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Morocco Newsline — Thousands of Jews from Morocco, Israel and other parts of the world have over the past week carried out an annual pilgrimage to the Islamic nation to honour celebrated rabbis. Morocco may not be the likeliest of Jewish pilgrim destinations, but the north African nation has for centuries had a vibrant Jewish population and some 1,200 of the faith's pious ancestors are buried in cemeteries here. In recent days, about 5,000 pilgrims have gathered to pray for peace at sanctuaries and gravesites. Perhaps the most famous of these burial grounds is that of Amran Ben Diwan, a venerated rabbi who was interred 250 years ago in the mountains of Ouazzane, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of the capital Rabat.
Morocco Newsline — IOM and the Belgian Embassy in Rabat have signed an agreement to launch an innovative project aimed at encouraging Moroccans living in Belgium to start businesses back home in Morocco. The EUR 1.2 million, two-year programme seeks to encourage Moroccan expatriates to invest their savings, knowledge and expertise into the setting up of private ventures that will further the development of impoverished regions in the north and east of the country.
Morocco Newsline — Anas Sefrioui, a reclusive Moroccan-born billionaire property developer, is building low-cost homes for thousands of middle class Moroccans. Little is known about Moroccan billionaire Anas Sefrioui. He was born in 1957 in Fes, one of Morocco’s four major cities. As the story goes, he dropped out of school very early to take up a job with his father Abdesallam Sefrioui, producing “Gassoul” a popular Moroccan SPA clay used for washing the body and hair.
Morocco Newsline — Liberia's Foreign Minister, Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan, has held series of bilateral discussions aimed at strengthening and expanding existing relations and fostering new partnerships. Minister Ngafuan met Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba on Saturday, May 5th and the Moroccan Foreign Minister Dr. Saad Dine El Otmani on Sunday, May 6, 2012. The meetings were held on the margin of the 4th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) Ministerial Follow-up Meeting in Marrakech, Morocco held on May 5-6, 2012.
Morocco Newsline — Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz salutes the agriculture industry's success at the Salon International de l'Agriculture au Maroc (SIAM) held in Meknes, Morocco, last week. Canada's agriculture industry estimates that their participation in Africa's largest agricultural trade show will generate approximately $21 million in sales over the next 12 months.
Morocco Newsline — A recent trip to Morocco allowed Penn State engineering leadership students to put theory into practice as they engaged in a cross-cultural collaboration with engineering students from Ecole Mohammadia d'Ingenueurs (EMI). The students were a part of the capstone class for the Engineering Leadership Development Minor, Leadership Innovation and Global Resource Challenges, taught by Rick Schuhmann, the Walter L. Robb Director of Engineering Leadership Development.
Morocco Newsline — Longreach Oil & Gas is the type of company that goes where no big company wants to bother with, and seeks upstream success in that place. This British company has focused exclusively on Morocco, a country that several years ago overhauled its oil and gas laws to open the doors to foreign investment.
Morocco Newsline — Morocco is a country shaded with a variety of colors yet cloaked with the blanket of mystery. It is this charm, the fact that that tourists desire to know more and more about Morocco is what makes this country so attractive. Even today Morocco proudly upholds its past glories, its traditions and the culture of Morocco, which is reflected in the ancient monuments and structural designs of Morocco.
Morocco Newsline — A top Moroccan newspaper editor, convicted and jailed under the penal code for his writings, was freed Saturday after serving a year in prison. Rachid Nini, editor of the country's most popular daily, al-Massae, was convicted for "trying to discredit and influence a court and publishing information on crimes that haven't been proven.
Morocco Newsline — Relatives and friends of the 17 people killed in a Marrakech cafe bombing a year ago on Saturday marked the first anniversary of their death by releasing a dove in memory of each of them.The attack at the Argana cafe on the former imperial city's famed Jamaa el-Fna square killed eight French tourists, two Canadians, two Moroccans, one Briton, one Dutchman, a Portuguese, Russian and Swiss national.Dozens were wounded.
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