Sources: Reuters
A Moroccan court sentences a man to five years in prison and fines him US$107,300 for human trafficking after he recruited jobseekers online who were later transported to Myanmar and forced to work in scam centers, marking the country's first conviction involving the recruitment of victims for foreign scam compounds. 2025-11-4
A Moroccan court rejects a request to provisionally release human rights activist Ibtissame Lachgar, who faces blasphemy charges for online content while experiencing serious illness. 2025-08-27
Twenty-four workers die in a flooded illegally-run textile workshop in a private house in Tangier, Morocco, which occurred as a result of intense rains that hit the region. Ten others were rescued and hospitalized. 2021-02-8
Two United Nation peacekeepers, from Gabon and Morocco, are killed in an ambush by anti-balaka insurgents near Bangassou, Central African Republic, according to MINUSCA. 2021-01-18
Morocco's government announces that they will impose a nationwide curfew from 9:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. local time and will require all cafes, shops, supermarkets, and restaurants to close at 8:00 p.m. beginning December 23. In Casablanca, Marrakech, Agadir, and Tangier, all restaurants will be closed for three weeks. 2020-12-21
At least seven spectators have died after a flash flood swept across the pitch at a local match in the village of Tizert, Morocco. 2019-08-29
Approximately fifty migrants are feared drowned off the coast of Morocco. Three men were rescued near Alboran Island near the coast of Spain. 2017-07-4
Morocco is to amend a law allowing rapists to marry their victims. 2012-03-15
King Mohammed VI of Morocco pledges democratic reforms to the country's constitution, after demonstrations last month. 2011-03-9
A coalition of Moroccan youth groups called “The February 20 Movement” calls for peaceful protests in cities throughout the country. 2011-02-20