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Morocco coach Eric Gerets has dropped Adel Taarabt of Queens Park Rangers and Heerenveen's Oussama Assaidi for next week's friendly against Burkina Faso in Marrakesh.

Midway through a conversation with Saïd Mouline last week, the director of Morocco?s Agency for the Development of Renewable Energy, it became clear that building the region?s alternative capacity meant much more than just cleaner energy.

Morocco has condemned an alleged plot to bomb the US Capitol over which a citizen of the north African country was arrested, the official MAP agency reported Monday.

Morocco has banned the distribution of Thursday's edition of Spain's influential El Pais, as a cartoon published by the newspaper allegedly tarnished King Mohammed VI's name, an official said.

RABAT (Reuters) - Inflation in Morocco, as measured by consumer prices, stood at 0.9 percent in January led mostly by higher food prices, official data showed on Monday. Food prices, which account for about 40 percent of the consumer price index's total weighting, rose 1.6 percent in January compared to their level a year earlier, the state's High Planning Authority said. Underlying inflation, a ...

A few thousand people gathered Sunday in Morocco's cities to mark the one year anniversary of the North African kingdom's local version of the Arab Spring uprisings.

A few thousand people gathered Sunday in Morocco's cities to mark the one year anniversary of the North African kingdom's local version of the Arab Spring uprisings.

RABAT, Morocco ? Morocco?s pro-democracy February 20 movement spearheaded the country?s version of the Arab Spring and sent the centuries-old monarchy scrambling to reform. Now, a year after its birth, the youth-led group appears to have lost its way. Read full article >>

RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco may tap the international bond market in 2012 after its current account deficit surged last year to the highest since the 1980s, although the country is not under pressure to borrow, government ministers said on Monday. Higher energy and food import bills coupled with weaker growth in tourism receipts and some exports pushed the current account deficit to 6.5 percent of ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union lawmakers approved a new trade deal with Morocco on Thursday that will significantly extend duty-free sales of agricultural, food and fisheries products between the North African kingdom and the 27-nation bloc. The EU's agriculture chief, Dacian Ciolos, described the deal as both economically and politically significant. "It is a balanced agreement, which ...