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morocco related news : AHIIDA BURKINI COMES TO MOROCCO |
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Australian company Ahiida, the creator of the famous Burkini/Burqini swimming costume has created it's Europen office in Casablanca. Mrs Emily BOUCHIBTI will run the office with responsability for all activities in the European and North African regions. Ahiida Europe would like to develop relationships with individuals or companies who are interested in distribution for the brand in North Africa. Emily can be contacted at ahiida.burkiniswimwear@ymail.com telephone +212 61 200 823
Posted by Admin on Sun Mar 28, 2010 2:06 am ( Reads: 238 )
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Morocco related articles : My first visit to the hammam |
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I have read a couple of articles in books and on the Internet re the Hammam. There is a book by Pamela Windo called Zora's Ladder, the first chapter is called An Afternoon in the Hammam and she makes it sound such a great experience. It is available from most books shops for about £6
Last Easter when we were over in our apartment, I was talking with the life-guard about the Hammam, is there was one in M'Diq? Will I be able to use it? Can I get a massage there? Etc. It turns out there are a couple of Hammams in M'Diq, there is no reason why I couldn't use them and a massage shouldn't be a problem
During the summer, when we were back over in our apartment I found out where one of the Hammams are and thought I would give it a go. I got up early the next morning packed my towel and trunks and set off all excited about my first Hammam experience. I got there about 10 o'clock, knocked on the little counter window for service when a lady appeared and started shouting and pointing me out of the way. There was a local man hanging about outside and being aware that there are both men and womens Hammams I tried to ask him where the mens one was. I think he understood what I was trying to ask, the problem was I didn't have a clue what he was saying to me.
Posted by Admin on Fri Oct 31, 2008 3:14 am ( Reads: 1265 )
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morocco related news : Woman City Movie |
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A Moroccan American, Sidi Cherkawi Benzahra, is directing an action drama movie, called Woman City. The movie is now shooting in Los Angeles, Minnesota, and South Dakota. The movie will go to post production in a few months and will be completed before year (2008) end. The movie website: www.womancitymovie.com
You can see the trailer in youtube by typing: Woman City
Posted by Admin on Sun Feb 03, 2008 9:09 pm ( Reads: 1038 )
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morocco related news : Over 11,000 Moroccan workers enrolled in Spain's next agricultural campaign |
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Over 11,000 Moroccan workers enrolled in Spain's next agricultural campaign
Rabat, Dec.4 - Over 11,000 agricultural laborers will head for the Spanish region of Huelva (south-west) for the forthcoming agricultural campaign part of a joint job placement program, said, here Tuesday, a press release of the national agency for the promotion of employment and skills (ANAPEC).
Around 11,127 seasonal workers, including 8,431 inexperienced ones, will work in Huelva for three months, part of the foreign placement program which falls under the framework of the MEDA II "Institutional support for the movement of people."
Thanks to this program some 12,000 seasonal jobs will be created in 2008 against only 300 in 2002.
The program of seasonal migration management between Morocco and Huelva, which started in 2004, concerns female candidates aged between 18 and 40 and living in the countryside. It aims among other things to set up an efficient system for seasonal migration management and an efficient tool to fight illegal migration, a source of abusive exploitation against illegal laborers.
Posted by Admin on Wed Dec 05, 2007 9:59 am ( Reads: 1084 )
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morocco related news : Huge IT potential in Morocco |
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Huge IT potential in Morocco
DUBAI: Bahrain is positioned to be a major technology partner for Morocco with major reforms and increased opportunities for investments and partnerships.
Research group IDC has said the telecommunications sector in particular offers huge potential for suppliers and telecom operators as well as for local enterprises looking to outsource information technology.
"Morocco is increasingly positioning itself as a key telecommunication partner for companies across the region, providing both a strong Arabic-speaking outsourcing destination, as well as sustaining major growth and investment opportunities," Moroccan Federation of Information Technologies, Telecommunications and Offshoring (Apebi) chairman Bachir Rachdi said.
Globally the telecommunications sector almost quadrupled in value between 1998 and 2006, growing from $873 million to $3.23 billion last year.
Morocco has seen particularly strong infrastructure growth, currently supporting over 400,000 ADSL connections, making it the most connected broadband country in Africa, even ahead of South Africa.
