Africa: Morocco

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gives a press conference in Portugal, before heading to Morocco. By PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA (AFP)

Pompeo brings Iran pressure campaign to Morocco

Dec 6, 2019

The United States and Morocco discussed efforts to isolate Iran, officials said Thursday, as Secretary of State Mike Pom ...

Pompeo arrives for his first visit to Morocco

Dec 5, 2019

Top US diplomat Mike Pompeo visited Morocco on Thursday as the highest-ranking American official to travel there since t ...

Tunisian security forces check the debris of a bus that plunged over a cliff into a ravine in northern Tunisia. By Fethi Belaid (AFP)

Morocco bus crash kills 17

Dec 2, 2019

A bus crash in northern Morocco killed 17 people as the vehicle overturned, the health ministry said Monday, in the seco ...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, seen here in Brussels in November 2019, will visit Morocco and Portugal. By Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD (AFP/File)

Pompeo to visit 'critical partner' Morocco

Nov 27, 2019

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will travel next week to Morocco, seeing the kingdom as a partner in US regional goals ...

The court of Sale near the Morocan capital Rabat. By FADEL SENNA (AFP)

Morocco rapper gets one-year jail for insulting po...

Nov 25, 2019

A Moroccan court on Monday sentenced rapper Mohamed Mounir, known as Gnawi, to one year in jail for insulting police on ...

Morocco rapper faces jail for insulting police

Nov 14, 2019

A Moroccan rapper who co-authored a song criticising the kingdom faces two years in prison after appearing in court Thur ...

Moroccan activist Nasser Zefzafi bangs on a pot during a protest in the northern city of Al-Hoceima on May 6, 2017. By Mohamed el-Asrihi (AFP/File)

Jailed Morocco protest leader decries 'torture', p...

Nov 1, 2019

Morocco's penitentiary administration Friday sacked a prison director afer the detained leader of a protest movement com ...

Spectators watch a match between Palestinian team Hilal al-Quds and Morocco's Raja Casablanca -- the first Moroccan football team to play in the occupied Palestinian territories on October 3, 2019. By ABBAS MOMANI (AFP)

Raja Casablanca first Morocco football team to pla...

Oct 3, 2019

The first Moroccan football team was playing in the occupied Palestinian territories on Thursday, as the head of the Pal ...

Morocco journalist gets 1-year jail for 'illegal a...

Sep 30, 2019

Moroccan journalist Hajar Raissouni was sentenced in a Rabat court Monday to one year in jail for having had an illegal ...

New HIV infections in Morocco have fallen sharply thanks to improved screening, access to treatment and monitoring. By FADEL SENNA (AFP)

Morocco makes headway against HIV but stigma remai...

Sep 27, 2019

In Morocco, the struggle against HIV has been so successful in recent years that campaigners worry about losing funding ...

Detained Moroccan journalist Hajr Raissouni's case has sparked solidarity demonstrations in Morocco. By FADEL SENNA (AFP)

Morocco journalist says police forced her to take ...

Sep 24, 2019

A Moroccan journalist on trial over alleged sexual relations outside marriage and an illegal abortion told a court Mon ...

A young Amazigh couple smile at each other as they wait for their turn at a group wedding in Morocco's Atlas mountains. By FADEL SENNA (AFP)

Berber couples wed in mass Morocco mountain weddin...

Sep 24, 2019

High up in Morocco's Atlas mountains, three dozen young Berber couples gathered for a traditional group wedding to the s ...

Ayoub el Kaabi scores one of his nine goals that helped hosts Morocco win the 2018 African Nations Championship. By Fadel SENNA (AFP)

Defending champions Morocco face Algeria without i...

Sep 20, 2019

Morocco will miss injured stars Ayoub el Kaabi and Mahmoud Benhalib when they begin their defence of the African Nations ...

Moroccan rescuers search for bodies after floods overturned a bus on September 8 in the kingdom's southeast. By - (AFP)

Death toll of Morocco flood-hit bus hits 24

Sep 13, 2019

The death toll from a bus accident caused by flooding in southeast Morocco has risen to 24, authorities said Friday. ...

Demonstrators protested outside a Moroccan court as the trial opened of journalist Hajar Raissouni, accused of having a late-term abortion and sexual relations outside of marriage. By FADEL SENNA (AFP)

Morocco journalist's trial for alleged abortion po...

Sep 10, 2019

The trial of a Moroccan journalist accused of having a late-term abortion and sexual relations outside marriage was post ...

Moroccan rescuers search for bodies after at least 17 people were killed when flood waters overturned their bus in the country's southeast. By - (AFP)

Death toll of Morocco flood-hit bus rises to 17

Sep 10, 2019

At least 17 people were killed in Morocco when flood waters overturned their bus in the kingdom's southeast, authorities ...

Protests as Morocco journalist goes on trial for a...

Sep 9, 2019

Hundreds of people protested Monday in front of a Moroccan court as the trial opened of a journalist accused of having a ...