U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton started this Monday a visit to Algeria for talks with Algerian officials on the situation in northern Mali, a vast desert area that has been seized by Islamist militant groups following a military coup in the African country last March. Mrs Clinton will join her voice to France’s to […]
Morocco and Switzerland signed an agreement to cooperate on transport infrastructure as the North African country prepares to extend the-high-speed-train link south of Casablanca. The agreement was signed by Moroccan transport minister, Abelkader Amara, and his Swiss counterpart, Simonetta Sommaruga, Friday in Switzerland. The Swiss minister expressed her country’s willingness to help Morocco with its […]
Unlike Morocco’s other historic medinas, old Casablanca’s Anfa quarter carries a less visible historical footprint, largely overshadowed by the modern city built across from it under the Protectorate’s master plan, writer Mostafa Nissabouri states in an essay published by Le360 news outlet. Where other Moroccan medinas retain abundant traces of the past, Anfa’s old town, […]
