All Africa (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
In the wake of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's meeting with Moroccan King Mohammed VI last week, a prominent human rights activist was detained on her arrival in Western Sahara, which Morocco controls.
Maghreb Confidential (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
On the day after the 34th anniversary of Morocco’s annexation of Western Sahara, king Mohammed VI fired a broadside against Polisario. (...) [149mots]
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Moroccan King Mohammed VI has announced that Western Sahara, which passed to Moroccan sovereignty in 1975, would be the priority of the country’s renationalisation process via an integrated plan which is expected to usher in a new chapter. The plan seeks to build the capacity of the territory (about 250,000 sq km) to run its local [...]
France 24 (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
A music festival bringing Jews and Muslims together in this windy, walled fishing port, long a crossroads of civilisation, is a step in breaking down political divides, says festival founder Andre Azoulay. Azoulay, a high-profile businessman and advisor to Morocco's King Mohammed VI, who is a player in the Middle East peace process, is the driving force behind the Andalousies Atlantiques festival...
My World Earth (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton prepared to meet Arab foreign ministers on Monday to seek support for resuming Middle East peace talks that Palestinians already say are impossible any time soon. After a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in which Clinton endorsed Israel's view that settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank should not be a bar to resuming negotiations -- contradicting...
Maghreb Confidential (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
By marrying his childhood friend Anika Lehmkuhl, a German commoner whose first name has been changed to the Arabic “Anissa,” prince Moulay Ismail set the spur again to rivalry between king Mohammed VI and the “red prince,” Moulay Hicham, respectively his cousin and his brother. (...) [192mots]
Maghreb Confidential (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
Mohammed VI, the king of Morocco, arrived in Paris on Oct. (...) [82mots]
Feministe (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
A few thoughts: 1. Sorry, Belarus, but you don’t deserve to be that high up on the list. Same with you, Russia. 2. Xanana Gusmao, where have you been all my life? 3. Mohammed VI was robbed.
The Globalista Travel Journal (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
Here at the Globalista offices we’re looking forward to the imminent opening of Le Royal Mansour in Marrakech. Owned by the King of Morocco, Mohammed VI, it looks set to be as opulent as one would expect...
IOL (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Prince Moulay Rachid, younger brother of Morocco's King Mohammed VI, has been admitted to hospital in Paris after taking ill on a flight.
Maghreb Confidential (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
No date has yet been set for the Moroccan king Mohammed VI’s visit to Paris. For the first time ever on Aug. (...) [176mots]
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
A caravan to discuss the Moroccan autonomy project on Western Sahara will travel from 6 November to 25 December to several cities across the country while negotiations on the Sahara are almost at a standstill, a source close to this first time event said Monday in Rabat. Sponsored by King Mohammed VI, the caravan, dubbed “Oui [...]
The New Security Beat (Free subscription) | 05/10/2009
Here in Morocco, where I am attending the IUSSP conference on population , if you never went to elementary school or if you married at a young age, you are likely to have more children. A Bangladeshi couple is more likely to have a third child if they have 0-1 sons, but a European couple is increasingly likely to prefer daughters because they take better care of their aging parents. Globally, a forthcoming...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 04/10/2009
Why visit? King Mohammed VI's recent investment in northern Morocco, with Tangiers as its focus, has rescued the once fashionable resort from festering.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 30/09/2009
Rabat, Morocco - The Moroccan national journalists' trade union SNPM has accused the government of breaking the law in closing the offices of a newspaper that published a caricature of the wedding of a cousin of King Mohammed VI. Such measures were n...
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