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Wednesday, July 28 2010 12:17 |
 Washington / Morocco Board News Service - Young Moroccans in Space Mission at NASA , Huntsville, Alabama, USA 1-6 August 2010. Nothing expresses the youthful spirit of adventure better than the desire to explore the unknown. No role represents this spirit of exploration better than the NASA astronaut.
For 12 young Moroccans and two trainees this dream has become a reality when they will arrive on 31 July at Huntsville in Alabama, USA to participate at a space camp from 1 to 6 August sponsored by the American Department of State.
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Wednesday, July 21 2010 20:28 |
Kamel Labidi
 The Moroccan government has stipulated that all TV networks, “whether Arab or foreign," now require authorization to do TV reporting outside the capital. (Reuters) |
While high-ranking Arab officials are not held accountable for misinforming or misleading the public, critical journalists in their respective countries are increasingly dragged into courts and handed harsh jail sentences following unfair trials for “spreading false news.”
The author of one of the most recent pieces of official misinformation is Moroccan Minister of Communication Khalid Naciri. In a statement to the independent daily Akhbar al-Youm al-Maghrebia, earlier this month he claimed that the draconian restrictions recently imposed on Arab and foreign TV reporting in the Kingdom of Morocco “are also implemented in all democratic countries.”
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Saturday, July 17 2010 17:05 |
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Washington / Morocco Board News Service - A group of Moroccans residents of Belgium have been brutally beaten by Spanish Police at the border post between Morocco and the Spanish occupied city of melilia in North Eastern Morocco. The five victims suffered severe injuries and were taken to a hospital in city of Nador on the Moroccan side .
In a statement, the Moroccan Government “vehemently denounces the physical abuse and violence committed today by the Spanish police” against five Moroccan nationals living in Belgium.
“Such serious violations that are contrary to all rules of ethics were committed by Spanish border police when they found a Moroccan flag in the car of the victims... the Moroccan government emphatically protests against this unacceptable and unjustified act".
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Wednesday, July 14 2010 16:48 |
 Washington / Morocco Board News Service - Moroccan Organizations of human rights on Wednesday urged the Ministry of Islamic Affairs to investigate an imam who has allegedly made "insulting" statements towards the Amazigh language, in a mosque in Rabat. The Amazigh are the native inhabitants of North Africa.
The incendiary sermon was allegedly held after a prayer at the « Al Fath » mosque in the section of Yacoub el Mansour in Rabat.
The ministry defended the imam and denied the veracity of the news.
According to the Moroccan Organization of Human Rights (OMDH), the imam in question has compared the "Amazigh movement" to Zionism in a sermon at a mosque |
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Monday, July 12 2010 13:04 |
Aicha Akalay
 Washington / Morocco Board News Service - Last week, a wave of evictions has befallen the Christian community in Morocco,
bringing the number of deportations to 130.
"Every three months, since the beginning of the year, the Moroccan authorities are expelling Foreign Christians with a vengeance. The novelty now is that they are providing a legal document called "the Order of expulsion of foreign resident " allowing the victims to challenge the decision before a Moroccan court, whereas before no formal written orders were provided ", says member of a Church in the capital city of Rabat who wishes to remain anonymous.
Thus, fifty foreigners have appealed to the Administrative Court "to plead their case and inquire about the reasons for the eviction notice, because the charge of proselytizing is not listed on any document and never pronounced by judges, "explained Moroccan Lawyer Ahmed Dgharni.
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Friday, July 09 2010 15:58 |
Siham Ali
 Morocco must combat corruption by adopting an overall strategy that includes more than just punitive measures, according to the Central Authority for the Prevention of Corruption (ICPC).
"Punishment alone is not enough," ICPC chief Abdesselam Aboudrar said Tuesday (July 6th) in Rabat at the presentation of his group's annual report.
"Tackling the spread of this problem is a responsibility for political, economic and social players alike. We also need to act to raise awareness and to refine our laws," he said.
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Monday, July 05 2010 14:07 |
 Washington / Morocco Board News Service - The Western Sahara Separatist Group, Polisario Front, has lost one of its leaders last week. An official declaration stated that Mr. Mahfoud Ali Beiba died of a heart attack at the age of 57. He was the president of the Saharawi National Council (NSC), the equivalent of a Parliament. However recent information has surfaced that contradicts the official announcement circulated by Algeria’s state Information Agency.
Mr. Beiba who had chaired, since 1997, all Polisario delegations in the negotiations on Western Sahara under the auspices of the United Nations, was actually assassinated, according to a senior Algerian official because he planned to join Morocco, reported the “Algeria Times” publication. He reportedly sent a letter to a Moroccan official, requesting a meeting, The letter was intercepted by Algerian intelligence.
