20120429 AFP Relatives and friends of the 17 people killed in a Marrakech cafe bombing a year ago on Saturday marked the first anniversary of their death by releasing a dove in memory of each of them.
20120418 AFP The United Nations stepped up complaints about Morocco's tactics in Western Sahara as the UN Security Council on Tuesday held its annual talks on efforts to end deadlock over the territory's future.
20120322 Press TV Thousands of protesters have held a demonstration in the Moroccan capital of Rabat to demand an end to official corruption and poverty.
20120318 AFP Some 200 Moroccan women staged an angry protest outside parliament Saturday, a week after the suicide of a 16-year-old girl who was forced to marry the man who had raped her.
20120317 AFP A minister in Morocco's Islamist government on Thursday called for a change to a law allowing a rapist to marry his victim after a 16-year-old teenager forced into such a union committed suicide.
20120317 AFP Atop a remote mountain overlooking one of Africa's largest silver mines, a group of Moroccan activists -- many of them women and children -- are trying to choke off the facility's water supply.
20120310 AFP A Moroccan appeal court confirmed a death sentence Friday against the mastermind of the April 2011 Marrakesh bombing that killed 17 people, and handed a death sentence to one of the others convicted.
20120225 AFP The United Nations plans to host negotiations between Western Sahara rebels and the Moroccan government from March 11 through March 13, a UN spokesman said Friday.
20120220 AFP Hundreds of demonstrators Sunday marked the first anniversary of a reform movement, born of last year's Arab Spring, amid calls for more democracy in the Moroccan kingdom.
20120205 AFP Morocco on Saturday freed a former world kickboxing champion, Zakaria Moumni, jailed 17 months ago on charges of racketeering, after he was pardoned by King Mohamed VI.
20120125 AFP An unemployed Moroccan graduate died on Tuesday, almost a week after he set himself ablaze in a horrific act that has become synonymous with discontent in the Arab world.
20120120 Reuters RABAT (Reuters) - Moroccan authorities should draft laws to criminalise the use of torture by some security officials, activists from a group of human right organisations said on Thursday.
20120104 AFP Morocco's King Mohammed VI on Tuesday named a new government dominated by moderate Islamists who won polls the monarch called early to abort protests inspired by the Arab Spring.
20111220 Reuters (Reuters) - An Islamist group seen as the main opposing force to Morocco's monarchy has suspended its involvement in a movement inspired by revolts in Tunisia and Egypt, citing the need for a new deal with secularist activists to bolster its ideology.
20111212 Press TV Moroccan protesters have once again taken to streets in more than 30 cities across the northeast African state to demand political reforms and a real democracy, Press TV reports.
20111211 Reuters (Reuters) - The man set to become Morocco's first Islamist prime minister said Friday his government would not try to make women dress more modestly.
20111130 Reuters (Reuters) - The election victory of Morocco's Islamist PJD party will give it a chance to tackle the country's social and economic problems - but it will not be able to force through change without the support of the still-omnipotent monarchy.
20111128 Reuters (Reuters) - Morocco's parliamentary election shows most people are not interested in King Mohammed's reforms, the main opposition group said, vowing to push ahead with protests to press for a constitutional monarchy and an end to corruption.
