Morocco ranked 76th out of 116 countries in the EF English Proficiency Index 2024, scoring 479 points. While the country has shown steady progress, it still falls in the «low proficiency» category.
The Education First English Proficiency Index, (...)
Leila Hanafi, a Moroccan-American lawyer who represents the Moroccan diaspora and its diversity in North America, uses her career at the World Bank and academic role at George Washington University to promote justice and the rule of law, (...)
كتبتُ تدوينة تقول: "أيها الصّاحون إلى دعوة ديمستورا لتقسيم الصحراء: تُفحمُ "ألمعية" بوريطة في اجترار نفس المنطلق والخطاب منذ 1975، والنفخ في رمزية القنصليات الأجنبية. وتحوّل مطلب "تصفية الاستعمار" لدى البوليساريو إلى تصفيةٍ بتسويةٍ!" فانتبه إلى (...)
Algeria is preparing to celebrate the 70th anniversary of its armed struggle against France on November 1. On this occasion, the Algerian government hopes to bring together the presidents of Mauritania and Tunisia, the president of the Presidential (...)
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune announced plans for an imminent Algerian-Libyan-Tunisian summit, continuing trilateral consultations to strengthen cooperation between the three countries. Despite efforts to include Mauritania, Algeria wants (...)
In its Freedom on the Net report, Freedom House classified Morocco as a partially free country, scoring 54 out of 100 points, up from 51 the previous year. The report highlights ongoing violations of users' rights and content restrictions, (...)
Teams from Morocco, Tunisia, and Libya have automatically qualified for the final phase of the African Nations Championship (CHAN) for Local Players, scheduled to take place from February 1 to 28, 2025 in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. The (...)
Morocco Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita met with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Washington on Tuesday. Before the talks began, Blinken told the press that they would discuss «a variety of issues that we work on together, particularly (...)
Morocco ranked 66th globally in the 2024 Global Innovation Index, performing notably well in creativity and exceeding expectations for lower-middle-income countries. The report also highlighted Morocco's rapid rise in the rankings over the past (...)
The Sahara issue was not on the agenda at the high-level meeting between the African Union, the European Union, and the United Nations, held in New York on Sunday, September 22. However, African Union Commission President Moussa Faki, European (...)
Morocco improved its ranking to 90th out of 193 countries in the 2024 E-Government Index, moving up 11 places from 2022. The report highlighted Morocco's steady progress in digital governance since 2008, placing it fourth in Africa behind South (...)
The Sahara Desert experienced an unusual heavy rainfall event this September, bringing significant precipitation to parts of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya.
NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer captured the resulting runoff and (...)
Morocco experienced its hottest year on record in 2023, with extreme heatwaves and severe droughts that significantly impacted agriculture and water resources, as noted in a report by the World Meteorological Organization.
2023 was officially the (...)
The Sloughi, a prized North African sighthound, has been celebrated for its exceptional hunting abilities and noble appearance for centuries. Locals call it «El Hor», the pure, for its long history and esteemed status.
The Sloughi is renowned for (...)
Wednesday, incumbent President Abdelmadjid Tebboune's election campaign made a stopover in the southern wilaya of Djanet. Given the region's proximity to Algeria's neighbors, Tebboune addressed this topic in his speech delivered to a closed room.
He (...)
In his book «Memoirs of a Diplomat on Moroccan-Mauritanian Relations», Moroccan ambassador Kacem Zhiri sheds light on a chapter in the history of Moroccan support for the Algerian National Liberation Front in Africa. This chapter, part of the (...)
The 80th anniversary of the Allied landings in Provence in 1944 served as the backdrop for a significant meeting between Moroccan and Tunisian officials. On the sidelines of the event, Tunisia's Foreign Minister, Nabil Ammar, met with Morocco's (...)
Getty Imagesتظهر الصورة مبانٍ تضررت بسبب الحرب في إحدى ضواحي طرابلس في 28 مايو/أيار 2024
بعد أعوام من الهدوء النسبي في ليبيا، عاد شبح الحرب مجدداً بعد أن قتل تسعة أشخاص خلال اشتباكات بين مجموعات مسلحة متنافسة في منطقة تاجوراء شرقي العاصمة الليبية (...)
The next ordinary summit of the African Union, scheduled for February 2025, will see a race between Morocco and Algeria to win the first vice-presidency of the AU Commission, a position that is designated for the northern region of the continent.
On (...)
Morocco stands out as the leader in the Maghreb, ranking 68th globally with access to 72 countries without a visa or with a visa on arrival, according to the Henley Passport Index 2024. On a continental scale, the kingdom is in 14th position, behind (...)
Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita received the new Secretary General of the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU), Tarek Ben Salem, today in Rabat. He stressed «the importance of strengthening the work of the AMU in order to realize the aspirations of the peoples (...)
The Polisario finally responded to the intervention of Morocco's permanent representative to the UN, Omar Hilale, at the last meeting of the Committee of 24, held on June 10 and 11 in New York.
In a letter addressed to the current President of the (...)
The draw for the qualifiers for the Africa Cup of Nations (CAN 2025), held today in Johannesburg, South Africa, has placed the Moroccan national team in Group B alongside Gabon, the Central African Republic and Lesotho.
The 48 teams competing in the (...)
On Tuesday, July 2, Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita received the outgoing Secretary General of the Arab Maghreb Union in Rabat, Moroccan diplomacy announced on X. This meeting comes a day after Tunisian Taïeb Baccouche's mission at the head of the (...)
Before the Sahara turned into a desert, warning signs emerged according to German scientists who are trying to predict major shift in weather patterns.
Dramatic shifts in weather patterns, like the Sahara's transformation from a lush landscape to (...)