More than 2,100 people died following a 6.8 magnitude earthquake that rocked Morocco over the weekend, a death toll authorities believe will rise as they scramble to find survivors and reach rural areas that suffered the worst from the natural disaster, the Wall Street Journal...
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Moroccans took to the streets Monday to protest the killing of two vacationers by Algerian forces over the weekend, an incident that inflamed tensions between the two North African neighbors, the Associated Press reported. Algeria’s Defense Ministry admitted this week that its forces fired upon a...
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Israel officially recognized Moroccan sovereignty over the disputed territory of Western Sahara this week, a move that further solidifies ties between the two nations nearly three years after they agreed to normalize relations, Al Jazeera reported. Moroccan officials announced that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had...
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Moroccan lawmakers recently voted to “reconsider” their North African country’s relationship with the European Union. The origins of the diplomatic shift began with Morocco’s alleged persecution of journalists, as Reporters Without Borders recounted. The triggering event, however, was the European Parliament’s decision to urge Morocco...
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Moroccan lawmakers voted unanimously to review the country’s relationship with the European Parliament this week after the latter passed a resolution urging the North African nation to respect press freedoms, Agence France-Presse reported. Both Moroccan houses of parliament agreed to “reconsider (their) relations with the European...
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Algeria suspended a decades-old cooperation treaty with Spain this week amid a fight over the disputed territory of Western Sahara, the Local Spain reported Thursday. Algerian officials said they will suspend “the treaty of friendship, good neighborliness and co-operation” signed between the two countries in 2002....
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Morocco is establishing a regulatory agency that would oversee the country’s cannabis cultivation for medical use, the latest move by the deeply conservative North African kingdom to legalize the growth and sale of the narcotic plant, the Middle East Monitor reported. The National Agency for the...
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Algeria recalled its ambassador from Spain over the weekend in protest of Madrid’s decision to support a Moroccan autonomy plan for the disputed territory of Western Sahara, Agence France-Presse reported. On Friday, the Spanish government declared “a new stage” in its strained relations with Morocco and...
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