A cyclist from Wimbledon is to ride from the top of Morocco back to London with an old school friend. Mark Hooley, 32, will be joined by friend Mark Timms, 33, on the charity ride. The route will take them the length of two of Europe's biggest countries and is expected to take ...

Geneva/Cairo - Morocco is taking steps to join 78 other nations whose governments have created National Platforms for Disaster Risk Reduction to support policies for building resilience to disasters. "The future National Platform will help the work of all sectors to converg ...

A chunky meteorite which fell to earth in a shower of stones after witnesses reported two sonic booms and a fireball blazing above the sky in Morocco last year has been bought by the Natural History Museum. The “incredibly rare” piece is expected to yield revelations ...

According to the Royal Centre for Research and Islamic Studies in Jordan, Morocco’s King Mohammed VI is the second most influential figure in the Muslim world in 2011, after King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. The Turkish Prime Recep Tayyip Erdogan is number three on the list o ...

Rabat - HM King Mohammed VI, accompanied by HRH Crown Prince Moulay El Hassan and HRH Princess Lalla Salma, presided,on Saturday, over the first entry into school of HRH Princess Lalla Khadija at the Princely school of the Royal Palace in Rabat. On this occasion, HM the King tou ...

London - Morocco has been awarded Morocco awarded the African Country of the Future 2011/12 by the FDI Intelligence, a division of the prestigious British press group The Financial Times, specializing in foreign direct investment (FDI). Morocco, improves its ranking, as it has m ...

Rabat - Unemployment rate in Morocco during the second quarter of 2011 rose by 0.5 points to stand at 8.7%, the high commission for planning (HCP) said. The number of unemployed people has increased by 66,000 compared to the same period last year, the HCP said in a report on the ...

The Marrakech-Menara airport was ranked the second best regional airport in Africa in 2011 by the world's largest Airline and Airport review site, Skytrax. The airport of the Red City came behind the international airport of King Shaka (South Africa) and ahead of Sharam El-Sheik ...

Royal air Maroc, an airline with a fleet of 60 aircraft with 22 on order is looking to go public. According to industry sources Royal Air Morocco airline management and the Moroccan government, a majority owner, are working to attract a foreign airline to acquire 20 to 30%, a f ...

New Delhi - A group of Indian businessmen will start, as of July 31, a thirty-day visit to Morocco to explore investment and partnership opportunities in the Kingdom. The trade mission includes around fifty representatives of enterprises specialized in the sectors of food-proces ...