Morocco’s interior minister led a large government delegation Monday to the northern city of Al-Hoceima which has been rocked by months of protests demanding jobs and economic development. Al-Hoceima is in the Rif — a long-neglected ethnically Berber region that was at the heart of a 2011 movement for reform that saw King Mohammed VI … Read more
Morocco’s king on Friday appointed a new prime minister to end a political deadlock that left the North African country without a government for five months, the royal court said. King Mohammed VI named Saad-Eddine El Othmani, a former foreign minister who belongs to the Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD), to form a new … Read more
The king of Morocco is to appoint a new prime minister, the royal palace announced, after an unprecedented five months of talks on forming a coalition government ended in failure. “To break the current deadlock, the king has decided to appoint another member of the PJD (Justice and Development Party) to lead the government within … Read more