Reporters Without Borders calls on the Moroccan authorities to reverse their decision to stop the pan-Arab satellite TV news station Al-Jazeera from broadcasting a daily news programme covering the Maghreb countries from its studios in the Moroccan capital Rabat.

To mark World Press Freedom Day, Moroccan journalist Mustafa Hormatallah began a three-day hunger strike today to protest his imprisonment in Casablanca, while journalists led by the National Syndicate of the Moroccan Press planned to stage a sit-in on Saturday.

Five Nigerian boxers to the forthcoming Beijing Olympics has been given another chance to prove their class at the World Championships in Morocco.

The Security Council today extended until 30 April 2009 the mandate of the United Nations mission in Western Sahara (MINURSO), tasked with monitoring the ceasefire between Morocco and the Frente Polisario and organizing a referendum on self-determination.

Rwanda's opponents in the 2010 World/Africa qualifiers, Morocco are set to announce a new coach for their national football this week, the country's football association has confirmed.

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Angola attended last Saturday a display of gastronomy called "Le plus grand buffet des plats du monde" (the biggest buffet of world dishes), held at the esplanade of Hilton Hotel in Rabat, Morocco.