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The city of Dakhla, pearl of the Moroccan Sahara, has been voted “Dream Region 2021” during a ceremony organized lately by online news outlet “Tourisma Post”, the National Confederation of Tourism (CNT) and Moroccan National Tourism Office (ONMT). Dakhla has won the distinction following a survey conducted last summer by CNT and Tourisma Post, showing […]
US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs David Schenker, who is currently visiting the Moroccan Sahara, held talks Sunday in Dakhla with Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita that covered bilateral relations as well as a set of regional issues, such as the situation in Libya and in the Sahel. At a press […]
An institute specializing in tourism and hospitality training was inaugurated on Friday, December 18, in Dakhla. Built over a surface area of 20,000 square meters and having cost $4.78 million, the institute is meant to strengthen the vocational training system in the Dakhla Oued Eddahab Region, and adapt the training offer to the demand […]
This Monday saw the number of countries having opened diplomatic representations in the Moroccan Sahara increase by two new missions in Laayoune and Dakhla. Bahrain has thus opened this December 14 a consulate general in Laayoune, at a ceremony co-chaired by the Bahraini and Moroccan Foreign Ministers Abdullatif Al Zayani and Nasser Bourita. Bahrain, […]
The inauguration ceremony of this consulate was co-chaired by Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Abroad, Nasser Bourita, and his Bissau-Guinean counterpart Suzi Carla Barbosa. This is the 6th consular representation inaugurated in Dakhla in 2020, after the consulate general of The Gambia, opened on January 7, the consulate general of Guinea, which […]
The inauguration ceremony of this consulate was co-chaired by Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Abroad Nasser Bourita and his Burkina Faso’s counterpart Alpha Barry. This is the 5th consular representation inaugurated in Dakhla in 2020, after the Consulate General of The Gambia, opened on January 7, the Consulate General of Guinea, which […]
The inauguration ceremony of this consulate was co-chaired by Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Abroad, Nasser Bourita, and his Equatorial Guinean counterpart Simeón Oyono Esono Angue. This is the 7th consular representation inaugurated in Dakhla in 2020, after the consulate general of The Gambia, opened on January 7, the consulate general of […]
Guinea-Bissau is planning to inaugurate a consulate in Moroccan Sahara, Le360.ma reports citing sources. The sources did not elaborate on the date but the move will bolster the international support for the kingdom’s sovereignty over the disputed territory and its political settlement plan submitted to the United Nations. Algeria has been backing the separatist movement […]
Moroccan Police of the Saharan city of Dakhla on Monday arrested 25 African nationals who were intending to illegally migrate to overseas. The clandestine migrants were nabbed on the beach of the city before boarding a makeshift boat, says a press release issued by the national police. They were caught red-handed with two rowboat motors […]
The city of Dakhla, the pearl of Southern Morocco, will have its own leisure port to enhance its attractiveness for tourists and investors and foster its connections with the Canary Islands. Morocco’s ports authority (ANP) has invited consultancy firms to submit feasibility study bids for building such a port to offer diverse range of leisure […]