Tag Archives: Morocco

Morocco beat Spain on penalty shootouts to qualify for the quarter-finals of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. The Atlas Lions won the penalty shootouts by 3-0 to snatch the quarter-finals ticket from the 2010 World Cup champions. Morocco held Spain to a goalless match which lasted for 120 minutes …

On 24 June 2022, disturbing videos started circulating online, showing violent clashes between African migrants and Moroccan border guards. The footage was filmed on a small piece of land where Morocco meets Spain – a gateway into Europe. These videos revealed shocking evidence of migrants being restrained and severely beaten. …

The Moroccan government has issued 10 permits for farmers to legally grow cannabis for industry and export for the first time. Farmers in the northern regions of al-Hoceima, Chefchaouen and Taounate will be allowed to produce and sell cannabis for medical, pharmaceutical, and industrial use, in accordance with a law …

The final of the African Women’s Cup of Nation’s is underway as hosts Morocco take on South Africa. The winner of the tie will not just be getting the gold medal and trophy, the team will also be named the best women’s national team on the continent. That award category …

The Black Maidens of Ghana beat Morocco 2-0 in an international friendly match played at the Accra Sports Stadium on Saturday. A goal each from Stella Nyamekye and Georgina Ayisha were enough to give Ghana the upper hand over their Moroccan counterpart in the first half. After the break, Mariam …

Morocco is holding a funeral for “little Rayan”, a five-year-old boy who died after being trapped in a well for four days. Rayan Oram fell down the 32m (104ft) well on 1 February, sparking painstaking efforts to rescue him. Hundreds gathered at the well, with the rescue efforts garnering media …

Moroccan emergency crews found a five-year-old boy dead at the bottom of a well late Saturday in a tragic end to a painstaking five-day rescue operation that gripped the nation and beyond. “Following the tragic accident which cost the life of the child Rayan Oram, His Majesty King Mohammed VI …

Exactly forty-six years ago today (November 6, 1975), King Hassan II of Morocco made a historic speech calling on the Moroccan people to undertake a long, peaceful march to the south to liberate the Sahara which was under Spanish occupation. It is famously known as the Green March, an unprecedented …

Morocco’s long-ruling Islamists have suffered a crushing defeat in parliamentary elections to liberal parties seen as close to the palace, according to provisional results announced early Thursday. The Justice and Development Party (PJD), which headed the ruling coalition for a decade, saw its support collapse from 125 seats in the …

The King of Morocco, Mohammed VI, denounced in a speech “methodical attacks” against his country “by certain countries and organizations known to be hostile”, which he did not name. Morocco, like some Arab Maghreb countries, is facing deliberate and premeditated aggression. Clinging to (…) obsolete considerations, the enemies of the …