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Two years after his much-heralded prostitute drama “Much Loved” was banned in his home country, Moroccan auteur Nabil Ayouch made it to the pre-selection of Oscar 2018 in the Best Foreign Movie with his most ambitious film to date, Razzia, a kaleidoscopic portrait of five lives touched by a single tumultuous event on the streets […]
Despite opposition from Muslim clerics, Tunisia passed a bill allowing Muslim women to marry non-Muslims in a bid to secure equal rights for Tunisia’s female population as the country forges ahead with its modernization endeavor. The bill overturned a law that required a non-Muslim man who wished to marry a Tunisian Muslim woman to convert […]
The Spanish government has recognized the failure of its border fence policy to stop the flow of migrants to its enclaves in northern Morocco and announced measures amounting to €10.7 million to reinforce border security in Ceuta. The six-meter barbed wire fence could not thwart thousands of migrants from taking the risk of crossing into […]
French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday reaffirmed France’s willingness to play an active role in supporting Kuwaiti mediation with a view to finding a solution to the Gulf crisis. This came after the meeting he held in Paris with Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim Al Thani. “The President of the Republic has reaffirmed the will […]
Spanish interior minister Juan Ignacio Zoido urged the EU to support Morocco’s “considerable” efforts to fight illegal immigration. “The EU should lend more support to African partners, such as Morocco, in their colossal efforts” in countering illegal immigration, said the Spanish official at a meeting of the EU’s justice and domestic affairs council. Zoido, whose […]
A ghost President with ghost achievements came to be the most appropriate description of Algeria’s ailing president Bouteflika whose public appearances are a thing of the past. As was expected, after three days of waiting in Algiers, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro joined the list of heads of state whose supposed meetings with Bouteflika never took […]
The Security Council Thursday extended for one year the mandate of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), entrusted with supporting the North African country’s political process and key national institutions, as well as coordination of international assistance. The new resolution, extending UNSMIL’s mandate through 15 September 2018, was unanimously adopted by the Security […]
Each year, the Global Firepower specialist site draws up its global ranking of conventional armies, which does not take into account the stockpiles of nuclear weapons. In its 2017 military strength ranking, seven African countries are in the top 55. These are Egypt, Algeria, Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Africa, Angola and Morocco. As usual, the list […]
Morocco is a very important partner for the United Kingdom in the fight against terrorism, underlined Thomas Reilly, ambassador of Great Britain in Morocco. “The United Kingdom highly appreciates the assistance provided by Morocco during the terrorist attacks in London,” the British diplomat said in a statement to MAP, on the sidelines of his participation […]
A “green leader among developing nations” and a country at “the forefront of renewable revolution”, thus the Christian Science Monitor described Morocco as it forges ahead with its ambitious goal to produce more than half of its energy needs by 2030 from clean energy sources. In an article entitled “Inside Morocco’s Renewable Revolution,” the US […]