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Tunisia Outperforms Western Nations in Global Children’s Rights Ranking, Morocco Lags Behind

20 May 2019

According to a study conducted by the Dutch Foundation, KidsRights, in partnership with the Erasmus University of Rotterdam and the International Institute of Social Studies, (…)

Homeless Woman Gives Birth Alone in Agadir Public Restroom, Both Hospitalized

14 April 2019

A homeless woman has just given birth in a public restroom, this in Agadir, and more precisely in a restroom on the promenade. The child and the mother were then taken to the (…)

Rabat Hospital Denies Link Between Power Outage and Infant Deaths

10 April 2019

For the Ibn Sina University Hospital in Rabat, the recent deaths of newborns recorded in the hospital would in no way be attributable to the power cuts that occurred on the (…)

Morocco’s Fertility Rate Plummets: Urban Areas Near Critical Threshold

20 March 2019

The latest figures just published by the High Commission for Planning (HCP) are worrying: Moroccan women are having fewer and fewer children and this trend is expected to (…)

Moroccan Child Abuse Case: Stepmother Jailed for 2012 Mistreatment of 10-Year-Old

7 March 2019

The facts occurred almost 7 years ago but they are still in the memory of the victim, 10 years old at the time, who suffered the fury of her stepmother without the father (…)

Newborn Girl Rescued from Dumpster in Moroccan City of Khouribga

27 February 2019

A newborn baby has just been found near a dumpster in Khouribga. This little girl would be barely a few days old...

Morocco Welcomes Nearly 1,900 New Year’s Day Babies, UNICEF Reports

5 January 2019

1,879 babies were born in Morocco on January 1, 2018, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in a report on the number of births worldwide.