On August 8, 1956, a mining disaster in Belgium killed 262 men, including 136 Italians. Italy suspended the dispatch of miners. Belgium turned to other countries, including Morocco, with which it would sign a recruitment agreement in 1964.
After a flight that included a stop in Casablanca, a man was arrested at Málaga airport with nearly 712 grams of cocaine hidden in the reinforcements of his suitcases. Spain’s courts have now upheld his sentence of four years and three months in prison.
On Wednesday, October 28, around 500 tractors are expected in Madrid. Spanish agricultural organizations are denouncing their production costs and have placed the trade agreement with Morocco among the official targets of their protest.
MoroccoThe participation of the Polisario in a military exercise on Algerian territory alongside Algeria, Egypt, and Libya is interpreted as a provocation to Morocco.
MoroccoOn February 26, King Mohammed VI invited Moroccans to refrain from celebrating this year’s Eid al-Adha, scheduled for June. A call welcomed by low and modest income households for whom the sheep has become an inaccessible luxury.
MoroccoMorocco was the first nation to recognize the independence of the United States, well before France, the United Kingdom, and Germany. It was on December 1, 1777. Since then, the two countries have maintained excellent bilateral relations.
MoroccoDutch authorities are studying the possibility of legally importing hashish from Morocco to satisfy the ever-growing local demand.
MoroccoFRS Iberia Morocco/DFDS announced the cancellation of the Tarifa-Tangier City maritime line from Monday, May 5, 2025, after 25 years of service. This connection will now be operated by the maritime company Baleària.
MoroccoThe National Financial Intelligence Authority (ANRF) has launched an investigation following a bank alert on suspicions of fraud and money laundering by construction companies.
SportHervé Renard, former coach of Morocco, Zambia, Angola and Ivory Coast teams, includes Hakim Ziyech and three other Moroccan internationals in his starting eleven of African players he has coached since the beginning of his career.
MoroccoThe delay in the completion of the seawater desalination plant in the city of Dakhla, despite royal directives, has provoked the irritation of the Minister of Agriculture, Maritime Fisheries, Water and Forests, Ahmed El Bouari.
MoroccoA caid, head of an administrative annex in Tangier, was slapped on Friday by a citizen after preventing the latter from forcibly accessing the room where the ordinary May session of the city council was being held.
MoroccoFranco-Moroccan comedian and actor Jamel Debbouze expressed his astonishment at an incredible scene on May 1st in Paris, right in the city center.