"Morocco initiated market liberalisation relatively early which has created major benefits in the first phase for suppliers and telecommunication partners," IDC Middle East and Africa vice-president and regional managing director Jyoti Lalchandani said.
"We're now seeing that the results of this investment have created wider social and economic benefits, particularly as Morocco becomes a major outsourcing partner for companies in the GCC."
Morocco's strength as an information and communications technology (ICT) outsourcing centre stems from the rapid expansion of the industry and its use of advanced global networks.
The Moroccan IT market expanded from $403.88 million in 2001 to $638.69m last year, representing an average annual growth rate of 9.6 per cent.
With more than 1,500 ICT firms employing over 42,000 people, the country is now firmly established as one of the leading suppliers of IT services in the Middle East.
Meanwhile, IDC's meeting in at Emirates Towers Dubai yesterday on 'Agenda for a Shrinking Globe, Seizing Opportunities in a Connected World', brought together representatives from government, telecommunications, utility and transport companies to meet senior representatives from Apebi.
Posted by Admin on Wed Dec 05, 2007 9:47 am ( Reads: 1043 )
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morocco related news : Brisk business at ''closed'' Morocco-Algeria border |
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Reuters.co.uk
By Tom Pfeiffer
Brisk business at "closed" Morocco-Algeria border
OUJDA, Morocco (Reuters) - On the last stretch of Moroccan highway before the Algerian frontier, an end-of-the- world atmosphere appears to confirm the message of travel guides and government officials: the land border to Algeria is shut.
Spacious roadside cafes once packed with travelers lie empty. Where the road ends, weeds push through wide cracks.
The only sound is the wind in the trees, the fluttering of Moroccan flags and the heels of two mustachioed border guards as they emerge from their office.
Their faces hold a look of faint surprise: "Yes, the Algerians are out there somewhere," says one, glancing back beyond a huddle of disused customs buildings.
"But we never talk to them. We hardly ever see them."
Rusty barriers and spiked chains crouch as a warning that travelers venture further at their peril.
But follow one of the beaten tracks over the hilly frontier and a different picture emerges.
No fences, searchlights or passports here. The way is clear for a steady stream of cars, donkeys and carts that furtively criss-cross no-man's land weighed down with contraband goods.
Smugglers pay border guards to look the other way as fuel, food, household appliances, rugs, tools and CDs are ferried to and fro in a triumph of everyday necessity over politics.
The heroes are the "warriors" -- beaten-up old Renault and Peugeot cars without number plates, tax discs, insurance or lights that hurtle through the border zone at night, their trunks and back seats laden with Algerian fuel. When border police decide to make arrests, the owners abandon their vehicles and flee.
Much of the fuel winds up in Beni Drar, a small town near the border city of Oujda that is growing so fast from the profits of contraband that local people call it "Beni Dollar."
The economics are irrefutable. You get 30 liters of Algerian diesel for 140 Moroccan dirhams ($18.29), compared with around 240 dirhams for the Moroccan version.
DIESEL, CANNABIS, AMPHETAMINES
Legal filling stations lie abandoned but the smell of diesel still wafts over Beni Drar. On the road into town, young men point their thumbs to the ground, a sign to passing drivers that bootleg Algerian fuel is for sale.
A car stops and a vendor dashes into the trees and hauls a plastic 30-litre bottle of pink gasoline from a hole in the ground hidden under leaves and twigs.
"I make 60 dirhams a day and can feed my family -- that's 60 dirhams more than I'd make sitting at home or looking for a job that never comes," said the vendor who asked not to be named.
Cannabis from Morocco's Rif mountains finds its way to Algeria. In the other direction come "Qarqobi" amphetamine pills which are occasionally found in bags of flour by startled Moroccan bakers, according to local legend.
The Oujda chamber of commerce said contraband brought in 6 billion dirhams in 2004, but it warned of the risks. Food transport is often unhygienic and there is a dangerous trade in copycat medicines and banned drugs.
"Contraband helps people live but there are dangers," said chamber of commerce president Driss Houat.
Wherever prices differ across the border, the smugglers find their market. Algerian newspaper Echourouk reported in October that over 30,000 chickens were being smuggled daily from Morocco in trucks fully equipped with chicken coops.
Morocco's fertile eastern region makes for cheaper and tastier fruit and vegetables than those available in Algeria.
