UN Report Expresses Concern Over Protection of Vulnerable Children in Morocco
Marrakech- A new report released by the Committee of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child notes that many Moroccan children are deprived of a family environment. In particular, the committee is...
View ArticleExclusive Interview with the President of the North Africa International...
Taroudant, Morocco - The North Africa International Model United Nations organized an international conference in the faculty of letter and human sciences in Marrakesh, from September 25 to 26, 2014,...
View ArticleWill Beheading of French Hostage by ISIS Affect Morocco’s Tourism?
Marrakech - The beheading of the French hostage Hervé Gourdel in Algeria in the notoriously dangerous terrorist area of Kabilye has caused a drop in tourist bookings according to the President of the...
View ArticleUN Committee Calls on Morocco to Control Spread of Private Education
Marrakech - The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child issued its report on Moroccan education on 19 September. The Committee welcomed the increase in school enrollment and the efforts to increase...
View ArticleGeneral Information about Diversity Visa Program
Rabat - Morocco World News plans to publish a series of articles about the DV Lottery program to highlight all the aspects that applicants and DV Lottery Visa winners should know. The articles will...
View ArticleMarrakesh Square Among 10 Best Night Markets in the World
Taroudant, Morocco- Adioso featured Jamaa el Fna square in Marrakesh among the 10 best places around the world for “feasting, shopping and people watching to your heart's delight.” Ranked third most...
View ArticleThe Gap Between Theory and Practice in Moroccan Higher Education
By Karim El-Hiani Rabat - One of the salient criteria of any country’s development is the extent to which its scientific studies flourish and are developed. The fact that universities provide a fertile...
View ArticleRaja Casablanca Fans Raise Slogans Supporting ISIS
By Youssfi Yassir Rabat- A video posted on Facebook and YouTube by fans of the football club Raja of Casablanca contains slogans supporting the terrorist group the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria...
View ArticleGeorge Clooney and Amal Amaluddin Bring Marrakech to the Limelight
Marrakech- Marrakech has become a popular destination for the world’s stars, celebrities, and fashion aficionados. The pink city has a backdrop of the Atlas Mountains and romantic gardens like the...
View ArticleList of Best Food You Can Buy for 5 Dirhams in Morocco
Rabat - Five Dirhams (Moroccan currency) is worth less than a euro or a dollar. In my country, Colombia, it is equivalent to a coin of 200 pesos that can’t even buy a lollipop. But in the Medinas of...
View ArticleReading between the lines of King Mohammed VI’s Speech at the UN
New York- The Moroccan people and international observers were somehow taken aback by the tone of King Mohammed VI’s speech at the general debate of the 69th session of the United Nations General...
View ArticleForeign Movies Shot in Morocco Generate $100 Million in 2014
Rabat- The film industry in Morocco has, thus far, generated $100 million this year, four times more than the first nine months of 2013. According to figures from the Moroccan Cinema Centre,...
View ArticleKarim Bellarabi Turns His Back to Morocco, Likely to Play for Germany
Rabat- In a scenario similar to that of Barcelona’s strikers Mounir Haddadi, it seems that Morocco is on its way to lose another great player. According to German newspaper, DW, Morocco-German player...
View ArticleAlgeria in the Eye of the Storm: ISIS Terrorism and Presidential Race
Rabat - Algeria is currently facing some major security concerns. French tourist Hervé Gourdel was recently abducted and decapitated in the Kabylie area by a new local offshoot of the Islamic State of...
View ArticleMorocco’s Minister Mbarka Bouaïda Must Speak on Catalan Independence Referendum
Washington, DC — As the debate over the future of Catalonia rages on in Spain, the rest of the world is standing idle letting a serious constitutional predicament escalates into a European crisis. If...
View ArticleMorocco Tops Africa’s most visited countries
Taroudant, Morocco - Morocco comes on the top of the Africa’s most visited countries last year, according to the rankings announced this week by the World Tourism Organization. With 55.7 million...
View ArticleMoroccan Pleads Guilty for Sexually Abusing American Woman on RAM Flight
New York: Thami Drissi, a Moroccan engineer, pleaded guilty for sexually abusing an American woman while traveling on a Casablanca-New York flight last August. According to the New York based Daily...
View ArticleSweden to Be Fourth EU Member to Recognize State of Palestine
New York- The Center-left Swedish government said on Friday that it will recognize the State of Palestine to become the fourth European Union country to have done so after Poland, Hungary and Slovakia....
View ArticleISIS Claims Beheading of British Hostage
Rabat- The so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) released a video on Friday in it which it claims that it has beheaded a second British man, Alan Hanning, who had been held hostage in Syria...
View ArticleKarim Belarabi Chooses to Play for Mannschaft
Berlin - Moroccan Karim Belarabi, who has been called up by Germany's manager Joachim Löw, has chosen to play for Germany. The 21-year-old Bayer Leverkusen striker was born in Berlin to a Moroccan...
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