The Latest Breaking News from Morocco

George Moore was competing in a gruelling marathon in Morocco when he collapsed in agony, only for his father Ian to continue the race according to a pact the pair had made

Morocco welcomed on Thursday Peru’s decision to withdraw recognition of the Polisario’s self-proclaimed Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR). Peru announced the decision after a "recent telephone conversation" between Foreign Minister Miguel Rodriguez Mackay and his Moroccan counterpart Nasser Bourita.

Victims of exhaustion, violence or disease, many migrants die each year on their journey to Europe. In Morocco, a country that lies on a common route taken by undocumented migrants to reach Spain, one volunteer organisation is working to identify those who died along the way and give them dignified…

A bus crash east of Morocco's economic capital Casablanca on Wednesday left 23 people dead, a health official said, marking one of the deadliest such accidents in recent years. The bus overturned on a bend of a motorway in Khouribga province in the morning, local authorities said, giving an initial…

Morrocco's judicial police brigade of the Mdiq-Fnideq prefecture arrested on Monday evening four people on suspicion of deliberately starting a fire and causing property losses in a public forest estate, the National Police (DGSN) said. The suspects are aged between 20 and 30. They were arrested as a result of…

The unemployment rate in Morocco among young individuals aged 15 to 24 years is 31.8%, the High Commission for Planning (HCP) revealed on Friday. This age group represents 5.9 million out of the kingdom’s 36 million total population, of which 16.3% have jobs (962,000) and 7.6% are unemployed (448,000). The…

The culture department at Morocco’s Ministry of Youth, Culture, and Communication has organized the second edition of the Taskiwin Festival under the theme “Taskiwin: Cultural Heritage and Majestic Civilization”, on August 12-14, in the city of Taroudant, east of Agadir. The event hosts several shows performed by bands and groups,…

Mohamed gave up farming because of successive droughts that have hit his previously fertile but isolated village in Morocco and because he just couldn't bear it any longer. "To see villagers rush to public fountains in the morning or to a neighbor to get water makes you want to cry,"…

In today’s Fiver: Milk Cup upsets of a sort, Morocco and much more

Morocco have sacked manager Vahid Halilhodzic just three months before the World Cup, their football federation confirmed on Thursday.

Halilhodzic has now suffered the extraordinary feat of being fired three times by national teams after they qualified for World Cup finals