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/ 15 January 2004
A parliamentary commission in Morocco has unanimously recommended a new family code putting wives on a more equal footing with their husbands, officials said on Thursday. The legal age at which girls can marry will be raised from 15 to 18 and polygamy will be permitted only under highly restrictive conditions.
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/ 5 November 2003
It has not been a good week for press freedom in Africa: three journalists in Morocco have been given jail sentences; an Algerian court has handed down sentences to a journalist and an editor, and an AFP reporter in Equatorial Guinea has been detained.