Morocco: experts upbeat about desert lakes
Hope is growing in Morocco for farmers who have been battling with drought now for six years, particularly in the...
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Morocco suffers EU blow by court ruling over Western Sahara
Frosty relations between Morocco and the European Union have tumbled again due to a legal ruling, possibly pushing Rabat to...
Blinken meets Morocco’s FM Bourita in Washington D.C.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken met his Moroccan counterpart Naser Bourita in Washington on October 2nd amid heightened tensions...
Algeria re-introduces visa requirements on Moroccans
On September 26th Algeria announced it was re-imposing visa requirements on Moroccans, saying that some of its passport holders had...
Moroccan court to try Israeli soldier over alleged war crimes
A court case against an IDF soldier on holiday may well spark a trend preventing others ever leaving Israel, or...
Morocco stops mass migration attempt into Ceuta
On September 15th, Moroccan authorities thwarted an attempt by dozens of migrants to breach the border fence in an effort...
Yasmine Hasnaoui: How Algeria swindles its citizens over the Sahara
In the last five years, countries who hold a historical responsibility toward the Western Sahara marked a new departure, by...
Morocco confirms first Mpox case
Morocco has confirmed its first Mpox case in a man in Marrakech, the health ministry said, reports Reuters. The World...
Heavy rains in Morocco and Algeria take lives, destroy homes
Unusual heavy rains have hit both Morocco and Algeria in desert areas that killed nearly two dozen people and destroyed...
Sarah Leah Whitson: The price of France’s shift on Western Sahara
On July 31, with little fanfare or attention, France formally recognized Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara, abandoning its decades-long support...
Moroccan press blame PM Akhannouch for jobs “massacre”
Aziz Akhannouch, Morocco’s business tycoon Prime Minister estimated, by some accounts, to be the fifth richest man in Africa is...
Morocco’s Hammouchi decorated by France
Relations are continuing to improve between Paris and Rabat, barely weeks after Emmanuel Macron indicated to Morocco that he was...
Morocco: nearly 5,000 cannabis farming convicts pardoned
In a continued streak of clemency, Moroccan King Mohammed VI has pardoned nearly 5,000 people convicted or wanted on charges...
Israel’s liaison office quietly resumes operations in Morocco
Large parts of Moroccan society have voiced their discontent with Israel over its actions in Gaza since the start of...
Algeria blocks deportations from France over Western Sahara
Many saw Paris as offering Morocco an olive branch by recognising its claim of sovereignty over the Western Sahara, though...
