The World Economic Forum placed Morocco as the 2nd most competitive economy in North Africa behind Tunisia, in its African Competitiveness Report 2009.

Morocco signed three loan agreements with the French Development Agency ( AFD ) in 2009, totalling up to 155 million euros.

Starting in 1997, W3C created regional offices around the world ; as of September 2009, it has eighteen World Offices covering Australia, the Benelux countries ( Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Belgium ), Brazil, China, Finland, Germany, Austria, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, South Korea, Morocco, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom and Ireland.

: Algeria ; Chad ( 1960 – 1972 ); Comoros ; Djibouti ; Guinea ( 1959 – 1967 ); Libya ; Mali ( 1960 – 1973 ); Morocco ( 1994 – 2000 ); Mauritania ( 2000 – 2009 ); Niger ( 1960 – 1973, 1996 – 2002 ); Somalia ; Sudan ; and Tunisia ( 1996 – 2000 ), all of which have a Muslim majority.

2009, in spite of the geographic nearness between the Canary Islands and Morocco, the genetic heritage of the Canary islands male lineages, is mainly from European origin.

File: Souq in Morocco before Opening 2009 LL. JPG | Square of a souq in Marrakech, before owners open their stall

Burke performed at the Mawazine Festival Rhythms of the World in Rabat, Morocco in late May 2009.

Another 10, 000 may have lost their lives in Morocco ; however, a 2009 study of contemporary reports relating to the 1 November event found them vague, and difficult to separate from reports of another local series of earthquakes on 18 – 19 November.

Edith Lucie Bongo died on 14 March 2009, four days after her 45th birthday in Rabat, Morocco, where she had been undergoing treatment for several months.

He went back to Saudi Arabia, but soon returned to Morocco in August 2009.

As of early 2009, JDC is conducting projects in 71 countries, including Argentina, Croatia, Ethiopia, Poland, Morocco, Cuba, and throughout the former Soviet Union.

However, although the IAAF agreed in 2008 that Rabat, Morocco would be the venue for the 2010 Final, general secretary Pierre Weiss confirmed that the last edition would the 2009 competition as a result of changes in the structure of the one-day outdoor meetings tour.

The children fled Morocco in July 2009.

On November 14, 2009, Cameroon defeated the Atlas Lions of Morocco 2 – 0 in Fez in their last match of their campaign.

Libya's last clash with Morocco was at the 2006 African Nations Cup, where it finished goalless ( However, Libya also recently contested a fiery two-legged play-off tie for the 2009 African Championship of Nations, which Libya won 4 – 3 on aggregate ).

On the commentary track of the 2009 DVD release of Blyden's TV production of " What Makes Sammy Run " ( 1959 ), his co-star Barbara Rush says that Blyden was actually carjacked in Morocco and killed on the spot for his vehicle.

In 2009, three new international sites were opened in Belgium ( Brussels ), Italy ( Catania ) and Morocco ( Rabat ).

Morocco has started to introduce 50 ppm diesel to filling stations as of 2009.

On 4 November 2009, the new incarnation of Black Lace was filmed by the British airline easyJet, performing a re-written version of " Agadoo ", launching a new air service between Gatwick Airport and Agadir in Morocco, for release on the video-sharing website, YouTube.

A railway linking Nador to Taourirt was opened on 2 July 2009 by king Mohammed VI of Morocco.

Kathleen O ' Connor noted in 2009 that a madrasa in Morocco had started training women as imams.

In 2009 Morocco won the RLEF Euro Med Challenge.

Lousewies van der Laan remains active in promoting democracy, inter alia, by working with the National Democratic Institute, including as election observer at the 2007 elections in Morocco and 2009 elections in Lebanon.

In May 2009 Najwa Karam traveled to Morocco to perform at the Mawazine Festival 2009.

More than 20, 000 people were forced to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2009, an action the DR Congo said was in retaliation for regular expulsion of Congolese diamond miners who were in Angola illegally.

In July 2009, it was revealed that Universal Studios had won the rights to adapt the game into a film.

The APG III system ( 2009 ) differs only in that the Limnocharitaceae are combined with the Alismataceae ; it was also suggested that the genus Maundia ( of the Juncaginaceae ) could be separated into a monogeneric family, Maundiaceae, but the authors noted that more study was necessary before Maundiaceae could be recognized.

In 2009, one of the subfamilies of Araliaceae was shown to be polyphyletic.

The private transaction was reported in a 2009 article in The Economist, which described Warhol as the " bellwether of the art market ".

In the 1998 version, Alliaceae were a distinct family ; in the 2003 version, combining the Alliaceae with the Agapanthaceae and the Amaryllidaceae sensu stricto was recommended but optional ; in the 2009 version, only the broad circumscription of the Amaryllidaceae is allowed, with the Alliaceae reduced to a subfamily, Allioideae.

A review of the management of degenerative ataxia was published in 2009.

In 2010, retail trade turnover was largely unaltered compared to 2009.

As of late November 2009, the Armenian government's foreign debt was around $ 3 billion USD, having doubled in size over the course of the previous year.

On 10 September 2009, following an Internet campaign, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an official public apology on behalf of the British government for " the appalling way he was treated ".

The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).

It was signed into law on July 26, 1990, by President George H. W. Bush, and later amended with changes effective January 1, 2009.

< li > A unit was sold in September 2009 for $ 17, 000 on eBay.

In March 2009, NYSE Alternext U. S. was changed to NYSE Amex Equities.

In 2009, Aachen was ranked 8th among cities in Germany for innovation.

The building work for the stadium which has a capacity of 32. 960, began in May 2008 and was completed by the beginning of 2009.

By 2009 with natural gas prices at a long-term low, Alberta's economy was in poor health compared to before, although still relatively better than many other comparable jurisdictions.

Alberta was once the smallest of the three Prairie Provinces by population in the early 20th century, but by 2009, Alberta's population was 3, 632, 483 or approximately three times as much as either Saskatchewan ( 1, 023, 810 ) or Manitoba ( 1, 213, 815 ).

The January, 2009 collation of Alarums and Excursions was # 400.

He has written and produced seventy-three full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where all but four of his plays have received their first performance.

On August 21, 2009 it was announced that the institution had changed its name to Crandall University in honour of Rev.

* 215: 511 Philadelphia, PA was deprecated by state-wide use of 511 as road info in 2009 ; PA is the 36th state to adopt the system.

It was announced at the 2009 state of the franchise meeting that the Falcons would wear 1966 throwback uniforms for a couple games during the 2009 season.