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State Department hails Morocco’s ‘extremely important’ participation in U.S.-Africa Summit

The U.S. State Department welcomed, Thursday, the “extremely important” participation of Morocco in U.S.-Africa leaders Summit, held in Washington December 13 to 15. “Having Morocco here (at the summit in Washington) is extremely important,” said Robert Scott, U.S. Assistant Secretary for African Affairs at the State Department, in a statement to the press on the […]

Synagogue in Casablanca hosts event in memory of Holocaust victims

A synagogue in Casablanca hosted Sunday a ceremony in the memory of the victims of the Holocaust on the occasion of the International Day of Commemoration of this large-scale and painful massacre that marked the Second World War. The ceremony in Beth-el Synagogue was held under the theme “Mohammed V: protector of the Moroccan Jewish […]

Hostage Taker in Southern France is French not Moroccan

The frenzy in western media over the Moroccan origins of the hostage taker in a French supermarket Friday is indicative of a western penchant to seek scapegoats for their failed deradicalization and integration policies. This tendency to blame the domestic radicalization to an external factor such as the “Moroccan origin” denotes a striking failure to […]