Press freedom is under threat in Morocco as the latest of a string of journalists is sentenced for publishing alleged falsehoods about the King; Pollution threatens Morocco's beautiful beaches as laws passed to protect them are ignored.
A Moroccan caricaturist, Khalid Gueddar, is sued for having insulting a cousin of the King and the national flag. Isn't it an attempt to the freedom of the press in a State regarded as tolerant and modern by the Western countries?
In this edition: A Moroccan journalist is jailed for a year for publishing articles about the King's health, Tunisia's election campaign and Sharia adoptions in Algeria.
The editor at the Arabic-language Moroccan weekly Al Michaâl was sentenced to a year in prison by a Rabat court on Thursday for publishing articles suggesting the king (pictured) was in poorer health than the palace admitted.
A French author, Georges Fleury, says secret police documents reveal that the body of Moroccan activist Mehdi Ben Barka was incinerated in the Essonne, south of Paris, after he was abducted in the French capital in 1965.
In this edition: Libyan leader Muammar Ghaddafi has helped negotiate a peace accord with Tuhareg rebels from Mali and Niger ; and Morocco's slums are still squalid five years after the launch of an anti-poverty programme.
In this edition: Libyan leader Muammar Ghaddafi has helped negotiate a peace accord with Tuhareg rebels from Mali and Niger ; and Morocco's slums are still squalid five years after the launch of an anti-poverty programme.
In this edition: Interpol releases arrest warrants for four officials wanted in connection with the kidnapping of politician Ben Barka back in the 1960s; press censorship in Morocco; a focus on Algeria's Socialist Forces Front.
France has suspended the international arrest warrants it issued Friday for four Moroccans over the 1965 abduction of a high-profile opponent to Morocco's then King Hassan II, an event that has embarrassed the two nations for four decades.
in this edition: Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi's rambling performance at the UN assembly; the end of Ramadan gets pricey in the economic crisis; Moroccan wine is starting to rival European bottles.
