Morocco has told government departments to cease cooperation and contacts with Germany's embassy in the North African kingdom due in part to Berlin's stance over Western Sahara, a senior...

The piece depicts the 12th Century Marrakech mosque at sunset with the backdrop of the Atlas Mountains

Morocco's Minister of State for Human Rights, Mustafa Ramid, has resigned from the government. The surprise move by the senior official in the Justice and Development Party came a...

The Arab Organisation for Human Rights in the UK (AOHR UK) today called on Morocco not to extradite Saudi-Australian academic [ to Riyadh, saying to do so "would would...

Former Moroccan Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane said that the Arab Spring was not over yet, Anadolu Agency reports. Speaking at the second conference of the Arab Council via video...

Parliament is expected to pass a law that will allow the farming, export and domestic sale of hashish also known as ‘kif’ for medical and industrial use

As internet penetration and smartphone usage increases across Africa, digital spaces have become increasingly important for organising political uprisings and opposition movements. In response, several of the continent's regimes...

Washington is reconsidering former President Donald Trump's recognition of Morocco's sovereignty over Western Sahara, the chargé d'affaires at the US embassy in Spain has said. In an interview with...

A Moroccan education union yesterday rejected educational and cultural normalisation with Israel following recent announcements by Rabat and Tel Aviv to implement joint exchange programmes. In a letter to...

Abdelilah Benkirane, former head of the Moroccan government and leader of the Justice and Development Party, announced on Thursday that the party "has a specific position on normalisation and...

Algerian Minister of Communication and government spokesman, Ammar Belhimer, said a "cyber war led by Israel and Morocco" was being waged against his country. In an interview with the...

Morocco on Friday began vaccinating people older than 65 years against the novel coronavirus, according to an official statement, Anadolu Agency reports. The move came a day after the North...

Around 130 poverty-stricken people were forced to covertly work in a parking lot under a residential building in Tangier, northern Morocco, sewing clothes for international brands. When the level...

Israeli Education Minister, Yoav Galant, yesterday agreed with his Moroccan counterpart, Said Amzazi, to start an educational exchange programme. In a phone call, Galant thanked Amzazi for the latter's...

Oman is satisfied with its current relationship with Israel, the foreign minister said yesterday, Reuters reported. "As regards Israel we are content so far with the level of our current relations...

The Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday summoned Spain's ambassador to Rabat to protest the Spanish police aggression against Moroccan minors in an immigration detention centre. This came...

Israel's new Chargé d'Affaires to Morocco David Govrin confirmed that his government expects direct flights between Israel and Morocco to start within two months. "An agreement has been reached between...

The unemployment rate in Morocco rose to 11.9 per cent of the working population last year, compared with 9.2 per cent in 2019. In a report issued yesterday, Morocco's...

Tunisia, Lebanon, Jordan, Morocco and Algeria announced Saturday more fatalities linked to the novel coronavirus as efforts continued to contain the disease, Anadolu Agency reported. Tunisia The Tunisian Health Ministry reported...

Moroccan authorities have been accused of silencing critics of King Mohammed VI's court, with reports that in some cases the government has resorted to using revenge porn. According to...

Last year's "Abraham Accords" agreement, under which the United Arab Emirates officially normalised ties with Israel, was seen largely as an unmasking of the UAE's long-standing covert links to...

The head of Israel's diplomatic mission in Morocco arrived in Rabat yesterday to expand bilateral political, tourism, economic and cultural ties, the Israeli Foreign Ministry announced in a statement....

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the National Security Council are exerting efforts to arrange a visit by Moroccan King Mohammad VI to Israel prior to the March election, Ynet...

Morocco's Justice and Development Party (JDP) yesterday warned of the dangers of normalising relations with Israel on the country's political, economic, social and cultural fabric. The party renewed its "absolute condemnation...

The Sahara Press Service (SPS) owned by the Polisario Front reported that the movement's forces bombed the Guerguerat region on Saturday evening. The news agency quoted a military source as saying that...

Libyan rivals agreed Friday on most criteria to select heads of sovereign positions, according to an official, Anadolu Agency reported. Earlier Friday, the fifth round of the Libyan political dialogue between the...

The fifth round of the Libyan political dialogue between the delegations of the Supreme Council of State and the Tobruk-based House of Representatives began in Morocco on Friday to...

Israel and Morocco inked an agreement Thursday to operate direct flights between their countries, according to the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, Anadolu Agency reported. The daily reported the deal without disclosing additional...

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has called for resuming negotiations between Morocco and the Polisario Front to reach a "fair and lasting solution" on the Western Sahara dispute. Sanchez...

On Monday, Algerian television broadcast scenes of massive land and air military manoeuvres performed by the Algerian army at the Tindouf border area adjacent to Morocco and Western Sahara,...

Abdelaziz Aftati, member of the General Secretariat of the Justice and Development Party (leader of the government coalition in Morocco) confirmed that the thinker and deputy, Abouzaid El Mokrie...

An Israeli romantic novel has become the first Hebrew book to be translated into Arabic in Morocco, the Jerusalem Post has reported. A Girl in a Blue Shirt will...