Rabat, Morocco News

Morocco will cut subsidy spending by 20 percent to 42 billion dirhams or less in 2013 - depending on international commodities prices, the general affairs minister said on Friday, as an IMF delegation audits the country's finances.

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, Joy Ngozi Ezeilo, will visit Morocco* from 17 to 21 June 2013 to examine the phenomenon of trafficking and assess the responses taken to combat human trafficking.

On a recent Saturday in May, as dusk shaded into night in this desert city, more than a thousand women, men, and children poured into the streets.

WAM RABAT, Jun 12th, 2013 -- H. H. Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, Supreme Chairwoman of the Family Development Foundation, Chairwoman of the UAE General Women's Union and Chairwoman of The Supreme Council For Motherhood ''&'' Childhood and HRH Princess Lalla Salma, Chairwoman of the Lalla Salma Foundation for cancer treatment and prevention and wife ... (more)

Tunisian singer Lotfi Bouchnak gestures as he answers questions during an interview with AFP as part of the 12th edition of the music festival Mawazine on May 31, 2013, in Rabat, Morocco.

H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser witnessing the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between Silatech CEO Tarik M Yousef and the Moroccan Minister of Tourism, Lahcen Haddad, to support SMEs, promote career guidance and vocational training, and boost the Moroccan microfinance sector.

Saudi Arabia's private sector plans to open a direct maritime transportation route between the Gulf country and Morocco in North Africa to promote trade exchanges, Al Sharq Al Awsat newspaper reported on Sunday.

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) MANAMA: Bahrain telecom watchdog delivered a major presentation on the Arab retail price benchmarking study during a meeting of the Arab Regulators' Network in Rabat, Morocco.

WAM Rabat, 7th June 2013 - Prime Minister of Morocco Abdelilah Benkirane received today President of the Arab Parliament Ahmed Mohammed Al Jarwan, who is currently visiting Rabat to attend a regional symposium on the citizen and parliament.

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RABAT: Some 200 members of Morocco's pro-reform February 20 protest movement gathered outside the justice ministry in Rabat yesterday to demand the release of political prisoners.

Sweet child: 'Maternal and child mortality are issues that should be in everybody's interest.

Isaac Isinde, Robert Sentongo and Robert Odongkara of Ethiopian side St George and Etoile du Sahel's Emma Okwi over the weekend helped their clubs advance to the lucrative CAF Confederations Cup group stage.

The 12th edition of the week-long Mawazine festival ended on Saturday . A record number of 2.5 million spectators of all generations attended this year's event, organisers said.

Expatriate Christians who ran an orphanage in Morocco until they were deported on charges of proselytism said last week they will take their fight to be reunited with the children to the Supreme Court if necessary.

Berber activists on Tuesday hailed a Moroccan minister's decision to speak Amazigh in parliament, saying it was the first time their indigenous tongue which is recognised as an official language in the new constitution has been used there.

Enrique Iglesias proves once again that he is the most famous latin singer-songwriter around the world.

Anti-government protesters responsible for Turkey's worst riots in years are "arm-in-arm with terrorism", Prime Minister Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said, in a defiant response to four days of unrest in dozens of cities across the country.

There has been a lot of new information that came out concerning the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus outbreak, formerly novel coronavirus during the course of the past week.

Via ProMED-mail :1st recorded nCoV case in a UAE citizen in Morocco. Note the moderator's comments at the end of the excerpt.