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Friday, July 02 2010 16:46 |
 Washington / Morocco Board News Service - A Casablanca court rendered its verdict last Thursday in the case against reporter Ali Amar by his former partner, Sophie Goldring. The founder of the defunct publication "Le Journal Hebdomadaire, was sentenced to three months suspended sentence. It is a trial " with political Motives ", said the reporter. In addition to the prison sentence , Ali Amar must pay 40,000 dirhams in damages to the plaintiff Ms. Sophie Goldring, plus a 500 dirhams fine to the court.
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TONI BENTLEY
Morocco's ruler builds a palace—with rooms starting at $1,928 a night
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Marrakech, Morocco -- Once upon a time there was a young King of Morocco, who was said to be the seventh richest monarch in the world. King Mohammed VI ascended to the throne in 1999, descendant of more than a 1,000 years of sultans but, being a modern man, he drove his own car, championed women's rights and took only one wife.
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Tuesday, July 20 2010 11:27 |
 Pratt & Whitney said Monday it was awarded a contract valued at roughly $145 million to supply engines to power the Royal Moroccan Air Force's new fleet of F-16 aircraft.
Pratt & Whitney will deliver its F100-PW-229 Enhanced Engine Package engines in 2010 and 2011. The announcement was made at the Farnborough International Airshow, which runs through July 25 at an airfield outside London.
Pratt & Whitney is owned by United Technologies Corp. of Hartford, Conn.
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 Twenty undergraduate women from Egypt and Morocco are spending this month at the University of Kansas to attend a leadership program funded by a $240,000 grant from the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
The KU-hosted “Women’s Civic Leadership from the Heartland,” is part of the State Department’s Study of the U.S. Institutes for Student Leaders, a program designed to promote a better understanding of the United States abroad and develop future world leaders. “Women’s Leadership” is one of the new, focused themes of the institutes that the State Department introduced this year.
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Tuesday, July 13 2010 20:02 |
 Washington / Morocco Board News Service - Welcome to the wonderful world of public toilets in Morocco!
Clogged Toilets, floating garbage ... this is the spectacle offered by The Bitelma Project, a site launched in 2010 to encourage Moroccans to take photos of the nastiest locations and thus shame the operators of the institutions or businesses where the restrooms are located.
Volunteers, who are not squeamish and not afraid to confront odors and collect evidence, fan out, Cameras in hand, like modern-day James Bonds, to hunt for the most neglected toilets in the Kingdom. They visit restaurants, cafes, and schools and investigate the state of public toilettes and push government and private operators to be maintain their premises.
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Friday, July 09 2010 16:56 |
 Washington / Morocco Board News Service - The vast majority of European countries are in the vanguard of the annual corruption ranking by Transparency International. Denmark is number two, followed by Sweden, Switzerland, Finland and the Netherlands. A little further back France is ranked at 24th in, Spain and Portugal are 32 and 35. The last of the larger European countries is Italy, which occupies the 63rd place on the last list published for the year 2009.
The three (North African) Maghreb countries are in positions 65 (Tunisia), 89 (Morocco) and 111 (Algeria), and their respective indices are 4.2 for Tunisia, 3.3 for Rabat and 2.8 for Algeria.
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Wednesday, July 07 2010 13:25 |
 Washington / Morocco Board News Service - No African country has ever reached the final of a World Cup. Morocco has not qualified since 1998. As chance would have it, however, two Moroccans, Khalid Boulahrouz and Ibrahim Afellay, would be the first in a final of a World Cup - in a Holland Orange jersey, of course!
Failing to support Morocco, which failed to qualify for the World Cup, many Moroccan fans had to find other teams to cheer. A good alternative these days is the selection of Holland, which counts in its ranks, the only players from Morocco to compete in this tournament. An additional satisfaction for these fans, the Netherlands, has qualified to play the 2010 World Cup final.
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Monday, July 05 2010 12:42 |
.jpg) Washington / Morocco Board News Service - France and Morocco signed last week a cooperation agreement on civilian nuclear power development. The two countries signed a cooperation agreement for the "development of peaceful uses of nuclear power by Morocco”, which, unlike Algeria, has no gas reserves of oil but produces phosphates that contain the uranium.
Morocco expects to commission its first plant between 2022 and 2024 and aims to do the bidding and contract negotiations between 2011 and 2014.
The agreement "sets the framework for actions that can be made by the two countries especially in technology, safety and training.
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