Tourism showed slight positive increase in 2011

Tourism industry showed “slight increase” in 2011, according to the managing director of the Moroccan National Office of Tourism (ONMT) Abdelhamid Addou, amid the economic crisis that hits the world.  Addou said the number of arrivals were 2% higher year on year. “It is a good result compared with competing countries,” notably Egypt and Tunisia, although it is also “frustrating” compared with the expectations, Abdou told Moroccan French-speaking newspaper “L’Economiste.” “The year 2012...

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THE SEASON FOR OLIVE

Olive season has just come to and end…and by olive season I mean that the olives ripened, were harvested, and either pressed for oil or cured to turn them edible. Did you know that both black olives and green olives come from the same tree? Here is a very ripe olive from our family farm.  Did you also know that harvesting olives by hand is a labor intensive business? In Morocco it’s all done this way: a large plastic is laid out under the tree, then you take a long bamboo stick and start...

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Pride at stake in 'dead' Morocco, Niger Cup tie

Eric Gerets, in what could be his last match as coach of Morocco, will expect his players to end their curtailed stay in Gabon with a flourish in the 'dead' clash with Niger on Tuesday. Both sides are heading home after this final Africa Cup of Nations Group C tie having been trumped in the race for a quarter-final place by co-hosts Gabon and Tunisia.  While pride is the only prize at stake it promises to be a hard fought affair, with Niger seeking their first ever Cup points and Gerets...

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Morocco sees increase in mobile users

Mobile users in Morocco continued their upward push through 2011, with the number of users rising 14.29 percent to 36.55 million. According to the report from the country’s national telecom regulator ANRT, the result is a 113.57 percent penetration rate.  Growth in post-paid customers also saw a large increase of 26.66 percent, compared to only 13.8 percent in 2010. “Mobile voice traffic increased by 65.6 percent and SMS traffic by 31.38 percent, compared to last year. Maroc Telecom saw...

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Badr Hari knocks out Gokhan Saki

The first major kickboxing event of 2012, It's Showtime in Leeuwarden, went down yesterday (Sat., Jan. 28, 2012), and it delivered in spades.  After years of enthralling audiences with his devastating power inside the ring and questionable antics outside of it, Moroccan "Bad Boy," Badr Hari, announced his intention to retire from kickboxing in order to pursue a career in professional boxing. For his final bout, he took on fearsome Turk Gokhan Saki, intending to leave on as high and exciting...

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Google seeks to clarify new privacy policy

Seeking to blunt a sharp backlash to recent privacy policy changes, Google has offered to share "the real story" about a system that compiles information about users based on their activity on all of Google's sites and products.  This week, Google announced new privacy settings. They spell out the fact that the company collects and compiles data about its users based on their activity on its various sites -- from its search page to Gmail to YouTube to phones running its Android operating...

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Morocco trip pulled Brad Pitt from a deep depression

Brad Pitt has revealed that it took him a trip to the North African kingdom of Morocco, one of the world’s major producers and exporters of cannabis, to get rid of his deep depression marked with “smoking way too much dope.”  While Pitt was living the brightest moments of his professional life in the 1990s with his roles in “A River Runs Through It,” “Legends of the Fall” and “Seven,” the Hollywood star was living debasing moments in his personal life. “I got really sick of myself at the...

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KISSING THE YOUNG PRINCE'S HAND in Morocco

In Egypt and Sudan female circumcision is still practiced, in Tibet, we are told, one can be cut in pieces and have the pieces thrown to birds, in East Africa some tribes slice their phallus, in India there are still instances of widows burning, and in Kuwait men shake noses instead of shaking hands…  Yet, to be politically correct, some people say ‘’it’s cultural!’’! But when it comes to a Moroccan overly solicitous general kissing the hand of the young crown prince, no one thinks it’s...

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MARIAH CAREY TO PERFORM IN MAY AT MOROCCAN FESTIVAL

Since Mariah Carey has a boy boy named Moroccan and have a Moroccan-themed room in her New York apartment, it would make sense that she would perform in the country that has inspired her marital life.  The R&B diva reportedly has agreed to perform at Morocco’s Mawazine Festival in May. According to Morocco World News, Carey will sing at the festival in the Moroccan city of Rabat on May 26, closing out the eight-day event, which begins on May 18.  Organizers says that Carey will...

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Gabon, Tunisia through as Morocco crash out

Gabon and Tunisa became the latest teams to seal their Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final places on Friday as Morocco and newcomers Niger were knocked out. Day seven at the 2012 Nations Cup delivered up a Group C double bill in Libreville. The first leg saw Tunisia, champions in 2004, down Niger 2-1 to put one foot in the last eight. Next on the menu at the L’Amitie Stadium came Gabon, who faced a Morocco side fighting for their Cup lives after an opening loss to Tunisia. Not one of the 40,000...

