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The Moroccan National Tourism Office (ONMT) and Canadian airline Air Transat have announced the launch of a historic direct flight connecting Montreal and Agadir, set to begin operations on June 12, 2026. This weekly service will be the first direct air link between North America and tourist hub Agadir, marking a significant milestone in Morocco’s […]
More than 20,000 people took to the streets of Paris in support of Kabylie independence from the yoke of the military regime in Algiers, waving Kabyle flags and chanting slogans denouncing Algerian repression. The march was held on the day of the Amazigh Spring commemorating the Kabyle struggle to emancipate from the grip of the […]
Zakaria Moumni was arrested Saturday night by Montreal police after he broke into a festival organized by members of the Moroccan community to celebrate the 23rd anniversary of the accession of King Mohammed VI to the Throne. He got into a violent altercation with Moroccan youtuber Mohamed Touhfa from Florida, who was invited to the […]
Azzedine Soufiane, a Canadian citizen from Moroccan origin has been identified among the six victims of the terrorist attack that targeted a mosque in Quebec City on Sunday evening. Details of the dead and the injured have emerged. Quebec City police released the names and ages of the victims of the fatal shooting. Soufiane, aged […]
The 2016 Economic Freedom of the World Report issued by the Canadian Fraser Institute pointed out to the plummeting economic freedom in Algeria, which ranked 151st among 159 surveyed countries. The report measures economic freedom including levels of personal choice, ability to enter markets, security of privately owned property and rule of law. It analyses […]
Morocco’s flag carrier, Royal Air Maroc (RAM), will be operating three flights a week from Casablanca to Washington as of this September. The inaugural flight was launched on September 8 using the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, the Moroccan airline said in a statement. The Casablanca-Washington air route is the third long-haul flight launched by RAM in […]