This year, the Green March’s speech comes during a favorable regional and international conjuncture for Morocco. Days after the adoption of the recent UN resolution, King Mohammed VI welcomed the fact that 163 states do not recognize «SADR» and that the association agreement signed with the Kingdom fully recognizes the presence of the Sahara in Morocco.
After the White House announced in October that the US President senior advisor Ivanka Trump is to promote women’s economic development in a Morocco visit, she took to Twitter to give more details about the upcoming trip to North Africa. On Tuesday, November 5, Donald Trump’s daughter said that «recently passed laws allow Moroccan women to benefit from the proceeds of collective lands», referring to the Soulaliyat movement in Morocco. The CEO Millennium Challenge
Several Moroccan YouTubers have been posting videos, where they prank their families and loved ones. But not all of these videos end well. While some of them are exaggerated, others are shocking, harmful and sometimes violent. To experts, these practices reflect how some Moroccans see technology.
Lucy Folk is an Australian jewelry designer who went on a creative journey to Morocco. Her latest collection was exclusively inspired by Tangier, Vogue Australia said on Tuesday. «Most recently she went to the exotic seaside town of Tangier in Morocco to collaborate with local artist, Gipi de Rougemont Salvy», the magazine wrote. Folk was impressed by the «intoxicating» culture of the Moroccan city and made sure to show that in her Sydney and Melbourne stores
Expected to take place from November 15 to 17, the fifth edition of the Euro-Mediterranean Young Leaders Forum, co-organized by the French Embassy in Morocco and the French institute, has been slammed by anti-normalization activists in Morocco. The Moroccan Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (MACBI) and Tunisia’s TACBI criticized the French Embassy in Rabat for inviting Israeli activists, aged between 18 and 25 years, to the event that is to take place in Essaouira. In a
The 2020 edition of the US-Africa Business Summit will be held in Marrakech in June, Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) announced Monday in Washington. CCA’s board of directors chose Marrakech, organizers said in a statement relayed by MAP news agency. «Morocco is committed to promoting economic development in Africa, serving as an idea destination for the 2020 Summit to be held in North Africa for the first time», CCA said. The Kingdom’s ambassador to Washington, Lalla
In 1977, France became the first and only country to lead a third-party military intervention into the Western Sahara conflict. The military operation was conducted on behalf of Mauritania, which was targeted by the Front’s guerilla forces.
The new composition of the new antiparliamentary friendship group between Mexico and the Polisario was revealed on October 31. The body is chaired by Olga Juliana Elizonda Guerra. It is the fifth group ever created by Mexico’s lower house since 1979, when the country recognized «SADR». Shortly after the creation of the group, the Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs called for the creation of a similar group with Mexico, in a letter sent to MPs. The idea was discussed during
Moroccan authorities have not yet implemented the need of presenting an immunization certificate for travelers coming from the Philippines, Morocco’s embassy in the Southeast Asian country said Monday. According to ABS CBN News, Morocco was listed among the countries that require vaccination certificates from travelers departing from polio-affected territories, including the Philippines, citing a World Health Organization (WHO) report. However, the Kingdom has not yet been implementing
Morocco prison authorities said, Monday, that several Hirak detainees have been put in solitary confinement. The detainees, including Hirak leading figure Nasser Zefzafi, will be banned from family visits and phones for 45 days as part of a disciplinary measure. This decision came after an audio of Nasser Zefzafi was leaked to social media last week. In this audio recording Zefzafi addressed the desecration of the national flag in Paris, the Hirak movement and alleged reports on torture