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Around 14 million Moroccans are heading to the polls this Friday to cast their ballot papers in local and regional elections set to be a popularity test for the Islamist ruling party and other parties trying to emerge as important Read more
Controversial Al-Jazeera journalist Ahmed Mansour has been lately at the center of a scandal, this time not because he is under an Egyptian arrest warrant nor because he has been arrested by the German police at Berlin’s airport, but because he insulted in the most Read more
Five key ministers belonging to the Istiqlal party have resigned from the government led by the head of the Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD) Abdelilah Benkirane. King Mohammed IV appointed Benkirane as Prime Minister, after his party emerged as Read more
On Throne day, the kingdom’s King marked the 13th anniversary by delivering a speech in honour of the occasion; and challenging the current government to attract sovereign funds from the countries in the Gulf as the region’s economy experiences hard Read more
Campaigns came to an end while observers have already started arriving. Not less than 44 political parties and 186 independent candidates will be contesting the elections. This year, 21 of the 44 parties are new to the arena thanks to Read more
Morocco’s new Prime minister, Abdelilah Benkirane, leader of the moderate islamist Justice & Development Party (PJD), which won most seats in last novembre parliamentary elections, has unveiled his cabinet team after several weeks of laborious political consultations. The 30-member cabinet Read more