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The Federation of Property Developers (FNPI) has called on Moroccan authorities to take a comprehensive approach to housing policy that reconciles household purchasing power, the economic viability of property projects and lasting tax revenue, Aujourd’hui le Maroc reported. In a legal and regulatory watch bulletin that coincides with the 2027 Finance Bill, the federation argued […]
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 […]
French aerial lift rental company Access Industrie has returned to Morocco with the acquisition of Loxam subsidiary Atlas Rental. Access Industrie had sold its Moroccan company Maroc Elevation to Loxam’s Atlas Rental in 2015. Today Atlas Rental runs a fleet of around 150 machines from two branches, one in Casablanca and the other in El […]
Atlas Lion Achraf Hakim makes history as he becomes the first Arab and African player to earn selection in the global football team for the third consecutive time. The 2026 FIFPRO Men’s World 11 is the global football team of the year voted on exclusively by 19,806 professional footballers from 73 countries. Since 2005, FIFPRO […]
Port Said (Egypt) – Morocco’s National Beach Soccer team won the Arab Beach Soccer cup for the first time in its history on Monday, defeating Mauritania 6-5 in the final of the competition’s fifth edition, held in Port Said, Egypt. Trailing 4-2 during the final, the Atlas Lions staged a spectacular comeback to turn things […]
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 […]
Only two countries are currently witnessing potato shortages: Algeria and North Korea. In Algeria viral videos on social media showed dozens of citizens raiding fields to pick unripe potatoes themselves after the vegetable disappeared from the domestic market amid very high prices. The people desperately descended on farmlands, digging up and filling bags, as if […]
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 […]
