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CASABLANCA, Morocco (Reuters) - Morocco plans to reform its costly subsidies system before the end of June, as it seeks to pull key economic indicators out of the red and create employment, the minister in charge of the issue said on Tuesday. The move would be one of the boldest reforms taken by a government led since January by Justice and Development, a moderate and former opposition Islamist ...

Morocco's glittering Mawazine international music festival wraps up this weekend with performances by Mariah Carey and Lenny Kravitz, after nine days of showcasing the North African kingdom's cool factor ? even as dissident Moroccan musicians are imprisoned for their anti-establishment lyrics.

CASABLANCA, Morocco (Reuters) - Morocco plans to speed up tender processes for the development of a 2,000-megawatt solar energy plan, starting with the award this year of a first contract for 160 megawatts to be generated using concentrated-solar technology (CSP). Mustafa Bakkoury, who chairs the Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy (Masen), said a winning consortium for that first phase of a 500 ...

Morocco's glittering music festival wrapped up with performances by Mariah Carey and Lenny Kravitz ? even as dissident Moroccan musicians are imprisoned for their anti-establishment lyrics.

Morocco's glittering Mawazine international music festival wraps up this weekend with performances by Mariah Carey and Lenny Kravitz, after nine days of showcasing the North African kingdom's cool factor ? even as dissident Moroccan musicians are imprisoned for their anti-establishment lyrics.

ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Morocco is considering a potential dollar-denominated international bond of up to $1 billion in September or October, a senior finance and economy ministry official said on Wednesday. "It would be our first issue in dollars and give us the opportunity to diversify," said El Hassan Eddez, deputy director, treasury and external finance at the ministry's debt office. "(If ...

Morocco on Thursday said it had lost confidence in the United Nations' envoy for Western Sahara, Christopher Ross, claiming his work in the disputed region was "unbalanced and biased".

RABAT, Morocco, May 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of the IBM (NYSE: IBM ) Smarter Cities Challenge grant program, a team of five IBM experts hailing from three continents has arrived in Morocco. For ...

RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco will keep import duties on soft wheat suspended until the end of May before raising them to 17.5 percent in the June 1 to end-December period as it braces for higher imports, official and trade sources said on Wednesday. A combination of dry weather and long cold spells reduced the north African country's cereals crop to 4.8 million tonnes this year, down 43 percent ...

Tens of thousands take to the streets in Morocco's largest city, Casablanca, accusing the authorities of failing to deliver promised reforms.