It was a night of grit and glory, a final that vanished from memory as it happened, only to be immortalised by the madness of its ending
Relations between the two allies soured but their recent reconciliation has serious implications for Morocco’s neighbours, especially the Sahrawis
Kevin Davie reflects on a recent conference in Rabat held to explore the potential of a re-energised Atlantic Basin.
A Moroccan-born Belgian national suspected of running an extremist group has appealed a life sentence handed down by Morocco’s anti-terrorism court.
A new party loyal to Morocco’s King Mohammed plans to step up opposition to the country’s coalition government after local elections on Friday.
A Moroccan court convicted 18 people over a series of coordinated suicide bomb attacks in Casablanca six years ago that left 45 dead.
A blogger who accused Morocco’s monarchy of encouraging a culture of dependency where loyalty is rewarded with favours has been jailed.
Anger over poverty is simmering in Morocco, where popular protests against the high cost of living and unemployment occur regularly.
Fourteen people were killed and 26 injured when an apartment block being built in Morocco collapsed, the MAP news agency reported on Thursday, saying rescue workers were still at…
A Moroccan appeals court has upheld prison sentences for six men jailed for ”homosexuality”, lawyer Mohamed Sebbar said on Wednesday. The decision prompted Amnesty International…
It may be a far cry from the millions of blogs active in the West, but Morocco’s blogosphere has taken off as the liveliest free-speech zone in largely conservative Muslim North…
More than 50 people were missing after an immigrant boat sank off Morocco over the weekend, authorities said on Monday. Officials in the town of Dakhla, on the coast off the…
Draft Moroccan legislation has earmarked nearly 30% of the state’s 2008 budget for security, underscoring anti-terrorism concerns after spring suicide attacks, a government…
In his Saharan robes the tanned Frenchman passed unnoticed in Nouadhibou, a chaotic Mauritanian fishing port with an iron ore terminal and a lucrative second line in drug and…
Moroccan Sidi Kaddour Maksouri (123) is the world’s oldest living man, the newspaper al-Ahdate al-Maghribia reported on Wednesday, challenging the Guinness World Records book’s…
The South African wheelchair basketball team are on the brink of qualifying for the Paralympic Games in Beijing after advancing to the final of the qualifier on Saturday. Team…
The European Union has warned Morocco of the ”almost certain probability” of terrorist attacks in the North African country and urged more security at Western embassies and…
Morocco, which has slashed cannabis cultivation by nearly half over the past four years, hopes to eradicate the main remaining area of cultivation in the northern Rif mountains…
Morocco is facing an ”extreme” threat of more terror attacks in Casablanca and other cities following a spate of suicide bombings, a government spokesperson said on Wednesday.…
For a long time, Moroccans felt relatively safe from the Islamist terrorism plaguing neighbouring Algeria, but that sense of security is now definitively gone. A recent string of…
