villes-anciennes

Chinese Investors Interested in Business Opportunities in Sahara

Chinese investors showed interests in the huge business opportunities offered in Morocco’s Sahara provinces and particularly in the region of Laayoune-Sakia El Hamra. It seems that the Chinese are looking for their share of the pie as several foreign investors are already operating in the Moroccan Sahara region, which is emerging as a gateway for […]

Tensions mount in South Sudan as violence threatens fragile power-sharing peace deal

South Sudan’s fragile peace process faces a severe setback as escalating violence between government forces and armed groups threatens the 2018 power-sharing agreement between President Salva Kiir and Vice President Riek Machar. The recent clashes, particularly in the Upper Nile state, have prompted the United Nations to warn of an “alarming regression” that could unravel […]

Rehabilitated Medersas to Play again their Yesteryear Role

Several Medersas, mostly dating back to the fourteenth century, have been rehabilitated in the frame of the rehabilitation program of the old medina of Fez and will thus play again the role that was theirs in the past as educational institutions, specializing in Islamic religious sciences, Islamic law and Classical Arabic. King Mohammed VI, Commander […]