updated Fri. August 16, 2024
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Independent.ie
April 2, 2018
My biggest regret going to Essaouira is that I didn't bring an empty suitcase. The walled medina in this brilliant Moroccan city has a smorgasbord of shops with hand-crafted and stylish interior goodies. I would have filled that empty case with woollen carpets, light fixtures and hand-painted ceramics for aÃâà...
Morocco World News
April 2, 2018
During the meeting, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for “an independent and transparent investigation” into one of the bloodiest clashes in Gaza since the 2014 cross-border war between Israel and Hamas, according to spokesman Farhan Haq. Other UN members have also expressed theirÃâà...
The Arab Weekly
April 1, 2018
TUNIS - The appointment of John Bolton as national security adviser to US President Donald Trump was warmly welcomed by the Algeria-backed Polisario Front. However, it was warily perceived in Morocco as the ascent of a friend of its foes in the disputed territory. Bolton is seen as having preset notionsÃâà...
Morocco World News
April 1, 2018
These opposing forces often engage each other with violence, and in cases like Algeria's civil war, this has devastating effects. In Morocco, because the king, the nation, .... Instead, it has increased corruption, social problems, environmental damage and armed conflict. The many billions of US dollars in oilÃâà...
Morocco World News
March 31, 2018
Rabat – In a recent interview with the American daily, The Washington Post, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) revealed that Riyadh had spread Wahhabi ideology, at the request of its Western allies to counter the influence of the Soviet Union (USSR) in Muslim countries, during the Cold War.
Morocco World News
March 31, 2018
Rabat – A fatal accident between a transport truck carrying agricultural workers and a bus transporting passengers occurred this morning at 7 a.m., resulting in the death of nine people and the injury of six. The collision happened on the provincial road connecting Biougra commune and Ait Amira, located inÃâà...
Morocco World News
March 31, 2018
Prisoners of war were forced to perform housework and errands, in addition to being sexually enslaved by the fighter who is given the right to violate them under the blessing of a fatwa issued by Daesh's religious theorists. Daesh's sex victims, according to El Harraq, were also prostituted by the combatants,Ãâà...
London Review of Books (blog)
March 20, 2018
Between 1975 and 1991 Morocco fought a war against the Polisario Front, an independence movement, which left Morocco in control of most the territory. Polisario, now based in Tindouf, Algeria, and recognised by the UN as the sole legitimate representative of the people of Western Sahara, routinelyÃâà...
European Council on Foreign Relations
March 16, 2018
Morocco's recent ascension to the African Union's Peace and Security Council is an important indication of its rising influence on the African stage. ... formidable voice it once had at the African Union, Algeria has long been a heavyweight of the organisation, emerging from its independence war as a leadingÃâà...
Washington Examiner
March 14, 2018
Some Israelis of Moroccan origin maintain close relations with their Moroccan heritage. How does this all relate to the Palestinian claim of a right to return to their homes in what is now Israel? Quite directly. The Arab exodus from Israel in 1948 was the direct result of a genocidal war declared against theÃâà...
