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...former marketing manager at cosmetics firm L'Oréal. But the two men persevered, and today their outsourcing company, Webhelp, is booming. Clients include Tiscali, the Italian Internet service provider, and TF1, France's leading TV station. In June, Webhelp opened its second call center in Rabat, bringing its total workforce to 800, and last week the company announced that its sales were on track to double this year, to j12 million. But the French government is starting to fight back. It's considering a decree that would require telephone operators talking to French consumers to state their location...
...Niger to train, got a world-class coach or won a bronze medal at the African championships in May, the feat that qualified him for Athens. OS "is indispensable," says Hassene Ikhlef, who coaches Alassane and 19 other scholarship holders at the International Center for African Judo (CIJA) in Rabat, Morocco. Without the funding, nations like Niger "would be very sparsely represented. These countries don't have the means to train properly, to travel, to compete." OS was born along with the newly independent nations of the developing world in the 1960s and 1970s. "There were suddenly all these...
...PEREJIL ISLAND Six Moroccan soldiers stormed this largely forgotten Spanish possession 200 meters off the African coast in July 2002, adding to long-simmering tension between Madrid and Rabat. But the dispute lost its sense of urgency after the Madrid train bombings. In his traditional first overseas trip, Spain's new Prime Minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, went to Morocco on Saturday to strengthen bilateral ties and encourage cooperation in the war on terror...
...earthquake that struck northern Morocco last week killed 572 people, injured 400 and left tens of thousands homeless. It also stirred up old resentments in the Berber-speaking region against the central government in Rabat. Protests spread as survivors complained of the government's slow response to the disaster. "We are hungry and there is nothing to eat!" hundreds chanted in the Mediterranean coastal city of Al Hoceima. Bitter over government repression and local corruption, people looted relief supplies. "I went to the town hall asking for blankets, but some people had stolen them and were selling them instead," said...
...hundreds of political activists, journalists and writers. For the movement, Ebadi's award is an infusion of hope. But the symbolism is even more potent. Ebadi is the first Muslim woman to receive the Peace Prize, and the honor has stirred pride and joy in millions of others from Rabat to Kuala Lumpur. Ebadi was in Paris when the award was announced in October, and when she returned to Tehran, thousands of Iranians, mainly women, turned out at the airport to welcome her home with tears, songs and carnations. "I don't have the same courage as Mrs. Ebadi," says...