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Preservation of Saharan Cultural Heritage takes Pride of Place in Morocco’s Development Model

The development model adopted by Morocco in the southern provinces attaches utmost importance to safeguarding the cultural and civilizational aspects of the Sahara as part of a national undertaking aiming at preserving all the constituents of Moroccan identity, said King Mohammed VI in a speech to the nation marking the 42nd anniversary of the Green […]

Moroccan intellectual wins French Academy’s Grand Prix de la Francophonie

The Permanent Secretary of the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco, Abdeljalil Lahjomri, won the Grand Prix de la Francophonie awarded by the French Academy.   The prize, part of the 2019 list of 64 prizes and medals granted by l’Académie Française, was awarded to M. Lahjomri, ex-aequo with the Czech poet Petr Kral.   […]

French criminal court sentences former Liberian rebel commander to 30 years in jail

A French criminal court has handed former Liberian rebel commander Kunti Kamara a 30-year prison sentence for violence against civilians and complicity in crimes against humanity between 1993 and 1994 during Liberia’s first civil war. The 49-year-old had been sentenced to life in prison during a first trial in Paris in 2022. In the appeals […]