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Morocco’s King reaffirms autonomy as only solution to Sahara issue

King Mohammed VI received UN chief Antonion Guterres to whom he reiterated Morocco’s steady position to settle the regional dispute over the Sahara on the basis of the autonomy initiative. Morocco has put forward in 2007 the autonomy initiative under its sovereignty as a win-win solution to the Algeria-fabricated conflict. The talks also raised resolution […]

Geneva-based NGO denounces Algeria’s reprisals against relatives of political dissidents

A Geneva-based non-governmental organization has denounced before the United Nations the acts of reprisals carried out by Algeria against the relatives of political dissidents settled abroad. In this connection, the Alkarama Foundation submitted to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention the case of the arrest of Abderrahmane Zitout. The “crime” of Abderrahmane Zitout is […]

Morocco: Africa’s oldest giant dinosaurs’ teeth unearthed in Middle Atlas Mountains

Moroccan and foreign researchers have unearthed, near Morocco’s Boulemane province, in the Middle Atlas Mountains, three fossilized teeth of giant dinosaurs dating to the Bathonian era (Middle Jurassic, around 168-166 million years ago), the scientific journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica reported in a study published on August 7. The plant-eating dinosaurs are called “Turiasaurians”. The study […]