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Morocco: Pressure on Prime Minister to resign over skyrocketing gasoline prices
By Ismail Bellaouali Morocco's Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch, a billionaire petrol baron, is facing a growing online campaign demanding he step down as fuel prices -- and energy firms' profits -- surge. The government of the North African kingdom, which is heavily...
Western Sahara: Morocco and Algeria entrenched in their positions, unwilling to compromise
Morocco: French billionaire Jacques Bouthier accused by four Moroccan women of sexual harassment
Morocco: Anger over soaring fuel prices
Regional crises: EU warns Algeria against “discriminatory treatment” of Spain
Algeria-Spain relations thrown into disarray after Madrid ended its neutrality on the Western Sahara
Spain warns Morocco not to weaponize immigration in their bilateral dealings
Moroccan national captured by Russian forces while fighting in Ukraine
Morocco: German cruise ship ‘Mein Schiff Herz’ prevented from entering Morocco over Covid-19 scare
Moroccans living abroad return home this summer in large numbers
Morocco facing a daunting economic outlook
Algeria suspends treaty of friendship with Spain over Western Sahara
Western Sahara human rights defender Sultana Khaya released after 19 months of house arrest
Morocco: World’s biggest producer of cannabis inches closer to legalizing it
Western Sahara: Reports of Moroccan security forces assaulting Sahrawi militants
Energy: Morocco convinces Nigeria to move forward with gas pipeline to Europe
Nigeria's government has directed its state-run oil company NNPC to implement a deal on a gas pipeline to Europe through Morocco. Africa's gas resources are increasingly in the spotlight as the European Union looks to wean itself off Russian supplies following the...
Terrorism: Members of 84 states and organizations meet in Marrakesh to discuss anti-terror strategy
Morocco: Dozens of teachers sent to prison for protesting and “insulting a state body”
Forty-five Moroccan teachers have been handed suspended prison sentences for attending unauthorised protests last year over a long-running contract dispute with the education ministry, their lawyer said Friday. The charges related to protests and strikes that have...
Morocco: Three-day strike in the transport sector over skyrocketing fuel price
MENA region confronted with dangerous wheat supply crisis
By Sarah Benhaida Russia's invasion of Ukraine could mean less bread on the table in Egypt, Lebanon, Yemen and elsewhere in the Arab world where millions already struggle to survive. The region is heavily dependent on wheat supplies from the two countries which are...
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