Morocco’s Fatima Ezzahra Gardadi won the bronze medal in the Women’s Marathon at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest on Saturday, becoming the first Moroccan athlete to compete and get a medal in this category. Gardadi, 31, completed the 26.2-mile course in 2 hours, 25 minutes, and 17 seconds. Ethiopian Amane Beriso Shankule won the […]
The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, Catherine Ashton has described Morocco as “a key partner of the European Union” and hailed the constructive role played by the North African nation on the international scene “to resolve instability in the Sahel and in Syria”. Ashton, who met lately in Brussels with Moroccan […]
While we enter a new year, the emerging consensus among observers of the Middle East and Northern Africa is that the Arab Spring has turned into a frosty Arab Winter. Nothing speaks to this perception as strongly as the ongoing civil war in Syria, where the embattled Assad-regime, propped up by Hizbollah and Iran, is […]
