Morocco News
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Rabat - A human rights organisation reports that an Algerian Islamist prisoner has died in a Moroccan prison after a hunger strike that lasted about two months. Ahmed Ben Miloud was convicted in December of using a firearm in the Algerian consulate in Oujda and sentenced to 20 years in prison. The 56-year-old died on Thursday. Anas al-Halaoui, spokesperson for
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How a pair of slum kids are turned into killers, by the tiny trials of life as much as by Islamist brainwashing, goes under the microscope in an ambitious Cannes film based on the 2003 Casablanca attacks. "God's Horses" by the French director of Moroccan origin Nabil Ayouch follows the destiny of two brothers, Yachine and Hamid, from their childhood
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Casablanca - A Moroccan court on Friday jailed one of the country's most famous rappers to one year in prison over a video critical of the police, judicial officials told AFP. Mouad Belghouat, 24, is known for his criticism of King Mohammed VI and was arrested on March 28 by plainclothes officers. His Casablanca trial was delayed several times before
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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,
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Rabat - Morocco's prime minister has hit out at courtiers around King Mohammed in rare criticism that could signify the start of a confrontation between the Islamist-led government and powerful figures close to the palace. Moroccan authorities, under pressure from the "Arab Spring" upheavals elsewhere in the region, held early elections last year which for the first time handed power
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Rabat - A seller of sex toys has been sentenced to eight months in prison and fined €900 by a Moroccan court for infringing public decency, local newspapers reported on Monday. The vendor, who was not named, was sentenced on Thursday for "importing, holding and exhibiting licentious products and the publication of prints and photos that are against morals and
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Rabat - Twenty-seven political prisoners in Morocco are on hunger strike to protest inhumane conditions, uninvestigated cases of torture and detention without sentencing, rights groups said on Wednesday. "We demand a rapid intervention by those responsible to protect the legitimate rights of the striking prisoners," a coalition of 18 groups said in a statement. They listed the 27 prisoners, where
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Some 200 Moroccan women staged an angry protest Saturday outside parliament a week after the suicide of a 16-year-old girl who was forced to marry the man who raped her. Brandishing signs reading "Martyr Amina," "The Law Killed Me," and "We Are All Aminas," they called for changes to a penal code that allows a rapist to stay out of
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Atop a remote mountain overlooking one of Africa's largest silver mines, a group of Moroccan activists -- many of them women and children -- are trying to choke off the facility's water supply. Since August, the women have turned out by the hundreds in this arid region, along with their kids and men of all ages, to block some of
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Rabat - Outrage has been building in Morocco's online community over the case of a 16-year-old girl who committed suicide after being forced to marry her rapist. According to the local press, Amina Filali died after taking rat poison on Saturday. She had been married for the last five months to a man who raped her a year earlier. The
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The United Nations plans to host negotiations between Western Sahara rebels and the Moroccan government from March 11 through March 13, a UN spokesman said Friday. The talks are scheduled to be held at the Greentree estate in the Long Island suburbs of New York City. Representatives from Algeria and Mauritania plan to join the talks between the Polisario Front
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The Moroccan immigrant accused of attempting a suicide attack against the US Capitol building waived his rights to preliminary and detention hearings before a court in Virginia. Amine El Khalifi, 29, was arrested Friday in Washington near the Capitol building wearing what he thought was a bomb vest ready to be detonated. Undercover FBI agents had given him the vest,
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Morocco has condemned an alleged plot to bomb the US Capitol over which a citizen of the north African country was arrested, the official MAP agency reported Monday. The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Friday arrested Amine El Khalifi, a 29-year-old immigrant from Morocco living illegally in the US state of Virginia, in a sting operation. He was was arrested
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Morocco has banned the distribution of Thursday's edition of Spain's influential El Pais, as a cartoon published by the newspaper allegedly tarnished King Mohammed VI's name, an official said. "The decision to ban (the paper) was made on the basis of article 29 of the press code" that protects the monarch, the senior communication ministry official told AFP on Saturday.
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24-year-old Moroccan defender Mehdi Benatia may be signed by Manchester United as he is being tracked by the English club. This tracking comes at a moment when Man United’s Rio Ferdinand is likely to leave for the United States; so Benatia bear the qualities to fill the gap. The Moroccan; whose contract with his present club, Udinese ends in 2015
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Casablanca — Deadly clashes between police and youth in the Northeastern town of Taza last week suggest that, far from bringing change and stability, Morocco's new government is simply repeating mistakes of the past, stoking tensions and fuelling a spate of protests against the regime. In an effort to keep its population in check during the Arab Spring, the regime
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Tunisia's new President Moncef Marzouki arrived in Morocco Wednesday to push for a revival of a dormant project to unify the Maghreb region on his first foreign tour since taking office. "This year we will work to restore unity with our brothers in Algeria, Morocco, Libya and Mauritania, with the aim of resuscitating the great dream of a Union of
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Rabat - Morocco's King Mohammed issued pardons to several leading Islamists who rights groups say were unfairly jailed, signalling a less hard-line approach after moderate Islamists came to power in an election last year. Royal pardons are customary each year to coincide with the Muslim holiday of Mawlid, the birthday of the Prophet Mohammad which fell this weekend, but it
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Rabat - Morocco's Communications Minister Mustapha Khelfi called on Friday for talks and a return to calm after violent clashes between youths and police in the northeastern town of Taza, where dozens were injured. "Calm prevails in Taza and we are getting on top of the situation. The authorities are concerned with maintaining order and with responding to the legitimate
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Morocco denied Niger their first ever Africa Cup of Nations point with a 1-0 win in this meaningless closing Group C tie here on Tuesday. With both teams already knocked out pride was the only prize on the table as qualified Gabon and Tunisia faced off in Franceville at the same time. After Younes Belhanda had earned Morocco a belated
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An unemployed Moroccan graduate died on Tuesday, almost a week after he set himself ablaze in a horrific act that has become synonymous with discontent in the Arab world. Abdelwahab Zeidoun was one of two men who set themselves on fire during a protest on January 18, the latest in a string of self-immolations across the region since the Arab
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Morocco's new Foreign Minister Saad Eddine Othmani on Monday began a fence-mending visit to Algeria to resolve disputes such as the neighbours' lingering row over Western Sahara. Othmani spoke of a "common will...to breathe new life" into bilateral ties at the start of the two-day visit. Morocco's 1975 annexation of the territory, a former Spanish colony, sparked a war between
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Moroccan King Mohammed VI on Tuesday named a new government led by moderate Islamist Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane, an official told AFP. "The king named the members of the new government at the royal palace in Rabat," an official said, more than a month after the Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD) won legislative polls. The PJD becomes the first
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Rabat - The Moroccan state news agency reports that the king has accepted the cabinet proposed by the country's new prime minister. The Islamist Justice and Development Party, that won most of the votes in the November poll, took 11 of 31 cabinet posts, including foreign affairs, justice, and transportation and communication. The party has long been in the opposition
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Casablanca - Inaugurated by popstar Jennifer Lopez in front of the cream of Moroccan society, Casablanca's first mega mall, complete with two-story-high aquarium, is dripping with glamour and luxury. While developers describe it as a step bringing Morocco closer to the ranks of the developed world, detractors worry that it is a vanity project that a country teetering on the
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