Wind and solar power are expected to green up Morocco's energy grid, as the African Development Bank (AfDB) decides to approve two historic loans summing $365 million. The significant amount will help Eskom develop Ouarzazate, its first large-scale project, exploiting the advantages of 500 MW clean solar thermal... |
25 November 2011
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Officials from Desertec Industrial Initiative started talking about their ambitious strategy of opening a solar power plant in Morocco, which will contribute to the development of alternative sources of energy with its initial 150MW capacity, which officials plan to expand to 500MW in a few years.
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1 November 2011
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Trilobites, brachiopods, corals and other sea creatures can be found in abundance in rocks lying in a Moroccan desert. Experts discovered an ancient seabed at this location. The landscape feature is estimated to be about 400 million years old.This means that the lake dried out during the Devonian Period. When this ha... |
11 May 2011
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Elephants are, at this point, the largest land mammals on Earth, and are only surpassed in size by some species of whales, which dwarf them. But they weren't always at the top of the size chart. Dinosaurs and mammoths were just a few of the creatures that made elephants look like babies, but now researchers have... |
23 June 2009
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The brief trial that sent Fouad Mourtada to jail after creating a Facebook profile and impersonating the Moroccan king's younger brother, Prince Moulay Rachid, drew a lot of attention to the African country and the "appalling" human rights conditions there. BBC and CNN both covered the story and caused quite a s... |
20 March 2008
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Earlier this month, I covered the joke that Fouad Mourtada had played by creating a Facebook profile and claiming he was King Mohammed VI's brother, Prince Moulay Rachid. He was swiftly arrested and the jury didn't take its time before coming up with a sentence. And it was a harsh one at that: 3 years in j... |
26 February 2008
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Penalties for identity theft have been regulated and honed on in the past years, ever since the Internet fraud started rising exponentially. Despite the penalties applied and despite all the warnings being issued and widely presented by the media, some people still resort to it.The latest in the row of such crimes is... |
8 February 2008
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Back in May, the popular online video sharing service YouTube was entirely banned in Morocco, but the local authorities refused to confirm or deny the rumors. In fact, it all started from the blog owners who wrote on their pages that YouTube was blocked in their country because several clips were insulting the consti... |
21 June 2007
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YouTube is now available to all the Moroccan users after the ban imposed a few days ago was removed. Although the case was quite important because the online video sharing service was accused for insulting videos, it seems like the ban was caused by a technical problem. According to SFGate.com, the local authorities ... |
30 May 2007
16:31 GMT |
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Google's online video sharing service YouTube became inaccessible for the Moroccan users for what it seems to be a local ban for the entire product. Although there is no official reason for the ban, it seems that a clip posted on YouTube is criticizing the country's king. However, if there is any clip infri... |
28 May 2007
10:08 GMT |
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