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The London-based RSHP – working with ALA Concept and EGIS – has won the international design competition for the $1.2bn new terminal at Casablanca’s Mohammed V International Airport, according to UK’s Architecture Journal. RSHP (Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners), in collaboration with Moroccan firm ALA Concept and French engineering firm Egis, had been selected as […]
Morocco produced an average of 1.6 million tons of barley per year between 2021 and 2023, making it the top North African country, meeting 80% of its local demand, according to data released by UN Food & Agriculture Organization. Barley is Morocco’s second most widely grown cereal after wheat. It is primarily used as fodder […]
U.S. Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), and Rick Scott (R-Fla.) have introduced the Polisario Front Terrorist Designation Act of 2026. The move comes as the U.S. House of Representatives is considering a bipartisan bill tabled last June by Republican Joe Wilson (South-Carolina) and Democrat Jimmy Panetta (CA) for branding the Algeria-backed Polisario militia […]
Former United Nations envoy Christopher Ross has once again exposed his impartiality in his latest commentary on the Sahara conflict in which he put forward an assessment reflecting long standing positions aligned with Algeria and the Polisario separatists, instead of viewing the dispute from the lenses of a neutral mediator. In his recent analysis published […]
The London-based RSHP – working with ALA Concept and EGIS – has won the international design competition for the $1.2bn new terminal at Casablanca’s Mohammed V International Airport, according to UK’s Architecture Journal. RSHP (Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners), in collaboration with Moroccan firm ALA Concept and French engineering firm Egis, had been selected as […]
The Sahara dispute is increasingly viewed as a direct confrontation between Morocco and Algeria, with the Polisario Front serving as an Algerian proxy, according to a new assessment by the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), an influential Moscow‑based foreign‑policy think tank. The roughly 100‑page RIAC report on Middle Eastern and North African conflicts says Morocco’s […]
Dr. Sofia Ghacham, electrical engineer, ICT researcher, and founder of Women in AI Morocco, made the case that artificial intelligence cannot reach its full potential without the full participation of women — and that Morocco, despite its academic promise, still has significant ground to cover. The path to AI advocacy of Ghacham, who made the […]
Morocco produced an average of 1.6 million tons of barley per year between 2021 and 2023, making it the top North African country, meeting 80% of its local demand, according to data released by UN Food & Agriculture Organization. Barley is Morocco’s second most widely grown cereal after wheat. It is primarily used as fodder […]