Algeria's energy exports allow it to slap more generous subsidies on essential goods like flour, semolina and sugar.
"Morocco benefits because it doesn't have to spend so much on subsidies for people around Oujda -- the Algerians do it for us," said Jelloul Araj, a Moroccan human rights activist.
Even hoteliers who suffered heavily when the border shut are smiling again as people flock to Oujda's cheap markets.
"A lot of hotels closed over the years but we survived and we're expanding again," said the owner of one Oujda hotel, asking not to be named as he held out a packet of dates.
"Have one. They're Algerian contraband -- top quality."
LIFELINE
Algeria closed the border 13 years ago after Morocco accused its security forces of involvement in a Marrakesh hotel shooting and imposed visa restrictions.
Now signs of growing activity by religious militants across the Maghreb are focusing attention on lax border security. On November 22 Algerian newspaper El Khabar reported the arrest of 15 men specialized in smuggling explosives over the frontier.
travelers find little to suggest they are entering another country beside scattered military watchposts, and in some places a white line optimistically daubed by the Algerians.
Sub-Saharan migrants in Morocco awaiting passage to Europe say police often dump them in no-man's land at dead of night.
A game of migrant ping-pong ensues as they are harried back and forth by gun-toting Algerian and Moroccan border guards before finding their way to makeshift camps.
Morocco and Algeria are under pressure from the European Union to open the border to stimulate their economies and create much-needed jobs, but that appears unlikely given continued animosity over the Western Sahara dispute.
In the meantime, people wanting to visit relatives across the frontier must pay traffickers to take them overland by stealth or face a grueling road trip to Casablanca then a flight to Oran, 150 km from the border.
Most families in Oujda have relatives across the border. Even Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has a sister living in Oujda, said rights activist Araj.
"The political decision to keep the border shut is punishing the inhabitants, both Algerian and Moroccan," said the chamber of commerce's Houat.
(Editing by Sara Ledwith)
Posted by Admin on Tue Dec 04, 2007 2:43 pm ( Reads: 1072 )
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morocco related news : Former head of Morocco truth panel dies |
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RABAT, Morocco 05/22 - Driss Benzekri, a former political prisoner who later headed a truth commission in Morocco, has died, a former colleague and fellow detainee said Monday. He was 57.
Benzekri died here Sunday of complications from stomach cancer, said Abdelhamid Amin, a former president of the Moroccan Association for Human Rights.
Benzekri was president of the Equity and Reconciliation Commission, founded in 2004 by Morocco`s King Mohamed VI to look into past human rights abuses including under the monarch`s father, King Hassan II. It was the first such truth-seeking body in the Arab world and has been praised as a model for other Arab countries confronting dark pasts.
Posted by Admin on Wed May 30, 2007 9:10 am ( Reads: 921 )
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morocco related news : Morocco may hold Madeleine clue |
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A petrol station in Morocco may provide a crucial link in the hunt for Madeleine McCann.
A Spanish couple say that they saw a child matching Madeleine's description with a man inside the petrol station in Marrakech.
They say that the young girl was wearing blue-pyjamas and asked repeatedly for her mother.
Despite making constant calls to police in Portugal, England and Spain, the couple say it took ten days for officials to contact them.
Although the Portuguese police said they took the couple's report seriously, Moroccan police had not yet been informed about the case.
Earlier Gerry McCann, Madeleine's father made a 24-hour visit home to make arrangements for the family's expected prolonged stay in Praia da Luz in the Algarve.
It is the first time he had been apart from his wife Kate and two-year-old twins Sean and Amelie since Madeleine was taken from their holiday apartment on May 3 as her parents were dining nearby.
He returned to the village of Rothley where the family lives and visited the village square where thousands of well-wishers have tied yellow ribbons.
Mrs McCann and Madeleine's siblings remained in Praia Da Luz as the family continues with its drive to imprint Madeleine's image in the minds of people across Europe and North Africa.
Their plight has achieved global reach with the website www.findmadeleine.com receiving almost 100 million hits so far.
A fighting fund has also been set up to pay for efforts to raise the child's profile.
May 19: Madeleine video screened at Wembley
Autor: UMA
Posted by Admin on Wed May 30, 2007 9:06 am ( Reads: 888 )
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