Morocco
This North African country is the most mountainous of its neighbors. It has a population of 31 million. Its capital city is Rabat, and 1.4 million people live there. 99% of the country is ethnically Arab-Berber, and Arabic is the dominant language. The primary industry is related to phosphate productions, which also accounts for the country's interest in maintaining their illegal occupation of Western Sahara, which also holds large phosphates reserves. Morocco also has a large textile industry, which expanded rapidly in the 1980s. Morocco has a constitutional monarchy that included an elected legislative assembly. The king acts as an executive president. In 1975 the country seized Western Sahara despite widespread critique. The government has seen a rise in radical groups such as the Al Sunna Wal Jamaa, which try to enforce Islamic behavior violently. The country established its first free parliamentary in 2002 and 2007. In 2011 the Arab spring pressured the king into a new constitution through the king's remains in power.
DATA VISUALIZATIONS
PROTESTS
Morocco-October-2017
, Shuaib University
Students are demanding the release of their peers after a protest. Link contains video in Arabic (Primary Source)
Morocco-November-2016
, Imam Wassar Barqan
Student protested inside their school demanding that some members of the Imam Werash Association leave because of poor management. (Primary Source)
Morocco-September-2018
, Beni Mellal School
Student and parents marched toward their school to protest the closure of a primary school. The school was allegedly closed without justification or obvious reason. (Primary Source)
Morocco-January-2016
Rabat, Rabat
Trainee teachers took to the streets to protest two government decrees which reduce the amount of teachers' scholarship aid by half and stipulates trainees must sit for an exam at the end of a one-year training in order to be hired. The protest resulted in police brutality (Primary Source)
Morocco-February-2011
Fez, Thahir el mehraz University
Students march in solidarity with Egyptian and Tunisian people. The march began at the university and ended downtown (Primary Source)
Morocco-October-2007
Fez, University of Fez
40 students were expelled from campus after a protest advocating for the independence of Western Sahara from Morocco (Primary Source)
Morocco-November-2016
Al-Hoceima, Al-Hoceima
Students boycotted their schools and took to the streets. They carried signs saying "we are al Mouhcine' in protest of King Mohammed (Primary Source)
Morocco-October-2016
Fez, Abdulkaram Bershid School
Parents help protest in front of the Education Office in Fez over the shortage of human resources at their children's school. Link has video in Arabic (Primary Source)
Morocco-November-2014
Kenitra, Ibn Tofail University
10 students were arrested outside university during their peaceful protest organized in objection to the increase in the price of bus tickets. (Primary Source)
Morocco-May-2018
Safi, Al-Azhari Group Heroes School
Parents and guardians are protesting the increase in fees for monthly duties, registration fees, and insurance. (Primary Source)
Morocco-May-2015
Marrakech, University of Marrakech
Riots broke out at the school and 24 students were injured by police. The students organized the march in protest against the non-disbursement of grants on time. (Primary Source)
Morocco-April-2017
Fez, Fez Court of First Instance
Violent protest broke out in Fez as students and community members took to the streets to support two leftist students appearing in court after they were charged with murder of an Islamist student. Police used tear gas and other violent tactics. 45 people were injured and 17 students were arrested. (Primary Source)
Morocco-January-2017
Tetouan, Mohamed Elfatih
Parents and student protest to demand that their schools' foundation continues to play its education role under the supervision of the administrative staff. (Primary Source)
Morocco-November-2017
Ouarzazate, Moroccan University
Hundreds of teachers and community members took to the street to protest in solidarity with their colleague who was violently abused by one of his students. (Primary Source)
Morocco-February-2018
Fez, University of Sidi Mohamed Ibn Abdullah
Student protest against the policy of the presidency. Attached link is a video of protest in Arabic (Primary Source)
Morocco-June-2018
Agadir, University of Ubn Zahr
Students protest in front of their school over the arrest of their professor. Students calling the arrest "unjust" (Primary Source)
Morocco-April-2014
Fez, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University
Fighting between leftist and Islamic students at university led to one death and a protest to end violence on campuses. (Primary Source)
Morocco-September-2018
, Rabat
Students protest against the government's decision to stay on daylight savings time, GMT +1, rather than reverting back to GMT (Primary Source)
Morocco-February-2014
, Rabat
Kenyan students studying on Moroccan government issued scholarships at Moroccan Universities protest the opening of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic mission in Nairobi, in fears that it will harm diplomatic ties between Kenya and Morocco, and put their scholarship status in jeopardy (Primary Source)
Morocco-January-2017
Inezgane, Casablanca,Marrakesh,Inezgane,Tangiers,Fez,and Oujda
Teachers in six major cities across Morocco responded to a call by the National Coordination of Teacher Trainees at Regional Centers for Education and Training to peacefully protests a reduction in job security and teacher stipend. (Primary Source)
Morocco-July-2017
Agadir, Agadir University
This video shows footage and photos of a protest by Sahrawi students who staged a mass protest at Agadir University against the racist practices by Morocco against the Sahrawi people. (Primary Source)
Morocco-October-2015
Agadir, Agadir
Student activists are meeting in secret, in defiance of the countries government to plan protests for the independence for Western Sahara. Article discusses the protest activity and the tension. (Primary Source)
Morocco-November-2017
Rabat, Descartes High School
Teachers go on strike to protest the cutting of expatriate teaching posts and of resident teachers beginning next year. (Primary Source)
Morocco-January-2016
Rabat, Rabat
Thousands of teachers and their families protest in the streets over the government's plan in education sector. (Primary Source)
Morocco-January-2012
Rabat, Ministry of Education Building
5 men, who are part of the 'Unemployed Graduates' set themselves on fire, to protest their unemployment, and that of recent graduates. The men, along with 160 others had been occupying the Ministry Education Building. When officers approached to remove their occupation, 5 men lit themselves on fire. (Primary Source)
Morocco-November-2015
Rabat, Faculte de Medecine Pharmacie de Rabat
Medical students protest and strike for months over a government policy that required them to spend two years in a civil service program after graduation. The program requirement was overruled. (Primary Source)
Morocco-May-2011
Rabat, Rabat
Students, teachers and community members target the Mawazine festival (music festival) in opposition of where it's funds went. Activists say that the money from the festival should have gone to funding school. (Primary Source)
Morocco-April-2002
Rabat, Rabat
High Schoolers organize unofficial rallies in support of Palestine that grows into a rally organized by the Moroccan Association in Support of the Palestinian Struggle attended by over 1 million people. (Primary Source)
Morocco-September-2015
Smara, Tantan,Said Dambar and Asakan
Students protest the holding of Moroccan elections in Western Sahara, and call for an independent Sahrawi state. The demonstration was violently dispersed by the Moroccan military force, and is part of a larger student organizing effort for Western Saharan independence. (Primary Source)