Mars starts using animal products

Some of the UK’s best-selling chocolate bars, such as Mars and Twix, will no longer be suitable for vegetarians. Also affecting brands such as Snickers and Maltesers, owner Masterfoods said it had started to use animal product rennet to make its chocolate products.
Masterfoods said the change was due to it switching the sourcing of its [...]

Ex-French President Chirac, wife celebrate Christmas in Morocco

Former French President, Jacques Chirac, and his wife Bernadette, who arrived in Southern Morocco since Sunday, will be spending Christmas there, reliable sources told PANA here Monday.
Chirac and his wife are currently in Taroudant (700 km south of Rabat) where the French couple has a private residence.
Over the past few years, the couple had regularly [...]

US may sell 24 Lockheed fighters to Morocco

WASHINGTON, Dec 19 (Reuters) – The Bush administration has told Congress of plans to sell Morocco 24 Lockheed Martin Corp F-16C/D fighter aircraft, advanced weapons and related gear valued at up to $2.4 billion.
The sale would boost Morocco’s ability to help in the U.S.-declared global war on terrorism and enhance Morocco’s ability to defend itself, [...]

King Hamad visits Morocco

RABAT: His Majesty King Hamad arrived in Rabat yesterday on a private visit to Morocco, during which he will meet King Mohammed VI.
He was received at Rabat airport by Prince Mawlai Rasheed, Rabat Governor Hassan Al Omrani, Bahrain’s Ambassador to Morocco Shaikh Khalid bin Salman bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, Moroccan officials and Bahrain embassy staff.

Senegal recalls ambassador from Morocco over W. Sahara spat: report

 jacques baudin
DAKAR (AFP) — Senegal recalled its ambassador from Morocco “for consultations” Saturday in a dispute over the disputed Western Sahara, media reports said.
Morocco pulled its ambassador out of Dakar this week in protest at comments about Western Sahara by a Senegalese opposition member.
“The recall of Morocco’s ambassador to Senegal was an unfriendly gesture to [...]

Spain’s top court recognizes Saharawis as stateless people

Madrid – Spain’s Supreme Court has recognized a Western Saharawi woman as stateless because the Moroccan nationality cannot be “imposed” on her, court sources said Wednesday. The ruling opens the door for other Saharawis to seek a similar recognition in Spain. Some 200,000 Saharawis are living in camps in Algerian Tindouf, which received an influx [...]

Abdelaziz Ahnafouf criticcaly injures

Arminia Bielefeld striker Abdelaziz Ahanfouf, 29, was critically injured in a car crash on a motorway on Monday evening, the club said on its website. The club quoted a police report saying his car crashed into a truck from the Netherlands and that the fire brigade was needed to extract him from the car after it [...]

quotation of the day

“The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything.” 
–Albert Einstein

Parents Want Justice For Son After Arrest

By ELAINE SILVESTRINI, The Tampa Tribune
Published: December 15, 2007
TAMPA – Hamou Moussaoui and Anissa Zekkari came to the United States from Morocco on Wednesday, proud parents, eagerly anticipating their son’s graduation from the University of South Florida with three degrees.
On Thursday morning, their world turned upside down. They were thrust, they said, into hell.
“Instead of [...]

Bosnia: Divided We Stand

BY Najlae Benmbarek
and Durrell Dawson
“Divided We Stand,” FRONTLINE/World’s latest story from Bosnia-Herzegovina, is a departure from our past Bosnia coverage. As always it starts by recalling the tragedy of the civil war in the 1990s, but this time we focus on young people, a new post-war generation looking for ways to move on.
The [...]

Stealth campaign underway to name late Moroccan king as righteous gentile

By Marc Perelman, The Forward
RABAT, MOROCCO – Morocco and Israel have a longstanding relationship veiled in secrecy, one involving quiet diplomatic initiatives and discreet intelligence cooperation. So it is only fitting that it is a stealth campaign that is pushing to have a former king of Morocco become the first Arab admitted to Yad Vashem’s [...]

Morocco: Overturn Verdicts for Homosexual Conduct

(New York, December 12, 2007) – The criminal verdicts in Morocco against six men sentenced to prison for homosexual conduct should be set aside and the men released, Human Rights Watch said today.
The court of first instance in Ksar el-Kbir, a small city about 120 kilometers south of Tangiers, convicted the men on December 10 [...]

Former Algeria Boss Cavalli Takes Over At Wydad Casablanca

Former Algeria boss Jean-Michel Cavalli has taken over as boss of Moroccan outfit Wydad AC of Casablanca.
The Reds failed to defend their 2005-06 title last season, finishing a disappointing fourth, meaning that the door was open for a new boss to take over after a similarly disappointing start to the current campaign.
Cavalli, given his experience [...]

Ramiz narrates ordeals of his illegal journey to Morocco

Ramiz Uddin, an unfortunate Bangladeshi, finally returned to home after walking hundreds of miles for 26 days on foreign lands. After facing untold sufferings on way to Spain, his destination to change the luck that he could not reach. Finally he decided to return home and went to Bangladesh Embassy at Raba, Morocco.
Narrating his long [...]

Lebanon bomb kills senior general

James Sturcke and agencies
Wednesday December 12, 2007
Guardian Unlimited
The man tipped to be the next head of Lebanon’s army, Brig Gen Francois Hajj, was killed today by a car bomb in a Beirut suburb.
Three others died with Hajj as they drove through a Christian suburb of the Lebanese capital in the early morning, authorities [...]

