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  • Iconic Renault 12 and Peugeot 504: Vehicles of North African Diaspora’s Annual Homecoming
    17 October 2024, by Sylvanus

    In an interview, Mohamed El Khatib, playwright and stage director, discusses the importance of the old Renault 12 and Peugeot 504 overloaded cars used by thousands of North Africans who returned to Morocco and Algeria during the holidays.
    "These are two totally iconic vehicle models and these are two cars that carry stories. They are formidable story machines. It’s a kind of diversion, that is to say that I consider the automobile as part of our heritage, our industrial heritage. And as (…)

  • Maghreb Nations Unite to Seek UNESCO Heritage Status for Couscous
    7 August 2019, by Bladi.net

    What diplomacy has not yet managed, a simple dish is doing. It is a common cultural and culinary cause that Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Mauritania have decided to carry, with one voice and a unique initiative, to UNESCO, regarding couscous.
    For these four countries, the question is to succeed in having couscous adopted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, as an intangible heritage of humanity. For this cause, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and (…)

  • Arab ’Voice’ Returns with Star-Studded Jury, Including Moroccan Diva Samira Said
    12 August 2019, by Bladi.net

    For the fifth season of the program, "The Voice" (Arab version), the jury will be composed of the Emirati artist, Ahlam, the Egyptian star, Mohamed Hamaki, the super star, Ragheb Alama, and the Moroccan diva, Samira Said. The month of August will mark the start of filming, announced the channel’s management.
    "The Voice", in its Arab version, will have as jury members great figures of Oriental music. In addition to the aforementioned names, many semi-professional Moroccan talents including (…)

  • Morocco Ranks 5th in Middle East and North Africa for Expat Quality of Life
    10 September 2019, by Bladi.net

    Morocco has just outperformed other countries in terms of quality of life for expatriates. It thus finds itself in the fifth place of the countries of the Middle East and North Africa.
    This Expatriate Quality of Life Index takes into account factors belonging to several different sub-categories: leisure, health and well-being, security, personal happiness, travel and transportation, as well as digital life.
    Recalling Morocco’s performance, Challenge reports that the Kingdom ranks 27th (…)

  • Arab Maghreb Union to Hold First Summit in 25 Years, Reviving Regional Cooperation
    14 November 2019, by Kamal

    25 years after their last meeting in Tunisia, a summit of the Heads of State of the five Arab Maghreb countries will be held in February 2020 in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. The information has just been revealed by the Secretary General of the Union, Tayeb El Bakkouch.
    Since 1994, no meeting has been held by the Heads of State of the five member countries, due to the diplomatic crisis between Rabat and Algiers. An incident that, according to Alyaoum24, has impacted the activities (…)

  • Maghreb Leaders Urge Calm as Morocco-Algeria Tensions Escalate
    4 September 2021, by Sylvanus

    Moroccan and Algerian personalities have, in a petition, expressed their great concern about the current escalation in relations between Rabat and Algiers. They call "on all people and organizations of goodwill in the two countries, and beyond the Maghreb, to act for a return to reason".
    The Moroccan, Khadija Ryadi, former president of the AMDH, winner of the UN Human Rights Prize, the Algerian Lotfi Maherzi, academic, former rector

  • Survey: 90% of Moroccans Support Reopening Border with Algeria
    26 February 2020, by Kamal

    9 out of 10 Moroccans are in favor of reopening the Moroccan-Algerian borders, according to the results of a public survey conducted by the Moroccan Center for Policy Studies and Analysis.
    These data were revealed during a press conference organized in Rabat, in parallel with other findings of the survey on "Maghreb integration 2020".
    Conducted between October 15 and December 15, 2019, the survey was carried out on a random sample of 1,200 Moroccan citizens, spread across 12 regions of (…)

  • Arms Race Escalates Between Morocco and Algeria, Raising Conflict Concerns
    3 December 2024, by Sylvanus

    Morocco and Algeria are engaged in an arms race to the point of fearing the possibility of a war in the Maghreb.
    Since the cooling of their relations due in particular to the Sahara issue, Morocco and Algeria have embarked on a frantic arms race. "The surest sign of this is the increase in military spending in Algeria as well as in Morocco," warns El Confidencial. Algeria has allocated $21.6 billion to its army, compared to $12 billion in 2023. It is devoting 23.

  • Roger Milla Sparks Controversy with Comments on North African Nations in African Football
    12 January 2022, by Sylvanus

    "The Maghreb countries, they are the ones who always cause trouble. It is they who always cause disorder, I am sorry. I will tell them here as their brother, whether it is Morocco, Egypt or others, that it is not normal. If they are not Africans, let them play for Europe, for Asia or for others, but let them not come to cause trouble in the African continent," fumed Roger Milla in an interview with TV5 Monde. The former Cameroonian international blames Rabat and Cairo for having voted to (…)

  • Spanish Police Chief Faces Racist Backlash Over Moroccan Heritage
    15 January, by Sylvanus

    In Spain, the new national police commissioner in Jaén, Laila Idriss Hajj Mohamed, is the target of a racist campaign due to her Moroccan origins.
    "Laila Idriss Hajj Mohamed is the target of a vile racist campaign by Spaniards who have not accepted the appointment of this woman to a senior position within the National Police." On the web, the comments are pouring in. "Your leaders are also high treason collaborators and will be tried when the time comes, failed mercenaries," can be read (…)