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Morocco sack coach Michel after ANC exitMorocco, knocked out in the first round of the African Nations Cup, fired French coach Henri Michel on Thursday. Ozal said Jamel Fethi would replace him as caretaker.
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A U.S. based institute with overseas research centers in Tunis, Tunisia and Tangier, Morocco, dedicated to the study of North Africa. Link to an online version of The Journal of North African Studies.
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According to the African Development Bank, the GDP of Morocco accounts for 7% of the African continent. Morocco is the fifth economic power of Africa with an annual GDP of $152 billion, after South Africa, Egypt, Algeria and Nigeria.
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World Bank's Board of Directors approved, here Thursday, a USD 43,2Mn grant to Morocco to build an Integrated Solar Combined Cycle Power Plant (ISCC). Located in Ain Béni Mathar (eastern Morocco) -about 80 kms to the South of Oujda- the plant will have a 472 MW capacity, 20 MW of which are generated thanks to solar energy. It will be ready by 2012 and generate some 3,538 Giga Watts/Hour per annum, said a document of the WB. This plant that is to cost USD 568Mn will be co-financed the Moroccan Electricity Office (ONE), the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the African Development Bank (AfDB).
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After the reign of the Idrisids, Arab settlers lost political control in the region of Morocco. After adopting Islam, Berber dynasties formed governments and reigned over the country. Morocco would reach its height under these Berber dynasties that replaced the Arab Idrisids after the 11th century. The Almoravids, the Almohads, then the Marinid and finally the Saadi dynasties would see Morocco rule most of Northwest Africa, as well as large sections of Islamic Iberia, or Al-Andalus.
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Based in the cosmopolitan city of Rabat, students study Arabic and acquire an in-depth appreciation of a rich and rapidly changing society in Morocco. Excursions include the four imperial cities of Fès, Meknès, Rabat, and Marrakech. Students ... travel to Zagora and Essaouira to explore the roles Morocco has played in Africa and southwestern Europe, both as a medieval and post-renaissance empire and as a contemporary society.
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