The 20th edition of the Mawazine – Rhythms of the World Festival, scheduled for June 20–28, 2025, in Rabat, is already shaping up to be legendary. Held under the High Patronage of King Mohammed VI, the festival has just unveiled the first wave of headliners—and it's a star-studded trio: Will Smith, Kid Cudi, and Salif Keita. Three global icons, three powerful styles, and one shared promise: to ignite the Moroccan capital with music. Will Smith, four-time Grammy winner and
The Algerians have spared no effort in trying to win over President Donald Trump, even going so far as to grant the exploitation rights for the Gara Djebilet iron mine in the Tindouf region. Under the terms of the 1972 agreement between King Hassan II and President Boumediene, half of the mine was to be allocated to Morocco.
The fragile rapprochement between Paris and Algiers has just unraveled. The trigger? The explosive case surrounding the alleged kidnapping in France of Algerian dissident Amir Boukhors, better known as AmirDZ, and the indictment of an Algerian consular official suspected of involvement. Three men, including an employee at the Algerian consulate in Créteil, were indicted on Friday in Paris for charges including arrest, kidnapping, unlawful confinement or detention followed by release
A new wave of cyberattacks is reigniting tensions between Moroccan and Algerian hacker groups. On Saturday, an Algerian collective claimed responsibility for a large-scale operation that targeted several Moroccan government websites, disrupting various online services.
On the sidelines of the Annual Investment Meeting (AIM), the Moroccan Agency for Investment and Export Development (AMDIE) hosted an economic forum titled «Morocco Now», centered on the strategic partnership between Morocco and the United Arab Emirates. Held under the theme «From Vision to Action: Morocco & UAE Shaping a Bright Future Together», the event brought together key economic players from both countries—public and private sectors alike—as
The Moroccan consulate in Marseille experienced a chaotic incident on Friday, April 11. A 30-year-old Algerian man, who was in France illegally, was arrested after threatening to kill the vice-consul and assaulting a security officer, Le Journal du Dimanche reports. According to a local source contacted by Yabiladi, the man arrived at the consulate around 2:30 p.m. on a scooter. Married to a Moroccan citizen and father to a daughter with her, he came to collect a certificate of Moroccan
Former Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has revealed that Morocco consulted Spain on its autonomy initiative for Western Sahara before presenting it to the UN Security Council in April 2007, according to an Iberian media outlet. «I remember very well when Foreign Minister Miguel Ángel Moratinos presented the proposal to me to hear my opinion and begin working on it», Zapatero recalls in his new book, The Peaceful Solution, published on March
On Saturday, the «Rabouni camp», the administrative headquarters of the Polisario Front, was home to a protest in front of the offices of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Sahrawi families, mourning the deaths of their loved ones at the hands of the Algerian army, gathered to express their anger. The turnout, however, was limited—around twenty people, mostly women and a few men. Many potential protesters were deterred by fears of retaliation from Polisario
كشف رئيس الوزراء الإسباني السابق، خوسيه لويس رودريغيز ثاباتيرو، أن المغرب استشار إسبانيا بشأن مبادرة الحكم الذاتي للصحراء الغربية قبل تقديمها إلى مجلس الأمن في أبريل 2007، وفقًا لما ذكره وسيلة إعلام إيبيرية. وقال ثاباتيرو في كتابه الجديد، "الحل السلمي"، الذي نُشر في 27 مارس
موجة جديدة من الهجمات الإلكترونية تعيد إشعال التوترات بين القراصنة المغاربة والجزائريين. هذا السبت، أعلن مجموعة من القراصنة الجزائريين عن تنفيذ عملية واسعة النطاق استهدفت عدة مواقع مؤسسية مغربية، مما أدى إلى شل بعض الخدمات الإلكترونية.