The World Health Organization has urged Morocco in a new report to eradicate virginity testing. The practice, according to Moroccan sociologists, encourages discrimination and social hypocrisy.
On the 22nd of October 1956, a plane carrying FLN leaders, including Algeria’s future president Ahmed Ben Bella, was re-routed by the French authorities. The trip was plotted by King Mohammed V.
Morocco and Spain will be granted 140 million euros to manage the current migration crisis. Rabat will receive 70 million euros to purchase border surveillance equipment, in addition to an annual sum of money.
While Arab allies voiced their support for Saudi Arabia amid the Khashoggi death allegations, Morocco has decided to remain silent. Meanwhile, Western governments urged Riyadh to give more explanations over the death of the journalist.
Co-founder of several initiatives including «Incleaders», «Bridgizz» and «180Amsterdammers», Ahmed Larouz is a Moroccan national who lives in the Netherlands. The computer engineer has been helping for more than 20 years the Moroccan diaspora in the Netherlands.
A few days after a South African diplomat visited the Tindouf camps and Algiers, the Speaker of Pretoria's National Assembly arrived in Rabat. This is the second time this year that a senior official from south Africa visits the Kingdom.
Three Sahrawis have been sitting-in in front of the MINURSO’s headquarters in Mijek since Wednesday to protest against the Polisario and Algeria. Their action is embarrassing to the Front, according to Mustapha Salma Ould Sidi Mouloud.
Iraq’s embassy in Morocco was handed a verbal note by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation after an Iraqi festival screened a documentary on Western Sahara.
In 1932, more than five hundred Legionnaires were heading to Oujda to finalize the pacification of Morocco. The train that was carrying them crashed and 60 of them died before making it to the battlefield in the Kingdom.
Morocco’s ambassador to Ethiopia withdrew from a reception held by the Egyptian embassy in Addis Ababa because of the Polisario. A few days after, the Egyptian ambassador in the Kingdom and the Polisario brought their version of the story.