaoui, Karim Alami and Hicham Arazi all circled April 10-16 on their calendars. The