One year after King Mohammed VI and the former South African President Jacob Zuma met, relations between the two countries remained stuck in a dichotomy between politics and economy.
After working for years as a consular official in Düsseldorf, Moroccan national Mohammed Assila became an expert in teaching Islam in Spain before serving as a member of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany.
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) decided on Friday to withdraw the 2019 African Cup of Nations hosting right from Cameroon. The decision sets more chances for Morocco which hosted a similar tournament in 1988.
The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency announced on November the 29th that the US is selling Morocco 162 Abrams tanks for USD 1.259 billion. The sale, which has not been concluded yet, is conducted through the Excess Defense Article program.
In 1790, the South Carolina legislature passed the Moor Sundry Act after four couples coming from Morocco signed a petition, demanding the authorities to grant them the status of white free people.
More than 20 NGOs and pro-Polisario bodies operating in the Sahara and the Tindouf camps urged the European Parliament, Tuesday, to vote against the fisheries agreement. On the same day in Brussels, the Committee of Permanent Representatives voted in favor of the treaty concluded between Morocco and European Commission.
Ranked 103rd by the Prosperity Index, Morocco has fallen in the ranking conducted by the Legatum Institute.
Second-generation adults of Moroccan descent born in the Netherlands in 1990 prefer to get married later in life when compared to their older siblings born in 1980. The trend affect other aspects of their lives, including motherhood.
Morocco and Algeria have not been on good terms since a long time. Indeed, the proposal made public by King Mohammed VI to strengthen ties between the two nations has fallen on deaf ears.
On the 5th and 6th of December, Morocco, the Polisario, Algeria and Mauritania are sending delegations to Geneva to attend a round table on the Western Sahara conflict. The names of the officials participating to the meeting have been revealed.