Double bomb blasts kill 26 in Alger

Latest reports say a Senegalese and a Danish citizen were among the 26 killed Tuesday morning in a double bomb blast which injured 177 others in the Algerian capital, Algers, an interior ministry statement quoted by the country’s press agency (APS) reports.
The Senegalese national was a UN official working in the Algerian capital city, the [...]

Sheik Talal Nasser al-Sabah, a nephew of the Emir of Kuwait ,sentenced to death

Sheik Talal Nasser al-Sabah, a nephew of the Emir of Kuwait,who severed the penis of a very popular egyptian singer,was sentenced to death by Kuwaiti judicial authorities .He was found guilty of heroin trafficking …..

leonardo dicaprio enjoying the moroccan sun

Morocco: Newspaper Forced to Alter Front Page for Fear of Censorship

Reporters sans Frontières (Paris)
PRESS RELEASE
10 December 2007
Reporters Without Borders has expressed its concern when the printers of the “Journal Hebdomadaire” forced its management to change its front page photo and others inside for fear the edition would be seized if it was printed as it was.
Managing editor, Ali Amar, changed photos illustrating a feature on [...]

The Third Root – Morocco Video Teaser

Excerpts from The Third Root – Morocco Documentary. A story that travels through Mexico, Spain, and Morocco with Mexican Guitarist, Camilo Nu. Camilo performs with musicians along the way as he searches the roots of Mexican music.
http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1336779311

Full text of King Mohammed VI to the 2nd EU-Africa Summit hosted by Lisbon

Lisbon, Dec. 8 – Following is the full text of the speech of King Mohammed VI to the 2nd EU-Africa Summit in Lisbon, read out on his behalf by Prime Minister Abbas El Fassi.
Praise be to God                Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, His Kith and Kin
Mr. President,
Distinguished Heads of State and Government,
Your Excellencies,
Ladies [...]

Dutch Greefa to deliver two sorting machines to Kabbage Souss, Morocco

Tholen – Last week, Greefa, a Dutch producer of packaging and sorting machines, signed a contract in Morocco. Greefa will deliver two sorting machines of the Greefa SmartSort type to the Moroccan company Tariq Kabbage. Henk Pagrach  of Greefa signed the contract with Tariq Kabbage, main shareholder of Domaines Kabbage and Station Kabbage Souss, president [...]

Banyan Tree enters Morocco

Banyan Tree brand Angsana has moved into Morocco as it continues to open more hotels outside of its traditional Asian market.
The luxury hotel company officially opened five out of seven of its Riad Collection around Marrakech. All of the Riads have between five and eight rooms and have been restored in Moroccan style.
Banyan Tree executive chairman [...]

Gay marriage in Ksar lekbir,Morocco once again

 we were accused by a  moroccan newspaper , al ahdath, of inventing the story of the gay marriage in Ksar lekbir, Morocco and that we wrote about something we did not know about….This newspaper ,and all the francophone moroccan press,has maintained that such marriage has never taken  place and that some islamists have invented the whole story [...]

Hey big spender: the £3m spree that landed a Saudi prince in a London court

 Saudi ambassador Prince Mohammed bin Nawwaf bin Abdul Aziz. Photograph: Martin Argles

David Leigh and Rob Evans
Friday November 16, 2007
The Guardian
It is a remarkable shopping list by any standards. And it has landed the Saudi ambassador to Britain with a possible £3m debt, and the embarrassment of having allegations about the ostentatious spending habits of [...]

A kosher hotel takes root in Marrakech

                                the ogre city
By Romina Ruiz-Goiriena
MARRAKECH, MOROCCO
When Moroccan-born Israeli chef Mordechai Perez decided to visit Marrakech to search for his roots, he had no idea that he would also be making a career move. In short order, he would find himself the chief chef of Marrakech’s first-ever kosher hotel and restaurant, slated to open its [...]

Naqniq, R. I. P.

xymphora published these bad news…good news…..bad news because a human being was prevented from expressing himself/herself freely…..bad news because we all know why this blog was suspended and who was behind this evil act….next time don’t bring the old same story about democracy and Human Rights  and human lefts……..this blog was not suspended in iran, [...]

3,5 tons of hashish seized in Morocco

One person suspected of smuggling drugs was killed, and 3,5 tons of hashish were seized by the Moroccan army fleet near Al-Hoseima in the north-eastern part of the country, it was officially announced.
The suspect, whose identity was not revealed, was killed in a boat in which he transported 120 packages of hashish, the royal fleet [...]

Leonardo Dicaprio honoured with Golden Star Award in Morocco

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio received an honorary award from director Martin Scorsese at the opening of the seventh Marrakesh Film Festival in Morocco.
At the award ceremony Martin lavished praise on the actor as he presented him with a Golden Star Award on Dec 7.He complimented the ‘Titanic’ star for “always working till he breaks through the [...]

An Islamist prisoner brought a woman secretly in his cell

     A Moroccan  Islamist jailed in the prison of Ain Borja, Casablanca has managed to bring  a young woman  in his cell and have sex with her…   The woman  spent two days with the prisoner , who is by the way a member of the Salafiya Jihadia movement, before  she was` discovered.’ This is the [...]