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Morocco’s new Nador West Med port complex is rapidly establishing itself as a powerful magnet for international investment, replicating the successful Tanger Med model further east and bringing industrial projects, technology transfer and jobs to the Oriental region. Attracted by the port’s strategic Mediterranean location and modern logistics infrastructure, foreign companies are setting up operations. […]
Morocco is celebrating this November 6 the 51st anniversary of the Green March, an epic in Morocco’s contemporary history. The March mobilized 350,000 volunteers in a peaceful movement, as the marchers were carrying only copies of the Holy Koran and the Moroccan flags. This peaceful march, launched organized by the late King Hassan II on […]
Hugh Lovatt’s ECFR has published again a piece on the European Council on Foreign Relations that serves best as a textbook exercise in selective framing and pro-Algeria and pro-Moscow advocacy dressed up as European strategic advice. Lovatt portrays the end of MINURSO as a reckless American “miscalculation” that risks war, while casting Morocco as the […]
As the United Nations Mission in the Sahara winds down after 35 years, its head, Russian diplomat Alexander Ivanko, has held talks in Rabat while leaving the Polisario Front out of the process entirely. On Monday, November 2, Ivanko briefed some MINURSO staff in Laayoune on the departure arrangements. The following day he traveled to […]
Moroccan police arrested a 25-year-old French national of Malian origin Saturday, Nov. 7, near Agadir, under an international arrest warrant issued by French judicial authorities in connection with a murder case, according to security sources. Police carried out the operation in Oulad Teima’s Al-Korsi neighborhood using intelligence provided by Morocco’s Territorial Surveillance Agency (DGST). Interpol’s […]
Morocco’s men’s futsal team qualified for the semifinals of the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games after thrashing the Solomon Islands 15-1 on Saturday in Dakar, in a group-stage match, thanks in particular to a five-goal haul by Hamza El Ahmadi. Morocco’s 15 goals were scored by Hamza El Ahmadi (5), Mohammed Karouk El Bahi (3), […]
King Mohammed VI was represented by Minister of Youth, Culture, and Sports Mohammed Mehdi Bensaid at the opening ceremony of the Youth Olympic Games (Dakar 2026 YOG) Held Saturday. Morocco is participating in the Dakar 2026 YOG with a delegation of 39 athletes competing in 17 sports categories. The first Olympic event held on the […]
The African Cup of Nations (AFCON) will return to its traditional two-year cycle instead of four years. The U-turn was made by the Executive Committee of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) after a review. In December 2025, CAF President Patrice Motsepe had announced that AFCON will be held every four years starting 2028. The […]
King Mohammed VI has congratulated the members of the national futsal team on winning their fourth CAF Futsal AFCON title after defeating Angola 5-2 in the final match played Wednesday in Rabat. In his message of congratulations, the King expressed pride over the victory of the national futsal team at the Futsal Africa Cup of […]
Algeria, long presented as an oil powerhouse, imported more than one million tons of diesel in 2025 despite repeated presidential pledges of fuel self-sufficiency, according to Sonatrach’s latest annual report. In April 2025, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune declared in Bechar that “next year, Algeria will not import a single drop of gasoil.” Yet the company’s 2025 […]
Laïla Marrakchi’s third feature, “La Más Dulce” (“Strawberries” in English), has secured US theatrical distribution, H24info reports. Artmattan acquired the rights, according to the Paris-based company Lucky Number. The film was chosen to represent Morocco in the best international feature category at the 2027 Oscars, and the announcement is part of a series of new […]
Morocco is celebrating this November 6 the 51st anniversary of the Green March, an epic in Morocco’s contemporary history. The March mobilized 350,000 volunteers in a peaceful movement, as the marchers were carrying only copies of the Holy Koran and the Moroccan flags. This peaceful march, launched organized by the late King Hassan II on […]
Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri, lawyer and mayor of Marrakech, who was appointed Tuesday by King Mohammed VI as Morocco’s first female Head of Government, declared the nomination a “historic moment for our country” and pledged to deliver practical answers to citizens’ expectations, especially those of young people. Speaking to the press immediately after her audience […]
