Morocco: Slow March to Literacy

Morocco's "march towards light" as its literacy programme is called is brightening up as official figures go, but with far too many shady areas still. Two years after the launch of the programme intended to eradicate illiteracy by 2015 in line with the Millennium Development Goals, officials claim that illiteracy has diminished to 38 percent of the population of 30 million, from 80 percent in 1960 and 48 percent in 1999.