(AKI) - Morocco will have its first private TV news channel in just over a week, the communications minister Mohamed Nabil Benabdallah has announced, saying the channel, broadcasting in Arab and French, will be operative from December. The initiative is part of the Rabat government's strategy to improve freedom of information in the country, the minister said. Since 2003 Morocco has had a law that ends the state monopoly on television news and of a regulatory authority for broadcasting. But inreality, it continues to be dominated by state broadcasters.The government's plan also includes efforts to develop and widen the written media. Benabdallah recalled that there is a financial support plan for written media that has been accessed by 39 papers and magazines.