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From September 4 to November 19, the six days of qualifying for the next Africa Cup of Nations have produced the definitive list of teams qualified for this continental competition. Tanzania, Botswana and Mozambique are the last to embark this Tuesday, November 19, for the AFCON 2025 in Morocco. From …

French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Morocco on Monday, where he is due to discuss partnerships on trade, climate change and immigration. President Emmanuel Macron will meet King Mohammed VI and Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch, and will also address parliament doing his three-day visit. His visit is intended to strengthen …

A case of monkeypox has been confirmed in Marrakech, Morocco, prompting the authorities to step up health surveillance. This case marks the first infection reported in the country since the start of the widely publicized global Mpox epidemic. In an official statement, the Ministry of Health announced that a patient …

Moroccan police announced the seizure of 1.4 tonnes of cocaine, hidden in the form of bananas, during a joint operation with Spanish police, local media reported. The cocaine was found concealed in banana boxes inside a shipping container that was aboard a vessel originating from South America and headed to …

Moroccan police announced on Friday that they had seized 1.37 tonnes of cocaine in the large city of Casablanca, Reuters agency reported. The drug was concealed in a cargo of imported frozen fish found at a distribution company in Morocco’s largest city, it said in a statement. Preliminary findings suggest …

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a $1.3bn (£1bn) loan to help Morocco improve its preparedness against natural disasters, three weeks after an earthquake killed nearly 3,000 people in the country. Some Moroccans criticised the government for its handling of the 8 September earthquake in the High Atlas mountains, …

Morocco’s King Mohammed VI has said that the country will spend $12bn to rebuild the regions destroyed by the 8 September earthquake. The funds will also be used to support the more than 4.2 million people in the provinces most affceted by the earthquake. The palace said on Wednesday said …

There’s been criticism in Morocco of the speed of the official response to Friday’s earthquake, which is now known to have killed more than 2,800 people. Heavy lifting equipment has begun to arrive in remote regions of the Atlas mountains, which have been the hardest-hit. But in many areas villagers …

The French Interior Minister declared on France 2 that Morocco, faced with a deadly earthquake, is capable of facing the difficulties alone. Guest of France 2 this Monday morning, the interior Minister reaffirmed the position of the executive on the earthquake which struck this Maghreb country in the night from …

A Moroccan man accused of criticising the country’s king on social media has been sentenced to five years in prison local media reported, citing his lawyer. Said Boukioud was charged with “undermining the monarchy” for comments he posted on Facebook in 2020 criticising Morocco’s normalisation of ties with Israel. He …