MOROCCO

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GEOGRAPHIC FACTS

• Capital city: Rabat
• Government: monarchy
• Education: free and compulsory
• Infant mortality rate: 25.5 deaths/1,000 live births
• Childbirth mortality rate: 100 deaths/100,000 live births

MORE FACTS

• Major exports: wine, mixed mineral, calcium phosphates, and non-knit womens suits
• Languages and ethnic groups: official languages, Arabic and Berber
• Spoken language: Moroccan, Arabic, French, Spanish, and Berber dialects
• Ethnic groups: 99% Arabic and 1% others
• Religious make-up: Sunni Islam

RURAL LIFE COMPARED TO URBAN

URBAN

PRECOLONIAL

• AHMAD AL-MANSUR
• Country split between his sons
• 1666 the sultanate was reunited with former dynasty
• "Alaouite Dynasty" has since been ruling house of morocco
• Treaty of Fez: A document dividing morocco into french and spanish protectorate

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COLONIALISM

FREEDOM

• French Morocco became independent
• Spain side soon released all rights to the territory

Conflicts-
2013 April - Morocco cancels joint military exercises with the US over Washington's backing for UN monitoring of human rights in Western Sahara. Morocco calls the proposed monitoring an attack on its sovereignty.

2013 October - King appoints new government following a power-sharing deal forged by Prime Minister Abdelila Benkirane months after his governing coalition was hit by the resignation of one of its partners.

Conflicts-
2013 September - News site editor Ali Anouzla arrested for publishing a video which was attributed to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and which accused the king of being corrupt and oppressive.

2014 February - Morocco suspends judicial co-operation with France following a diplomatic row over lawsuits in Paris that accuse the kingdom's intelligence chief Abdellatif Hammouchi of complicity in torture.

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