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• Moroccan Teachers’ Group Denies Reports of Student Disappearances in UK Trip
  2 February 2023, by Sylvanus

  The Moroccan Association of English Teachers has provided a formal denial regarding the escape of four Moroccan students during a school trip to Cambridge, in England.
  "Following what some Facebook pages and news sites have shared about some students who did not return from the trip to London, we inform you that we have no relationship with them, and that all the students who participated have returned," the Moroccan Association of English Teachers said on its Facebook page, threatening (…)

• Moroccan Students Vanish During UK School Trip, Sparking Concerns
  31 January 2023, by Sylvanus

  While they were on a school trip to Cambridge, England, four Moroccan students disappeared without a trace. More harragas?
  After his school trip to England, a delegation composed of students, teachers and the organizing committee did not return to Agadir complete. Four students were missing. They took advantage of the trip to disappear into thin air, reports the Arabic daily Assabah. The association that organized the school trip to Cambridge and the regional education authority in the (…)

• Unearthed Love Letters Reveal Forbidden Romances Between Moroccan Soldiers and Spanish Women Under Franco Regime
  1 January 2024, by Sylvanus

  Historians from the University of Cambridge have just revealed hundreds of love letters between Moroccan soldiers and Spanish women that were confiscated and hidden for decades, before Morocco’s independence in 1956.
  The dictatorial regime of Francisco Franco Bahamonde weighed heavily to prevent relations between Moroccan soldiers and Spanish women. Considering these relationships as a threat to the Francoist colonial hierarchy, he assigned himself the mission of seizing the love letters (…)