BBC News
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VIDEO: Ivory Coast: Drumming up support for peace October 22, 2015
The BBC's Christian Parkinson, who covered the civil war in Ivory Coast in 2011, returns to see how Ivorians feel as they prepare for new elections, due to take place on 25 October.
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VIDEO: Inside the permafrost 'time tunnel' October 21, 2015
Environment correspondent Matt McGrath explores a US Army tunnel through permafrost in Alaska.
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VIDEO: Is Russia's Putin turning back the clock? October 21, 2015
The BBC's Steve Rosenberg takes a closer look at what might be motivating Russian President Vladimir Putin's movements on the world stage.
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VIDEO: On board ship hunting migrant smugglers October 21, 2015
Ed Thomas reports from the command ship leading the battle to stop migrant smugglers in the Mediterranean.
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VIDEO: The West's Lockerbie dilemma in Libya October 21, 2015
John Simpson visits the Libyan jail where two new suspects in the Lockerbie bombing case are being held.
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VIDEO: Greek island of Lesbos 'overwhelmed' October 21, 2015
Ian Pannell reports on the still-rising number of migrants arriving in Lesbos - and the strain it is taking on both the authorities and refugees.
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VIDEO: Merkel responds to Holocaust remarks October 21, 2015
German Chancellor Angela Merkel re-affirms her country's responsibility for the Holocaust, following controversial comments by the Israel Prime Minister.
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VIDEO: The monk who wants to walk 2,200km October 21, 2015
A monk in India says he needs eight months to answer a court summons as he will have to walk from one side of the country to the other, due to his faith.
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VIDEO: Migrant boats land at UK base in Cyprus October 21, 2015
Boats carrying 114 people have landed at the RAF base at Akrotiri in Cyprus, the Ministry of Defence says.
– MOROCCO
MOROCCO, a monarchy, is on the Western end of the Maghrab. MOROCCO has a population of about 32 millions people (04/2007), stretches on 459,000 km. MOROCCO also controls the Western Sahara that stretches on 266,000 km and is populated with about 350,000 Arab speaking nomads.
More then 97% in MOROCCO are Muslim Sunnites, about ¾ of the population are from Berber descent and about 11 million are speaking, alongside Arabic, also dialects of Berber.
MOROCCO was in the last centuries in the Western end of the Ottoman Empire as an autonomous Emirat under increasing Western influence from Spain and France. From 1912 most of MOROCCO was under French protectorate.
MOROCCO is an independent country from 03/1956 after a short violent resistance against the French and the local Sultan became the first King of MOROCCO.
Most of the political and economical elite in MOROCCO were alienated to the common Moroccan people. The Elite spoke French, lived in a, so to speak, Western style and were much more attached and related to France and its economy than to the Moroccan needs for education and economical developments.
No wonder that in such an Islamic society the anger, frustration and demands for a greater share in the national sources by the common people got an Islamic interpretation. The true Islam, from the Islamic point of view, is about social justice as well. From the early 80s’ Islamic groups are active in MOROCCO for social justice, against the Western influence of the corrupted elite and also for an Islamic State. Some of the groups advocated violence and they became the breeding ground to extreme Islamic terror groups like the Moroccan Islamic Combat Group – (CICM).
Today (05/2007) MOROCCO has a fast developing economy which eases the social and Islamic tensions in the country.
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04/2011 -BOMB IN MARRAKESH KILLED 16
2003 -MOROCCAN SALAFIA JIHADIA -MOHAMED FIZAZI
MARTYRS FOR MOROCCO -M.F.M