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Digital transformation is reshaping the global tourism industry from destination choice through to booking, and Morocco’s fast-growing sector is leaning on that shift to meet its 2030 ambitions, Finances News Hebdo reports. Moroccan tourism has never been more dynamic: after welcoming 17.4 million visitors in 2024, the Kingdom reached 19.8 million arrivals in 2025, confirming […]
Latin America, long viewed as one of the strongest bastions of political and diplomatic support for the Polisario Front, is undergoing a notable realignment, as Morocco gains ground. A growing number of countries in the region are distancing themselves from the separatist group and moving closer to Morocco’s position on the Sahara issue. In recent […]
Far from the images of the mass border rushes at Ceuta and Melilla, a different migration story is unfolding in Algeria in the western Mediterranean. According to data released on August 12 by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Algeria has become the leading country of origin for irregular migration to Spain, well ahead of […]
Morocco is marking this Friday the 47th anniversary of the recovery of Oued Ed-Dahab, marking the return of the southern region to Moroccan rule on August 14, 1979. The anniversary follows Mauritania’s withdrawal from the territory under the Algiers Agreement with the Polisario Front, after which tribal leaders from Oued Ed-Dahab travelled to Rabat to […]
Moroccan Justice Minister Abdellatif Ouahbi reiterated the Kingdom’s historical and geographical claim to the cities of Ceuta and Melilla, marking his second public statement on the issue in just ten days. Speaking to the second national television channel, Ouahbi declared: “For us, Ceuta and Melilla are Moroccan lands. We have a historical and geographical right […]
Adam Bresnu is the first Moroccan and Arab golfer to reach the quarterfinals of the U.S. Amateur Championship 2026 held lately at the historic Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pennsylvania. The 22-year-old Texas Tech University standout delivered an exceptional, milestone-setting performance during the 126th edition of the U.S. prestigious amateurs tournament. Bresnu advanced through a […]
The Cameroon women’s national football team has been crowned champions of the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) following a commanding 3-0 victory against Malawi. The final match took place on Sunday evening at the Moulay El Hassan Stadium in Rabat, marking the conclusion of the continental tournament hosted by Morocco.
A rare cross-party coalition in Spain has called for Morocco’s exclusion from co-hosting the 2030 FIFA World Cup, treating the global governing body as if it were a family heirloom, even as the joint Spain-Portugal-Morocco bid succeeded largely thanks to African support secured by Rabat. Right-wing Vox, left-wing Sumar and Podemos, and elements of the […]
Morocco’s women’s national football team fell short of the 2026 Africa Cup of Nations (Morocco 2026) after losing to Cameroon 3–1 on penalty shoouts (0–0 after regulation and extra time) in the semi-final played Wednesday evening at Moulay El Hassan Stadium in Rabat. Cameroon will face Malawi in the final on Sunday at the same […]
Spanish far-right politicians, Polisario separatists, Algerian mouthpieces and Russian bots and certain Morocco phobic media figures have seized on the recent mass migrant crossings into the Spanish-occupied enclave of Ceuta to launch a coordinated campaign of disinformation and hostile coverage targeting Morocco, Spanish fact-checkers and international investigations show. Three weeks after tens of thousands of […]
Morocco’s National Federation of Education, affiliated with the Moroccan Labor Union (UMT), has called for massive participation in a demonstration set for Sunday, August 23, outside Parliament in Rabat. In a statement, the union urged its members, education-sector staff more broadly, and anyone concerned with the future of Moroccan schools and universities to join the […]
Latin America, long viewed as one of the strongest bastions of political and diplomatic support for the Polisario Front, is undergoing a notable realignment, as Morocco gains ground. A growing number of countries in the region are distancing themselves from the separatist group and moving closer to Morocco’s position on the Sahara issue. In recent […]
Dr. Sofia Ghacham, electrical engineer, ICT researcher, and founder of Women in AI Morocco, made the case that artificial intelligence cannot reach its full potential without the full participation of women — and that Morocco, despite its academic promise, still has significant ground to cover. The path to AI advocacy of Ghacham, who made the […]
