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.
In 2017, Algeria spent $ 421,000 on lobbying in the United States, while Morocco expended nearly $ 1.8 million during the same period.
Morocco was not invited to the meeting held yesterday, 12th of September, in Kuwait to discuss the Middle East Strategic Alliance (MESA) project, initiated by US President Donald Trump. Military leaders from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Jordan, Egypt and the host country participated to the meeting, reported KUNA news agency. Washington, which is paying close attention to the project, sent General Joseph Leonard Votel, a four-star general in the United
Expected to perform on Friday, 14th of September, at the 18th edition of the annual Casablanca festival L’Boulevard, Moroccan-American singer Dounia cancelled her concert in Morocco. The information was confirmed by the artist herself and a member of the festival’s team. On her Twitter account, Dounia told fans that her team wouldn’t be able to make it to Casablanca and that her performance was annulled. Responding to one of her followers, she tweeted saying : «No
Morocco's permanent representative to the United Nations in New York, ambassador Omar Hilale, was elected on Tuesday as president of the Humanitarian Affairs Segment of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) for the period 2018-2019. This election took place at the first meeting of the Bureau of the Economic and Social Council, chaired by ambassador Inga Rhonda King of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and attended by the vice-presidents of the Economic and Social Council,
A few weeks before the adoption of a new resolution, extending the mandate of the MINURSO, the United States warns Morocco and the Front against the situation in the Sahara.
A new report suggests that EPA’s former chief spent millions on security details while heading the agency. In December, Scott Pruitt and his staff had problems «transferring the weapons between planes», when flying to Morocco.
On Friday, an American platform published a press release, announcing that Moroccan urologist Karim Touijer was named a 2018 Top Doctor in New York. The award, however, was nearly hard to track.
31-year-old Soufiane El Khalidy is a multitalented Moroccan national, living in Los Angeles. He is a movie director, actor and stuntman who has participated in 56 movies and TV shows over the course of only two years.
In 1996, President Bill Clinton relied on King Hassan II to help Russia’s Boris Yeltsin end the Chechnya conflict. In a phone conversation, the two leaders spoke about Morocco’s valuable contribution.