Websites close to the Algerian regime are working to "steal" Moroccan productions of the Malhoun, an intangible, civilizational and cultural heritage of the kingdom that is about to be inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. Moroccan men of letters, artists, intellectuals and academics denounce this act.
Moroccans top the list of student visa applicants in France. They are followed by Algeria and Senegal.
Morocco ranks 3rd among the major potato producers in the Maghreb behind Algeria and Egypt. The kingdom is able to increase its export sales.
Morocco is at the top of the list of champagne importing countries in the Maghreb. This is revealed by the 2019 report of the Comité Interprofessionnel des Vins de Champagne (CIVC).
During the 110th week of the peaceful Hirak protests, the police arrested a Moroccan on Friday, March 26 in Algiers. He is a 30-year-old man in an irregular situation on Algerian territory.
For several weeks, Morocco has suspended air links with several countries, including Germany, Italy, Algeria, and Egypt. This measure, aimed at further securing the borders of the kingdom in the face of new variants of Covid-19, is having a negative impact on air traffic, much to the dismay of tourism professionals.
The Algerian authorities have prohibited Moroccan farmers in the border area of El Arja from cultivating agricultural land as of March 18. These farmers, deprived of their rights, denounce this decision which deprives them of their plantations and their homes.
Morocco is the 11th happiest country in Africa, 6th in the Arab world and 106th in the world, ahead of Algeria (12th, 7th and 109th) in the 2021 World Happiness Report ranking.
The police services arrested, this week, in Casablanca a Franco-Algerian and a Russian national, involved in various cases. They were both the subject of an international arrest warrant issued by Interpol.
Slowly but surely, Morocco is trying to reconquer "the points considered as liberated zones by the Polisario" in the Sahara. However, the tensions between the kingdom and the independence movement are not subsiding.
The ultimatum given to Moroccan farmers and private owners to evacuate the date palm plantations located in the locality of El Arja, Figuig province, located near the border between Morocco and Algeria expired on Thursday, March 18, 2021. This decision recalls the land recoveries in the 1970s, particularly those of Ksar Zenaga.
The security forces prevented the solidarity march organized on Thursday, March 18, the day of the ultimatum given to Moroccan farmers and private owners to evacuate the date palm plantations located in the locality of El Arja, province of Figuig located near the border between Morocco and Algeria.