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Viadeo vies for Arab expansion with Moroccan branch

Viadeo, the world's second-biggest online networking site for professionals after LinkedIn, said on Friday it had opened a regional branch in Morocco as it seeks to expand its presence in the increasingly-wired Arab world.  Viadeo, which targets professionals, job seekers and recruiters, shelved plans for an initial public offering last year to focus on growth in emerging markets.  "Morocco is the first country in Northern Africa and within the Arab world where Viadeo has established...

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Malaria distracts Morocco ahead of must-win game

Morocco faced a tough task to stay alive in the African Cup of Nations even before reserve goalkeeper Issam Badda was diagnosed with a mild form of malaria and leading striker Marouane Chamakh was hit by fever and a stomach illness. Having lost to Tunisia in its Group C opener, Eric Gerets' team faces a buoyant Gabon which will be boosted again by a stadium of rowdy home supporters in Libreville on Friday. Morocco, meanwhile, has been demoralized by a disappointing result against its North African...

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South Africans Among the Most Prolific Twitter Users |Morocco 5Th

While Twitter played an important role in the 2011 Egyptian revolution, South Africa is home to Africa's most prolific tweeters, according to a report on Twitter use on the continent. Portland Communications and Tweetminster monitored more than 11.5 million location-tagged tweets in Africa and conducted a survey of the region's 500 most active Twitter users to deliver what is perhaps the first comprehensive report on Twitter use on the continent. Titled "How Africa Tweets," the report discovered...

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Morocco Government Wins Parliament Confidence

The new coalition government of Morocco, led, for the first time, by the Islamic-leaning Justice and Development Party (PJD), won a vote of confidence by the parliament on Thursday.  A total of 218 MPs voted for the four-party government of Prime Minister and PJD Chairman Abdelilah Benkirane against 135 without any abstention. The government, formed on January 3, enjoys larger powers compared to the previous government under the provisions of the new Constitution which was adopted in a national...

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Famous Photographers with their Most iconic Pictures

The Tank Man of Tienanmen Square. Muhammad Ali standing over Sonny Liston in victory. The portrait of the Afghan Girl on the cover of National Geographic. Many of us can automatically recall these photos in our heads, but far fewer can name the photographers who took them. Even fewer know what those photographers look like. Tim Mantoani hopes to change that by taking portraits of famous photographers holding their most iconic or favorite photos in his new book Behind Photographs: Archiving Photographic...

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TUNISIA EDGES MOROCCO, GABON TOPS NIGER AT AFRICAN CUP

Gabon matched Equatorial Guinea's spirited start at the African Cup of Nations on Monday after a pulsating atmosphere at Stade de l'Amitie carried the co-host to a 2-0 win over Niger in front of its football-mad president. Ali Bongo and his first lady Sylvia -- wearing a team shirt -- celebrated like fans in the stadium's VIP section as the "Panthers" outclassed tournament debutant Niger 2-0 in the first match in Gabon.  Gabon controlled its match from start to finish, with first-half goals...

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Moroccan law graduate who burned himself dies

A 27-year-old Moroccan who set himself on fire to protest his unemployment died from his burns Tuesday in a Casablanca hospital, his wife said.  Abdelwahab Zaydoun was part of a group of unemployed graduates who occupied an Education Ministry building in Rabat, the Moroccan capital, to protest their unemployment and threatened to set themselves fire when police didn't let supporters deliver them food. "I saw him in the morgue, he is dead and I accuse the makhzen of killing him," Amina Naddam,...

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Megaupload shut down

Sketch of Anthony Como Talking about the closure of MegaUpload in french.  Story: File-sharing website Megaupload.com has been shut down for violating piracy laws, according to reports. The New York Times reports that the company – which, according to the indictment filed by federal prosecutors in Virginia, America, was at one point the 13th most popular website in the world – has been closed down and its founders have been charged. Prosecutors claim that the service has cost copyright holders...

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THE “ARAB SPRING” SPURS ALGERIA TO RECONCILE WITH MOROCCO

Reports of the upcoming visit by the new Moroccan Foreign Minister to Algiers are signs that recent political and social events in North Africa are forcing the Algerian government and the Moroccan authorities to reconsider their long simmering rivalry. Morocco and Algeria have been in a state of “undeclared war” since the beginning of hostility in the Western Sahara in 1975. However, the toppling of the Tunisian, Egyptian and Libyan dictatorships is forcing the aging Algerian Political and Military...

