Morocco urged to probe fatal migrant boat sinking (AlertNet)
Fri, 09 May 2008 14:55:04 GMT
Source: Reuters RABAT, May 9 (Reuters) - U.S.-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged Morocco on Friday to investigate media reports that its navy had sunk a boat carrying illegal migrants, causing up to 33 people to ...

Morocco Reveals Strategy to Explore Oil Amid Spiking Oil Prices (Rigzone)
Fri, 09 May 2008 15:53:47 GMT
Hopes to find oil in Morocco was revived as the government has revealed a four-fold strategy to explore for oil in different parts of the country, state MAP news agency reported on Thursday.

Media watchdog urges Morocco to lift Jazeera ban (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Thu, 08 May 2008 14:48:19 GMT
A U.S.-based press freedom watchdog called on Morocco on Thursday to lift a ban preventing the Al Jazeera television network from broadcasting a daily news program focusing on north Africa from its Moroccan studios.

Morocco denies sinking refugee vessel (Radio Netherlands)
Fri, 09 May 2008 08:20:27 GMT
Ten African refugees drowned when their inflatable dinghy sank off the coast of Morocco. Did the Moroccan navy puncture their boat, as claimed by survivors, or was it an unfortunate accident?

ITFC inks $129m financing deals with Morocco, Tunisia (MENAFN)
Fri, 09 May 2008 06:03:12 GMT
ITFC inks $129m financing deals with Morocco, Tunisia

Media watchdog urges Morocco to lift Al Jazeera ban (Stuff)
Thu, 08 May 2008 21:15:36 GMT
A US-based press freedom watchdog called on Morocco to lift a ban preventing the Al Jazeera television network from broadcasting a daily news programme focusing on north Africa from its Moroccan studios.

Morocco foils hashish smuggling (News 24 South Africa)
Thu, 08 May 2008 11:04:05 GMT
Moroccan police have seized a twin-engine aircraft as it was attempting to pick up hashish from a clandestine airstrip in northern Morocco, officials say.

34 clandestine immigrants seized in Morocco: official (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Tue, 06 May 2008 19:14:29 GMT
Police in Morocco Tuesday arrested 34 Africans as they boarded an inflatable dinghy to try to cross the Mediterranean secretly to Europe, local officials said.

Dulko Outlasts Medina Garrigues for Fes Title (WTA Tour)
Fri, 09 May 2008 15:25:18 GMT
FÈS, Morocco - Two of the game's most dangerous clay court players made their way into the final of the $145,000 Grand Prix de SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem, and once there they continued to show why they are such a threat on the surface.

Morocco denies migrant drowning (BBC News)
Thu, 08 May 2008 09:09:22 GMT
Moroccan authorities deny its soldiers deliberately punctured and sank a boat with migrants going to Spain.