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Hollywood A-lister Jennifer Lopez has jetted over from Los Angeles to Casablanca to inaugurate the Morocco Mall, billed as Africa's largest shopping centre and among the world's top five. After King Mohammed VI's sister, Princess Lalla Meryem, officially opened the mall on Thursday, the US star became its first customer and capped the glitzy launch with a private concert. "She
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Rabat - The leader of an Islamist party that has never before participated in Morocco's governments was chosen by the king as the country's new head of government on Tuesday. The Justice and Development Party won the most votes on Friday in a national election made possible by the pro-democracy demonstrations that swept this North African kingdom of 32 million
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The head of Morocco's Islamist party was summoned by King Mohammed VI on Tuesday for talks on forming a new government following its victory in weekend elections. Abdelilah Benkirane, head of the moderate Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD), is likely to be named prime minister under constitional reforms introduced by the king as the Arab Spring swept through the
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Morocco waited on Monday for King Mohammed VI to appoint the country's first-ever prime minister from a moderate Islamist party after it won the most seats in a landmark parliamentary election. The vote was the first since the approval of a new constitution in a July referendum that transferred some of the monarch's near absolute powers to parliament and the
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Rabat - The victory of an Islamist Party in Morocco's parliamentary elections appears to be one more sign that religious-based parties are benefiting the most from the new freedoms brought by the Arab Spring. Across the Middle East, parties referencing Islam have made great strides, offering an alternative to corrupt, long serving dictators, who have often ruled with close Western
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Rabat - The new government which emerges from Morocco's parliamentary elections faces a growing list of economic challenges, from sky-high youth unemployment to worsening state finances. The country's budget deficit is expected to hit 6% of gross domestic product this year, the highest level in a decade and far above the 4% forecast by the outgoing government, due to increased
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Morocco's moderate Islamist party won a parliamentary election for the first time, preliminary results showed Saturday, the latest religious party to achieve huge gains on the back of the Arab Spring. The victory by the Justice and Development Party (PJD) comes just one month after Islamists won Tunisia's post-revolution election and days before their predicted surge in Egyptian polls. With
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Morocco's Justice and Development party (PJD) claimed a "tidal wave" of votes early Saturday as counting continued in the country's first legislative election since the king introduced constitutional reforms in response to the Arab Spring uprisings. Before any results had been announced, the PJD was already saying that according to the figures they had, they were well ahead of their
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Moroccans are voting today in the country's first legislative election since the constitution was reformed to give the parliament more power. Changes to the constitution were approved in a July referendum early this day. In accordance to the new constitution, the country's prime minister will now be elected, rather than King Mohammed VI's traditional nomination. The elections were first set
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Rabat - Moroccans will vote on Friday in parliamentary elections that could change the country's political landscape, with the possibility of an Islamist party entering government in the wake of the Arab Spring. The elections will also test the democratic will of King Mohammed VI, who reformed the constitution to curtail his own powers in the wake of the Arab
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Casablanca - Thousands of people urged a boycott of Morocco's forthcoming election in peaceful rallies on Sunday called by the pro-reform February 20 movement. At least 5 000 people demonstrated in the centre of Casablanca braving driving rain – 2 000 according to the interior ministry. And in the capital Rabat, another 2 000, including some Islamists, turned out: the
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The vast palm groves of Marrakesh in southern Morocco are in danger from urbanisation, massive tourist projects and even golf courses, so a conservation programme is in hand to save them. Ten centuries after they came to be, these palm groves, which are among the most prized sites in the north African kingdom, are subject to the combined ravages of
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Tangiers - Morocco wants to fully normalise relations with its neighbour Algeria, strained for decades over the disputed Western Sahara region, the kingdom's foreign minister told AFP on Thursday. "Whatever the differences, it's abnormal to not have a normal relationship with a neighbouring country", Taeib Fassi Fihri said following a meeting with his Algerian counterpart Mourad Medelci on the sidelines
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Morocco opened its campaign for November 25 legislative elections Saturday, with moderate Islamists seen as possible winners and fears of a low turnout in the country's second vote this year. In the last parliamentary elections in 2007 turnout was a mere 37 percent, a sign of Moroccans' lack of interest in public affairs. "Turnout - the great fear," ran a
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A Moroccan court on Friday convicted nine men over an April bomb attack that ripped through a Marrakesh cafe packed with European tourists and killed 17, sentencing the plot's ringleader to death. The court gave a life sentence to Adil al-Atmani's top accomplice Hakim Dah, but relatives of those killed voiced outrage at the light sentences given to the seven
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The trial of nine people accused over an April bomb attack that killed 17 in Marrakesh neared closure Thursday as a lawyer for the alleged mastermind insisted his client was innocent. Prosecutors say Adil al-Atmani and eight accomplices orchestrated the April 28 blast at a cafe packed with European tourists, but defence lawyer Hassan Mouhib told the court in Sale,
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Peace efforts between Morocco and Western Sahara rebels have hit a deadlock with a UN envoy unable to organize new talks between the rivals, diplomats said after a Security Council meeting. The Polisario Front's UN representative said Morocco was refusing to come to talks. Diplomats who attended the Security Council meeting on the disputed territory said Morocco had pleaded the
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Morocco will replace strife-hit Egypt as the host country for Africa's final qualifying round for the 2012 Olympics football tournament, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) announced on Thursday. Egypt gave up the tournament due to the tense political and security situation in the country. "Following the withdrawal of the Egyptian Football Association from the hosting of the CAF Under-23
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Nine men accused of launching a bomb attack that ripped through a Marrakesh cafe packed with European tourists, killing 17, each denied their involvement at a trial hearing on Thursday.
Main suspect Adil El-Atmani and eight others have been charged with orchestrating the April 28 blast in Marrakesh's bustling Djemaa El-Fna square.
Their
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Police on Thursday arrested 17 more suspects in the Western Sahara port city of Dakhla after clashes on Sunday following a football match that left seven dead, provincial authorities said.
The 17 suspects came on top of eight arrested on Tuesday, which brings to 25 the number of people held in connection with the violence, in
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived Thursday to kick off work on Africa's fastest rail line, in a bid to highlight France's role in the project.
He was met at Tangiers airport by King Mohammed VI ahead of the joint launch of the 350-kilometer (219-mile) project linking the northern port city with Casablanca to the south via
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Dakhla — Seven people, including two law enforcement officers, were killed, on Sunday in Dakhla, in violent incidents following a football match between Chabab Al-Mohammadia and local Mouloudia, authorities said.
Just after the end of the game, three people were intentionally killed after being run over by four wheel drives vehicles with people with criminal records
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Rabat — Morocco's security services have broken up a three-member terrorist cell called "Escadron Al Battar", the Interior Ministry reported on Friday in a statement.
The statement added that among the members of the dismantle cell is an ex-convict under the anti-terror law, and that it was led by one of the most active individuals on
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The trial of nine Moroccans for a bomb attack that ripped through a Marrakesh cafe packed with European tourists five months ago resumed on Thursday with bereaved relatives in attendance.
Seventeen people were killed and dozens wounded in the April 28 blast on Marrakesh's bustling Djemaa El-Fna square for which main suspect Adil El-Atmani and his
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Morocco's immigration policy and its efforts to fight illegal immigration were highlighted on Monday during an international conference on asylum and immigration held at the UK Parliament in London.
Morocco was represented at the event by President of the committee in charge of domestic, decentralization and infrastructure at the House of Representatives, Ahmed Touhami who told
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