The Latest Breaking News from Morocco

Pairs 2024 Olympics football draw in full: Emma Hayes handed tough group in first USA tournament

Football tournament begins in July

Evening Standard · Mar 20, 2024

Paris Olympics football draw: French men favourites to win; women to play holders Canada

Thierry Henry's France side are firm favourites to progress following a kind group draw for men's football at the 2024 Olympic Games on Wednesday, as the hosts wait to see if Kylian Mbappé will be made available. In the women's draw, hosts France are set to face holders Canada while…

France 24 · Mar 20, 2024

Claims that Palestinians are staging videos of their injuries are, once again, proved false

Pro-Israel propaganda sites have been increasingly claiming that videos showing the wounded or injured in Gaza are actually products of "Pallywood" or scenes staged to drum up sympathy for the Palestinians. These campaigns regularly resurface a video that they say offers proof of Palestinians staging a hospital scene. However, the…

France 24 · Mar 20, 2024

Morocco’s Marrakesh is awakening slowly from the earthquake damage

In the medina beloved by tourists, signs of recovery lie side-by-side with lasting damage.

Al Jazeera · Mar 14, 2024

‘This music survived in a network of phones’: El Wali, the shapeshifting voice of Saharan struggle

Since the 1970s this band in Western Sahara, made up of Sahrawis who oppose Moroccan rule, have made spellbinding music – and a long-awaited new collection of music is being prepared

The Guardian - UK · Mar 13, 2024

Turkey, Iran, Morocco Joust For Greater Role In Sahel

Turkey, Iran and Morocco are vying for a greater economic and military role in Africa's Sahel after former colonial ruler France's forced withdrawal from the volatile region.

International Business Times · Mar 12, 2024

French court upholds decision to deport Moroccan imam accused of hate speech

A Paris administrative court on Monday upheld a decision to deport French-born Moroccan imam Hassan Iquioussen. Sent back to Morocco in 2023 after being accused of hate speech, Iquioussen says he will appeal the verdict.

Radio France Internationale · Mar 12, 2024

Six months after the earthquake, Morocco’s Atlas villagers still in tents

Villagers are still huddled in their flimsy tents, waiting for assistance payments to rebuild their lives.

Al Jazeera · Mar 8, 2024

‘It’s effortless’: the Moroccan art star who shuns paint and works from his bed

Soufiane Ababri is so against the notion of painters at their easels that he always makes his erotic, irreverent and riotously colourful drawings lying down. Ahead of a major UK show, he reels off the many advantages

The Guardian - UK · Mar 5, 2024

‘It has the smell of the oasis’: how palm husks became prize-winning Moroccan art

Female weavers in a Berber-speaking village helped Amina Agueznay to create a work that won the Norval Sovereign African art prize

The Guardian - UK · Feb 28, 2024