http://www.news24.com/Tags/Places/morocco Argotic Syndication Framework, http://www.codeplex.com/argotic http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:25:21 +0200 A Moroccan editor has been handed a two month suspended prison sentence for defamation, after writing that an Islamist minister had organised a lavish, alcohol-fuelled dinner during an official trip abroad. http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Morocco-editor-convicted-for-defamation-20130617 Western Sahara’s pro-independence leader is pressing for greater UN involvement in the territorial dispute after a US proposal for human rights monitoring floundered. http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Western-Sahara-calls-for-more-UN-interest-20130611 The annual Economic Outlook programme predicts that Africa's economy will grow by 4.8% this year and accelerate to 5.3% in 2014. http://www.fin24.com/Economy/Africas-economy-will-grow-study-20130531 At least five illegal migrants have drowned off the coast of northern Morocco as they were attempting to reach Spain, the Moroccan authorities say. http://www.news24.com/World/News/5-migrants-drown-trying-to-reach-Spain-20130521-3 Two young Moroccan men have been jailed by a court in Temara for four months for being homosexuals, one of their lawyers says. http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/2-Moroccans-jailed-for-homosexuality-20130520 Scores of African migrants stormed a border fence from Morocco into Spanish territory, leaving seven injured, in the latest in a series of desperate crossing attempts. http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Migrants-storm-Spanish-fence-20130514 King Mohammed V of Morocco has urged the conservative Istiqlal party to go back on a decision to pull out from the Islamist-led government. http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Morocco-king-urges-party-to-stay-on-20130512 Hundreds of pro-independence Sahrawi activists have marched in Laayoune, Western Sahara in the biggest such protest in recent decades. http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Big-independence-demo-in-West-Sahara-20130506 Morocco's interior ministry says it had arrested two "terrorist" cells in the northern Nador region who were in contact with Islamist extremists in Mali. http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Morocco-arrests-terror-cells-20130505 Western Saharan demonstrators have clashed with Moroccan police after the UN renewed a peacekeeping resolution that they say didn’t adequately address human rights abuses. http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Morocco-UN-resolution-sparks-clashes-20130429 Opposition from France and Morocco has forced the US to abandon a proposal to monitor human rights in the disputed territory of Western Sahara, the UN says. http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/No-rights-monitoring-in-Western-Sahara-20130424 Morocco's main Islamist opposition group says the country is run by a shadow government and warned dire social and economic conditions could cause "explosion" among disaffected youths. http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Morocco-opposition-warn-of-explosion-20130424 The Algeria-Morocco border, closed for two decades amid deadlock over the Western Sahara, is a pressing issue that could be resolved soon, an official says. http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Morocco-border-issue-may-be-resolved-soon-20130421 A fatwa published this week by Morocco's higher council of religious scholars calling for the death penalty for Muslims who renounce their faith has sparked fierce controversy in the country. http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Morocco-death-for-apostates-fatwa-20130418 Eleven migrants trying to reach Europe have died after their boat capsized off the north coast of Morocco. http://www.news24.com/World/News/11-die-after-boat-capsizes-off-Morocco-20130417 Morocco has cancelled its annual military exercises with the US after the Obama administration backed having the UN monitor human rights in the disputed territory of Western Sahara, officials say. http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Morocco-cancels-war-games-with-US-20130417-3 A Moroccan court has cut the jail term of a Sahrawi activist convicted of terrorism, whose confession was allegedly extracted under torture, from 10 to six years on appeal, witnesses say. http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Jail-term-for-Sahrawi-activist-reduced-20130415 A young Canadian man who headed to North Africa to study the Quran is now serving two years in a Mauritanian prison after authorities say he was recruited to train at an al-Qaeda camp in northern Mali. http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Terror-Canadian-convicted-in-Mauritania-20130411 Morocco's parliament speaker has accused Israel of arrogance for having barred two Moroccan MPs in an EU-led parliamentary team from entering the West Bank to meet Palestinian officials. http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Morocco-accuses-Israel-of-arrogance-20130409 The Moroccan government says it will suspend $1.75bn of public investment funds to help balance an overstretched budget amid tough economic times. http://www.fin24.com/Economy/Morocco-suspends-175bn-as-crisis-weighs-20130405