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At least 21 people are killed during a heat wave in Beni Mellal, Morocco.
2024-07-25

Preliminary results show the National Rally of Independents party led by Aziz Akhannouch winning a plurality in the House of Representatives, defeating the ruling Justice and Development Party of Prime Minister Saadeddine Othmani.
2021-09-9

Morocco begins its COVID-19 vaccination campaign with King Mohammed VI receiving the first dose.
2021-01-28

Morocco receives half a million doses of the Sinopharm vaccine.
2021-01-27

Morocco's state-run news agency Maghreb Arabe Press reports that King Mohammed VI has undergone successful heart surgery in Rabat; the king underwent a similar surgery two years ago in Paris.
2020-06-14

Moroccan journalist Hajar Raissouni and her husband Rifaat al-Amin are each jailed for a year by a Rabat court for premarital sex and unlawful abortion, with doctor Mohammed Jamal Belkeziz receiving two years for carrying an abortion out. Her lawyer claims the evidence was fabricated to dissuade Raissouni and others from criticising the government. Observers including Amnesty International criticise the verdicts.
2019-09-30

Morocco suspends contact with the European Union over a European court ruling that invalidates the bloc's farm trade deal with Rabat, and saying it should exclude the disputed Moroccan-controlled territory of Western Sahara.
2016-02-25

Floods caused by torrential rain result in 32 deaths in southern Morocco.
2014-11-24

Moroccan interior minister Taieb Cherkaoui says the bomb detonated in Marrakech was set off remotely.
2011-04-30

Morocco is to close 1,250 mosques deemed to be unsafe following the collapse of a minaret at the Bab Berdieyinne Mosque in February.
2010-08-10