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Morocco names film prize after a Senegalese
The prize of the African film festival in the Moroccan city of Khouribga, 173 kilometres from Rabat, has been named after Senegalese film-maker Ousmane...
Morocco : Television now available on cell phones
Personal mobile television (TMP), a service that enables users of cell phone to receive free of charge television programmes, has been officially launched in...
Morocco to get 24 F-16 fighter planes
Morocco has officially ordered 24 F-16 fighter planes from the aircraft manufacturers Lockheed Martin for a total cost of US$ 233.6 million, local...
Yves Saint Laurent’s ashes to be kept in Marrakech Morocco
The ashes of the late french international designer, 71 year old Yves Saint Laurent, who passed away Sunday evening in Paris, will be kept...
Football : Morocco beats Ethiopia in 2010 World Cup / African Nations Cup qualifiers
The Moroccan football team beat their Ethiopian counterparts by 3-0 in the first day of the 'group 8' 2010 World Cup / African Nations...
US military head meets officials in Morocco
The Head of the US Africa Command (AFRICOM), Gen. William E. Ward, Thursday began a two-day visit to Morocco, a US Embassy statement said...
Football : Morocco’s Amine Erbate Amine signs with Olympique de Marseille
Moroccan footballer Amine Erbate is set to play for French side Olympique of Marseille for the next three years, the French premier league side...
Six Moroccans die and several wounded in French accident
A bus carrying Moroccan workers to Paris from Morocco drove into a motorway pillar near Blois, killing seven people and injuring twenty five others....
Samir Nasri gets a transfer from Olympique de Marseille to Arsenal
Following the French sports daily L’Equipe’s announcement, Wednesday, that Samir Nasri was to sign a four year contract with Arsenal, the English club and...
Polisario Front to fight for independence not autonomy from Morocco
The Polisario Front, celebrated the Western Sahara anniversary in Tifariti, Tuesday, a village located near Smara southern Morocco.
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39 illegal immigrants arrested in Western Sahara
Moroccan security services Monday arrested in Laayoune, capital of Western Sahara, 39 sub-Saharan illegal immigrants who were trying to reach Spanish Canary Islands, police...
Gabon President approves Western Sahara’s autonomy under Morocco
President Omar Bongo Ondimba of Gabon has said that Resolution 1813 recently approved by the UN Security Council offers the best opportunity to settle...
Morocco : Three French nationals charged for illegal possession of arms
Three French nationals arrested at the Marrakech airport (southern Morocco) with guns, cartridges and undeclared euros were charged at the Rabat military court on...
Morocco : Fishermen go on indefinite strike
Coastal fishermen in Morocco Thursday started an indefinite strike in all ports in the country, protesting the rise in the price of gasoil which,...
Morocco holds conference on food security
A conference on food security in Maghreb will hold next June in the Moroccan city of Fès, the Dakar-based Arab Maghreb Union (AMU)...
Football : Abdeslam Ouaddou wins racism case in France
The Metz family court (Tribunal de Grande Instance de Metz), France, sentenced a football fan on Tuesday for having insulted the Moroccan footballer Abdeslam...
Morocco gets a new French coach
Frenchman Roger Lemere has been appointed coach of the Moroccan national football team, a statement from the Moroccan Royal Football Association (FRMF) indicated Tuesday....
Arab League to cooperate with AU for peace in Darfur
The Ministerial Council of the Arab League has called on the League's Secretary-General to immediately contact the AU Commission Chairperson in an effort to...
Morocco court postpones factory fire case
The case of Rosaor Ameublement, the factory that burned down April 26 causing the death of 56 workers, took an unprecedented turn in the...
Morocco : Suspicious sinking of migrant boat
The Moroccan government should immediately investigate allegations that its naval forces sank a boat in the Mediterranean in which at least 28 migrants drowned,...
Morocco switches to daylight saving time
Morocco is to save energy by adjusting its clock during summer so it will be one hour ahead of GMT between 1 June and...
Former AfDB chief appointed by UN General secretary
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has appointed Omar Kabbaj, the former managing director of the African Development Bank (AfDB) and current adviser to King...
Morocco applauds latest resolution on Western Sahara
Moroccan Foreign and Co-operation minister, Taieb Fassi Fihri, says his country is "extremely satisfied" with the latest resolution of the United Nations Security Council...
Ten immigrants drown off the coast of Morocco
At least 10 illegal migrants from sub-Saharan Africa drowned on 28 April off Al-Hoceima in the north-east Morocco, security sources told panapress ...
Football : First round results of the African Nations Championship qualifiers
Nigeria's home-based Super Eagles Sunday beat their visiting counterparts from Burkina Faso 2-0 in their first leg, first round qualifiers of the African Nations...
Football : Morocco 1 Algeria 1
The national football teams of Algeria and Morocco drew 1-1 Saturday in Kolea, in Western Algiers, in the first leg, first round qualifiers for...
The Polisario Front insists on a referendum for Western Sahara
The Polisario Front urged international opinion to take the claims "made by a people sure of their right" into account. This statement was made...
Football : Arab champions league final slated for 22 May
The second leg of the fifth edition of the Arab football champions league final between Wydad Casablanca of Morocco and ES Setif of Algeria...
Morocco : 14 illegal immigrants grabbed
Some 14 illegal immigrants from Sub-Sahara and Asia, who attempted to join the Spanish enclave of Melimma, were Wednesday arrested by Moroccan security forces...
Morocco prepares to welcome President of European parliament
The European parliament president, Hans-GertPottering, is expected next Monday in Rabat for his first official visit to Morocco, diplomatic sources in the Moroccan capital...