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/ 24 January 2012
Tunisia has taken the Maghreb derby honours, a 2-1 defeat of Morocco putting them alongside Gabon at the top of Group C in the Africa Cup of Nations.
Morocco’s Justice and Development Party has claimed victory in a parliamentary election that should produce a stronger government with more power.
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/ 27 September 2011
Seven people have been killed in a riot following a football match in Morocco’s disputed Western Sahara region.
Seventy-eight people have been killed and three injured after a military plane slammed into a Moroccan mountainside in bad weather.
King Mohammed VI’s proposed new constitution, intended to stave off open revolt, would do little to change the status quo in Morocco, analysts say.
Morocco’s King Mohammed promised a new democratic constitution on Friday that would devolve some of his powers to Parliament.
Once a no-go area, Morocco’s holiest town is starting to woo tourists, with a friendly new guesthouse and branch of Fez’s coolest restaurant.
Morocco’s anti-trust body will be wholly independent before September to enforce transparency in the award of public procurements and licences.
Poor organisation leaves the Moroccan delegates at the 17th World Festival of Youth and Students feeling unfairly treated.
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/ 14 December 2010
The head of the Western Sahara’s pro-independence force said the group will attend talks with Morocco in December with a "hand extended for peace".
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/ 10 December 2010
Morocco’s royal family is using state institutions to "coerce and solicit bribes" in the country’s lucrative real estate sector according to a report
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/ 16 November 2010
Morocco defended its security forces during a deadly raid on a squatter camp in Western Sahara, and accused Sahrawi protesters of reacting savagely.
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/ 12 November 2010
South Africa has deplored deaths at a camp in Western Saharan following the "heavy-handed" break up of a protest by Moroccan security forces.
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/ 8 November 2010
A statement from the Polisario Front said Morocco’s King Mohammed VI comments "interfere with efforts to settle the conflict".
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/ 2 November 2010
IMF director general tells a human development forum that the recent global crisis cost 30-million jobs worldwide.
Few tourists visit Casablanca, Morocco’s largest city, but <b>Tahir Shah</b> moved his family there and shares his insider knowledge.
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/ 26 January 2010
Plans by Morocco to devolve some power to its regions appear unlikely to convince campaigners in Western Sahara to accept Moroccan sovereignty.
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/ 28 October 2009
The leader of a Moroccan political party that won the presidency of the upper house this month has vowed to act as a ”responsible opposition”.
A Moroccan-born Belgian national suspected of running an extremist group has appealed a life sentence handed down by Morocco’s anti-terrorism court.
A Moroccan court sentenced the leader of an Islamic extremist cell to life in prison on Tuesday.
The Moroccan government has begun a clampdown on what it sees as threats to the kingdom’s religious and moral foundations, with Shi’ite Islam and gays particularly targeted.
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/ 27 February 2009
A Moroccan court convicted 18 people over a series of coordinated suicide bomb attacks in Casablanca six years ago that left 45 dead.
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/ 7 November 2008
The new upmarket Moroccan restaurant turns out to be disappointingly authentic.
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/ 23 October 2008
Arriving in Fes, the only medieval Arab city that is still intact, is like being catapulted back in time. Tahir Shah is spellbound.
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/ 20 October 2008
Storms and floods have killed seven people in Morocco in the past 24 hours, the country’s Interior Ministry said on Monday.
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/ 9 September 2008
A blogger who accused Morocco’s monarchy of encouraging a culture of dependency where loyalty is rewarded with favours has been jailed.
Moroccan security forces have foiled a terrorist plot to attack tourists this summer in a ”near-daily” struggle to root out extremist cells.
Anger over poverty is simmering in Morocco, where popular protests against the high cost of living and unemployment occur regularly.
Five years after Morocco’s deadliest suicide bombings killed 45 people in Casablanca, the North African kingdom remains engaged in a relentless chase for Islamist terrorists. Thousands of people have been detained, including dozens who have been abducted illegally by the secret service and taken to detention centres.
A fire roared through a mattress factory in a poor section of Casablanca, killing up to 55 workers and injuring at least 12 others. A rescue chief said firefighters arrived hours late and that the emergency exit of the building was blocked. The fire broke out midmorning Saturday in an industrial neighborhood outside of sprawling Casablanca, the economic centre of this North African country.
When rumours of a ”gay wedding” spread through the town of Ksar el Kebir, the only evidence produced was a video on YouTube of a man dancing in women’s clothes. Four people are now in prison accused of homosexual acts, Islamists are decrying a decline in morals and liberals are warning that the kingdom risks sleep-walking into extremism.
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/ 17 January 2008
Fourteen people were killed and 26 injured when an apartment block being built in Morocco collapsed, the MAP news agency reported on Thursday, saying rescue workers were still at the scene a day later. The accident happened on Wednesday morning in Kenitra when about 30 building workers were on the site of the two-storey housing and shopping centre, MAP said.