RABAT, March 29 (Reuters) - Trading of shares of top Moroccan miner Managem has been temporarily halted on the Casablanca bourse at the request of market regulatory agency, state news agency MAP reported on Wednesday.

Managem had requested the suspension of trading following announcement of the end of a partnership with Wanbao Mining in a discovery in the Democratic Republic of Congo of a copper deposit, the company said.

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