The Moroccan city of Fez, which recently hosted the Global Forum of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, has long been a melting pot of religions and cultures, the UN press service states. An article published Sunday on the UN press service website notes that the 200-year-old Jewish cemetery of Fez symbolizes the centuries-long coexistence […]
Morocco received 10 million tourists up to July this year, a record, as the country expects to outperform last year’s arrivals, the finance ministry said. Arrivals in the first seven months were 15% up compared to the same period last year, it said. In the month of July alone, 2.6 million people visited Morocco, up […]
At least eight foreigners, including Britons, Norwegian and Japanese nationals were seized Wednesday in Algeria by Islamist militants in an attack on an oil facility in the south-eastern region of the North African country. The terror attack, which targeted a BP gas plant in the town of In Amenas (near the Libyan border), also claimed […]
