Oil-rich United Arab Emirates on Wednesday announced giving $100 million to Morocco in "financial support" to build solar and wind power farms, WAM state news agency said.

The aid is aimed at supporting economic and social development, and supporting the drive to use clean and renewable energy, it said.

A Moroccan journalist arrested last week for posting a link to an al-Qaida video has been charged with defending and inciting "terrorism", his lawyers said on Wednesday.

Ali Anouzla, director of the Arabic version of independent news website Lakome, was arrested on September 17 after his website posted a link to the video attributed to al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the jihadist network's North African affiliate.

The number of people who have tried to illegally cross the border that separates the Spanish territory of Melilla from Morocco has nearly doubled this year but most fail to make it over, the interior ministry said Monday.

About 3,000 migrants tried to scale the border fence that surrounds Melilla, an autonomous Spanish city that borders northern Morocco, between January 1 and September 17, compared to 1,610 during the same period last year, the ministry said in a statement.

Up to 5,000 people protested in the Moroccan capital Sunday against the Islamist government and the high cost of living after price rises of staple goods, Agence France Press reported.

The peaceful demonstration came as local press also reported a threatened 72-hour general strike in the transport sector from Monday.

Moroccan authorities have decided to prolong by four days the detention of a news website editor arrested for posting an al-Qaida video, his lawyer said on Saturday.

"Ali Anouzla's detention has been extended by four days by the prosecutor," Naima Guellaf told Agence France Presse.

About 200 African migrants charged a barbed-wire border fence that separates the Spanish exclave of Melilla from Morocco on Thursday but less than 10 got over, local officials said, the latest in a string of coordinated assaults on the frontier.

The migrants caused light damage to a stretch of around 30 meters (100 feet) of the fence, a territory bordering northern Morocco, Spanish government officials in the territory said in a statement.

Moroccan police on Tuesday arrested the editor of an independent news website for airing a video posted by al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb that incites "acts of terrorism" in the kingdom.

Ali Anouzla, director of Lakome's Arabic version, was arrested mid-morning, according to several journalists at the popular website, with police also seizing computer equipment from his office.

Hundreds of migrants broke through a border fence from Morocco into Spanish territory on Monday, clashing with police in a raid that left seven people injured, officials said.

About 300 migrants before dawn tore down part of the six-meter (20-foot) high fence around Melilla, a Spanish-governed exclave bordering northern Morocco, and about 100 made it through, Spanish government officials in the territory said in a statement.

Morocco's Islamist-led government has unveiled a charter outlining a raft of long-awaited judicial reforms including a strengthening of the judiciary's independence that have been a priority of the ruling party.

The charter was presented late Thursday by the justice ministry, some two years after the kingdom adopted a new constitution in the face of sweeping Arab Spring protests with key provisions for judicial reforms.

Morocco on Wednesday announced a new immigration policy, pledging to review cases according to specific criteria, following sharp criticism over its treatment of sub-Saharan migrants.

The announcement comes three days after Morocco's National Human Rights Council (CNDH) issued a report calling for "a radically new asylum and immigration policy," to which King Mohamed VI responded by admitting "legitimate concerns".