20110428
Reuters
RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco's King Mohammed has ordered public and private sector wage and pension rises also benefit the army, paramilitary police, auxiliary forces and civil rescue services.

20110425
reuters

RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco's government has agreed to raise public sector salaries and the minimum wage as growing demands for reform put pressure on the Arab world's longest-serving dynasty.

20110423
reuters

CASABLANCA, Morocco (Reuters) - Thousands took to the streets of Morocco on Sunday in peaceful demonstrations to demand sweeping reforms and an end to political detention, the third day of mass protests since they began in February.

20110408
reuters

RABAT (Reuters) - A youth-led protest movement in Morocco said on Friday it would boycott an invitation to present its ideas for political reform to a constitutional review panel, branding the exercise a sham.

20110215
reuters

RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco said Algeria and the Polisario Front, which wants independence for Western Sahara, may use political upheavals sweeping some countries in the Arab world to stir unrest in the disputed desert region.

20110204
reuters
RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco said on Thursday it was not worried about opposition plans for a peaceful protest later this month to press for reforms in the monarchy and the resignation of the government.

20110124
xinhua

UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Little progress has been made as the latest round of the United Nations-sponsored informal talks on West Sahara concluded Sunday in New York's Long Island.

20110107
UN News

The United Nations refugee agency announced today that its programme to facilitate family visits for Western Sahara refugees who have been separated for more than 30 years has resumed.

20110107
xinhuda

Twenty-seven suspected terrorists recently smashed by the Moroccan security forces have links "with extremists of different nationalities in European countries," the Moroccan Interior Minister said Wednesday.

20101220
SAPA


Pretoria — Police were called in to stop clashes between delegates from Morocco and Western Sahara at the 17th World Festival of Youth and Students on Sunday.

20101219
reuters

MANHASSET, New York (Reuters) - Morocco and Western Sahara's independence movement agreed on Saturday to speed up talks next year on the disputed territory but remained at odds over its future status, a U.N. mediator said.

20101219
UN News

Delegations from Morocco and the Frente Polisario have attended a fourth round of informal talks in New York on ending the conflict in Western Sahara at the invitation of the personal envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General.

20101219
africanews

Amnesty International has condemned the Spanish authorities' decision to forcibly return a man accused of terrorism-related offences to Morocco where he faces the risk of torture, incommunicado detention and unfair trial, the organisation said in a statement on Friday.

20101219
africanews

Morocco and the Western Sahara rebel group, the Polisario Front, have resumed talks on the future of the disputed north African territory, AFP reported.

20101210
UN News

The next round of informal talks between the parties to the conflict over Western Sahara will take place from 16 to 18 December in New York, the United Nations announced today.

20101203
africanews

About 5,319 HIV/AIDS cases were reported in Morocco at the end of September, with young women aged 15-24 making up 62 per cent of cases.

20101128
HRW

Moroccan security forces repeatedly beat and abused people they detained following disturbances on November 8, 2010, in the Western Sahara capital city of El-Ayoun, Human Rights Watch said today. Security forces also directly attacked civilians, a Human Rights Watch investigation showed. The Moroccan authorities should immediately end the abuse of detainees, and carry out an independent investigation into the abuse, Human Rights Watch said.

20101109
reuters

RABAT (Reuters) - Moroccan security forces were deployed in large numbers in Western Sahara on Tuesday, residents said, after deadly clashes put the dispute over the Moroccan-controlled territory under international scrutiny.

20101106
U.S. Western Sahara Foundation

Representatives of American non-governmental organizations and human rights activists sent a letter today to President Barack Obama requesting his immediate help to protect the lives of the Sahrawis in Moroccan-Occupied Western Sahara. Protesting their treatment as second class citizens in their own homeland, the Sahrawis have left the city of El Aaiun to set up a tent camp. They are now surrounded by the Moroccan army which is denying them food and water and restricting access by journalists and international observors. Already a fourteen year old Sahrawi boy has been shot and killed by the Morrocan army.

20101105
africanews

Five Israelis - four tourists and a guide - were hurt in an accident in Morocco after a moving tour bus they were sitting in hit a passing truck near the city of Marrakesh - southwestern Morocco.