Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
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) | 11/02/2009
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) | 11/02/2009
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...
IOL (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Prince Moulay Rachid, younger brother of Morocco's King Mohammed VI, has been admitted to hospital in Paris after taking ill on a flight.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
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...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Rabat - Morocco's King Mohammed VI, who chairs the Islamic Conference's al-Quds (Jerusalem) committee, has condemned the recent clashes between Israeli security forces and Muslims near Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque. Moroccan newspapers Tuesday quoted a ...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Deposed Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haneya Monday called on the Organization of the Islamic Conference(OIC) to convene its al-Quds (Jerusalem) committee urgently. Haneya's call were made a day after nearly a dozen of Palestinians were wounded in clashes with Jewish worshippers who broke into the yard of al-Aqsa mosque, a sensitive Muslim holy site in the Old City of Jerusalem. In a statement sent to...
Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
"Morocco's Mohammed VI chartered a Hercules transporter from his air force to whisk the DB7 from Rabat to Britain." (thanks Zaki)
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 09/14/2009
At least five Moroccan independent journalists will appear before a judge later this month in Rabat, after having published articles challenging the official announcement about King Mohammed VI's health. It is believed the monarch has contracted "a viral, benign disease." Bloggers have been debating this issue, mostly denouncing the attacks on journalists.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 08/27/2009
The Moroccan royal palace says a doctor has ordered King Mohammed VI placed in convalescence for five days for a digestive infection.
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 08/27/2009
The Moroccan royal palace says a doctor has ordered King Mohammed VI placed in convalescence for five days for a digestive infection.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 08/27/2009
RABAT, Morocco -- The Moroccan royal palace says a doctor has ordered King Mohammed VI placed in convalescence for five days for a digestive infection.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/14/2009
MOROCCO is an ancient civilisation with an existing 17th Century monarchy. The current King Mohammed VI who is 45, celebrated his 10th year on the throne from July 23, the exact date of his coronation, into early August, 2009.
greta's links (Free subscription) | 08/08/2009
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France24 (Free subscription) | 08/04/2009
In a FRANCE 24 interview, Morocco's Minister of Communication Khalid Naciri explains the government's decision to ban two magazines which published an opinion poll on the first decade of rule from the north African country's King Mohammed VI.
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