A multidisciplinary university School has been inaugurated lately in the Saharan city of Smara located in the Laayoune-Sakia El Hamra region. Built over a 69,500 m2 area, the academic institution offers students classes in foreign languages, translation, Islamic studies, and computing science. It has three lecture halls, ten 60-seat rooms, a laboratory, in addition to […]
By 18 October 2012, a report that Salafis destroyed an 8,000-year-old petroglyph in Yakour Plain not far from Marrakesh quickly spread on Facebook and Twitter. The rock-drawing depicting the animistic divinity of the sun is one of thousands of stone carvings in the High Atlas and Anti-Atlas Mountains. Print and online newspapers repeated these rumors, […]
The World Bank expects Morocco’s economic growth to jump from 2.7% in 2019 to 3.5% in 2020, the World Bank said citing Morocco’s reforms to curb fiscal deficit and boost exports. Morocco’s GDP should increase at a slower pace to 3.6 in 2021 and 3.8 in 2022, the World Bank said in its Global Economic […]
