Tourist numbers of 7.4 million visitors to Morocco in 2006, puts the country well on the way to reaching its goal of ten million by 2010. This is a 13% increase over 2006 showing that the country’s long term strategy is paying off. Visitor numbers are the highest they have been in forty years which [...]
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United Nations Ad Hoc committee reviewed Morocco’s reports on its implementation of the Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. Morocco’s delegation pointed out its efforts it has made for elimination of gender based differences at the meeting in Geneva.. Women in Morocco have made significant advances in terms of equality in [...]
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Morocco TV will soon have a new channel that will entirely be “Amazigh.” Finalizing of the program specifications is being done to ensure that the national channel will be able to begin operations soon. Communications Minister, Khalid Naciri, noted that the channel will air a range of general interest programs. Such a channel has been [...]
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Morocco lost to Guinea, 3-2 in their second game of the African Cup of Nations tournament. Morocco’s chances of getting to the next round are now in jeopardy.
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Morocco’s Atlas Lions roared loudly on Monday by inflicting a 5-1 loss on Nambia in their opening African Nations Cup game. Goals from Tarik Sektioui and Moncef Zerka put the Lions ahead of Ghana, to the top of Group A. Morocco soccer fans are more supportive than ever this season.
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Park Plaza Hotels Corporation recently announced the arrival of two new hotels in Qatar and Morocco. These luxury hotels will fall under the management direction of Global V Hospitality Inc. This company is the primary management office for Park Plaza Hotel divisions in Morocco, Egypt and the Gulf States.
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Morocco wants advanced status with the EU. Europe supports Morocco’s EU partnership aspirations. Morocco says that the status will help to integrate the two economies and broaden the access to the community’s markets. High ranking European Union representatives and European foreign ministers arrived in Rabat on Monday to discuss the issue. The European dignitaries underlined [...]
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Moroccan Health Minister, Yasmina Baddou announced a new strategy to bring reforms to the health care sector in Morocco. The plan set to run from 2008 to 2012 will have two basic priorities. First, it is making treatment accessible to the lesser privileged of Morocco’s citizens and, secondly, bringing down the costs of health care [...]
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Construction is set to begin on a railway tunnel running underneath the Gibraltar Strait that will connect Morocco and Spain. This Morocco tunnel project has been scheduled for construction for quite some time now. In the 1980′s, two teams from both regions met to begin talks about how and where to get the project started. [...]
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It is time for Morocco‘s team to demonstrate its many talents according to Coach Henri Michel. Atlas Lions will have to play its next two games without striker Soufiane Alloudi. Alloudi suffered a knee injury in Morocco’s opening game against Namibia. He will not play until the second round. Coach Henri Michel regrets that the [...]
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