A Moroccan family flees Tindouf, and goes back to the homeland 9/24/2007
Answering the royal appeal “the homeland is clement and merciful”, a Moroccan, family of eight native persons of the southern provinces of the kingdom of Morocco went back Sunday evening to the homeland flying Tindouf camps south of Algeria. In a statement to the “Maghreb Arabe Press” Mr Hamdi Ould Lagouini, father of the family, belonging to the Rguibat Ahl Sidi Allal tribe asserted that his return is an answer to the royal appeal to live among his own family in a stability and dignity.
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King appoints conservative Abbas el Fassi Prime Minister 9/21/2007
King Mohammed VI of Morocco on Wednesday appointed Abbas El Fassi, leader of the Istiqlal (Independence) Party, Prime Minister. Mr. El Fassi, 67, whose conservative party won the September 7 legislative elections with 52 seats, was appointed in replacement of Mr. Driss Jettou, a technocrat who led the outgoing government since the 2002 polls. A press release from the King's Office said that the monarch has
entrusted the new Prime Minister with holding "wide-scale
consultations" with the different political parties to come up
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Morocco is a respectful country to the principle of human rights, at home in the southern provinces 9/19/2007
Morocco is a respectful country to the principle of human rights, at home in the southern provinces, different delegations who went to the Sahara have been able to circulate freely, and noticed closely the peaceful life in the region, underlined the Moroccan ambassador , and permanent representative at the UN in Geneva Mr Mohamed Loulichki; In an explanation before the human rights council after a one-sided intervention of the representative of an NGO in favour of the opponents of Moroccan territorial integrity,
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New exchange of family visits from and to SMARA province 9/17/2007
The process of exchange of family visits led by the high commission of refugees (HCR) betweenTindouf camps, south of Algeria, and south of Morocco’s provinces was revived last Friday by organizing the thirty one travel, from and to the province of SMARA. This revival of the process of family visits happens after a month suspension for logistic reasons according to a statement by the Moroccan coordination office with the MINURSO, indicating that the present exchange has known the participation of 68 beneficiaries belonging to 19 families.
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The chairman of the CORCAS meets a high-ranking Danish official 9/13/2007
The chairman of the CORCAS Mr Khalihenna Ould Errachid held discussions, yesterday afternoon at the council’s headquarters in Rabat with the head of the middle –east and North Africa department at the Danish foreign affairs ministry. Mr Thomas Anker Christiensen. At the time of this meeting, the Chairman
of the CORCAS explained the mission and goals of the council, which aim
at the promotion of an overall reconciliation between all Sahraouis
whether they are inside or outside the Kingdom of Morocco.
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