Joudia Touri, a 31-year-old Moroccan neurosurgeon, is competing for a seat on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket through the SERA program, which offers suborbital flights to citizens from countries with little or no space presence. She sees the mission as both a childhood dream and an opportunity to link her work in medicine with the future of space exploration, while carrying Morocco’s flag into an uncharted field.
Amina Belkhayat, a 22-year-old mechanical engineering student from Casablanca, is competing for a seat on Blue Origin’s New Shepard through the SERA program, aiming to become the first Moroccan in space. Alongside her studies and outreach platform Space Darija, she researches space food security using medicinal plants and advocates for the creation of a Moroccan space agency.
Circa 6th century BC, Carthaginian navigator Hanno embarked on a spectacular voyage from Carthage to establish new settlements along the West African coast, with his first major stop in Morocco. His account recalls founding colonies at sites such as Mehdya, Azemmour, El Jadida, Oualidia, and Essaouira, before reaching the river Lixos and Kerne Island near Dakhla, the southernmost Carthaginian outpost.
Morocco Strategic Minerals Corporation announced on Thursday the results of its July 2025 channel sampling and selected sample program at the Tifernine property, located southeast of Ouarzazate in Morocco. In this area, where the company holds an option to acquire a 100% stake, the results indicate high-grade mineralization of certain exploitable materials.