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In Morocco, Islamists Learn To Work With A King

An Islamist party heads Morocco's newly elected government, part of a wave of Islamist election victories following uprisings across North Africa. But Morocco's case is a bit different. King Mohammed VI responded quickly to a pro-democracy movement last year with a new constitution and snap elections. The Justice and Development Party, known as the PJD, won the most votes in November. Now, Moroccans ask: How will this popular Islamist party govern? Islamists in the PJD say they are different....

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Anonymous Strikes Again

Last week, just hours after the U.S. government arrested the leaders of and shut down MEGAUPLOAD.COM, a popular hub for illegal file sharing, "hacktivist" collective ANONYMOUS counter-attacked by shutting down the websites to the U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP, the RIAA, the MPAA and among many other targets, possibly including the WHITE HOUSE (NET NEWS 1/19). Now, "ANONYMOUS strikes again," reports PC MAGAZINE. "Fresh off the last few days' worth of Web attacks,...

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Pepe stamps On Lionel Messi hand #Messi

Pepe once again has expressed in his own way, walking deliberately on the hand of Lionel Messi. Otherwise, FC Barcelona won 2-1 against Real Madrid in the clasico, with a winning goal from Eric Abida   ...

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A Moroccan Movie Poised to Be Nominated by the Academy Awards

For the first time, Morocco might be among the countries that will be represented in the the 84th edition of the Academy Awards scheduled to be held on February 26. The Moroccan movie, Omar Killed Me, by Roshdy Zem is among the nine foreign-language movies included in the shortlist that has just been released by the Academy. Only five films will be nominated in the Foreign Language Film category. An unjustly convicted man fights for justice in this drama based on a true story. Omar Raddad...

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Morocco, Tunisia group favorites 'only on paper'

Morocco coach Eric Gerets had predicted a tournament of surprises at the African Cup of Nations even before Equatorial Guinea's dramatic victory over Libya and Zambia's shock win over Senegal on the opening night. The unexpected results will serve as a warning to Morocco ahead of games against co-host Gabon and little-known debutant Niger in Group C. First, Gerets' team starts against North African rival Tunisia on Monday when the African Cup switches to Gabon and Libreville's Stade de l'Amitie. The...

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العالم يشهد أول اعتراف رسمي بدين تكنولوجي جديد

دين جديد ولد من رحم التكنولوجيا وأسسه مراهق كان عمره 17 سنة حين دعا إليه لأول مرة منذ عامين، حقق أول انتصار له الأربعاء الماضي حين أعلنت السويد اعترافها بكنيسته رسميا، قائلة إن لديانة "الكوبيميزم" فضائل ومقدسات جدية ولأتباعها الحق بالتبشير. الديانة الجديدة هي Kopimism التي استمدت اسمها من Cope Me أو "انسخني" ودعا إليها زعيمها الروحي، السويدي ايزاك جيرسون، وهو طالب فلسفة بجامعة استوكهولم يصف نفسه في صفحة على الإنترنت بأنه "عاشق للحرية ولتبادل المعلومات مهما كانت لإنقاذ العالم" كما يقول. وبدأ...

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Facebook Messenger for Windows officially released

Mere hours after Facebook Messenger for Windows leaked, Facebook has released the official desktop client. Facebook contacted me and said the official Messenger for Windows download link is available from fbcdn_dragon-a.akamaihd.net. Facebook would not confirm the version number with me, but given that the application updates automatically, I think Menlo Park made a decision to officially release it instead of trying to combat the leak. Smart move. This means that the screenshots I put together...

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Dubai: New Year Eve 2012

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2011 Told Through Twitter - Year in Review

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NOW                               THEN Mustaf Ramid Minister of Justice in Moro...

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The Most Popular YouTube Videos of 2011

1- Rebecca Black - Friday - Official Music Video:  2- Ultimate Dog Tease:   3- Jack Sparrow (feat. Michael Bolton):  4- Talking Twin Babies - PART 2 - OFFICIAL VIDEO: 5- Nyan Cat [original...

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تعيين حكومة جديدة في المغرب #Morocco

عين الملك محمد السادس ، مرفوقا بولي العهد الأمير مولاي الحسن اليوم الثلاثاء بقاعة العرش بالقصر الملكي بالرباط أعضاء الحكومة الجديدة. في ما يلي تشكيلة الحكومة الجديدة : عبد الإله بنكيران : رئيس الحكومة عبد الله بها : وزير الدولة محند العنصر : وزير الداخلية سعد الدين العثماني : وزير الشؤون الخارجية والتعاون مصطفى الرميد : وزير العدل والحريات أحمد التوفيق : وزير الأوقاف والشؤون الإسلامية إدريس الضحاك : الأمين العام للحكومة نزار بركة : وزير الاقتصاد والمالية نبيل بنعبد الله : وزير السكنى...

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