In 1578, three of the most courageous kings marked history in one of the largest wars ever fought in North Africa between 1400 and 1700. Sultan Abd al Malik, the dethroned sultan Mohammed Al Motawakkil and the Portuguese King, Sebastian I were all killed in the battle known as Alcacer Quibir.
In 1839, sultan Abd al-Rahman ibn Hisham of Morocco sent a pair of lions to the US consulate in Tangier as a present for President Martin Van Buren. The gift was impossible to refuse and was shipped to the US by 1840.
In Morocco, Egyptian singer Abdelhalim Hafed lived one of the scariest moments of his life. Invited by King Hassan II, he was held in Rabat’s main radio station taken over by rebels during the 1971 attempted coup d’état.
Estebanico the Moore and Mustapha Zemmouri, are both nicknames of the Moroccan slave who ended up in Florida after being captured and enslaved by the Portuguese. The young Azemmour-native is the first African and Moroccan man to ever lay a foot on the American soil.
Even though the Moroccan State has toned down the territorial dispute over the possession of Gibraltar, the Kingdom was at the center of almost all the political solutions surrounding the Spanish-British disagreement over the control of the overseas territory. This was confirmed later through a letter that was sent in July 1940.
For Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta, Maldivians were converted to Islam by a Berber merchant known as Abu al-Barakat Yusuf al-Barbari. In the Islands the Muslim scholar is regarded as a medieval hero who saved the nation from a sea monster.
The secretary general of the Polisario Front appeared for the first time on Tuesday before the Spanish courts. Brahim Ghali, who has been hospitalized since April in Logroño, denied all allegation, OK Diario reported, citing informed sources. Ghali, who decided to appear before the court, responded through his lawyer Manuel Ollé. The sources of the Spanish media explain that he has «denied all the accusations of genocide, torture and kidnapping brought against
The Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ) arrested Tuesday two dangerous individuals affiliated with Daesh and active in the Tamdafelt (Missour) and Béni Khellad (Taza) villages. One of the two suspects, aged 24 and 37, is a former detainee under the anti-terrorism law, after his return from the Syrian-Iraqi scene where he had joined the ranks of this terrorist organization, reads a statement by BCIJ. The searches carried out at the homes of the two accused led to the
On Monday, the Moroccan police prevented a new migration attempt to Ceuta. Elements of the security forces have banned hundreds of would-be migrants, most of them Moroccans, from approaching the border. On the same day, a group of ten immigrants tried to swim to Ceuta. An attempt also aborted by the Moroccan police. On May 17 and 18, 10,000 migrants crossed to Ceuta. The strong interventions of Moroccan public forces attest that security cooperation between Rabat and Madrid is
The Moroccan government has decided to allow activities and gatherings in closed spaces starting from June 1, with the reopening of cinemas, theaters, cultural centers, libraries, museums and reception halls. However, this is a gradual reopening that is conditioned for the moment by hosting a maximum of 50% of the capacity of each space, without exceeding in any case 100 people. An authorization granted by the local authorities is required in case this number is
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