MPs focused on last week’s football-related violence in Amsterdam in a heated debate on Wednesday, with far-right leader Geert Wilders calling for withdrawing Dutch nationality from the perpetrators and GroenLinks PvdA leader Frans Timmermans stating that criticism of Israel cannot be equated with anti-Semitism. Caroline van der Plas, leader of the pro-countryside BBB, blamed the violence on “Moroccan and North …
ALGIERS, Algeria — Long-standing tensions between Morocco and Algeria have moved up a notch with a deadly confrontation at sea last week between the Algerian Coast Guard and several men on water scooters. Algeria’s Defense Ministry has acknowledged that its forces fired on a group of people on water scooters who strayed into Algerian waters from Morocco last Tuesday, and …
MADRID — Rights groups on Friday denounced a lack of justice and transparency over the deaths of at least 37 migrants last year during a mass attempt to cross the border from Morocco into the Spanish enclave city of Melilla. Ahead of the tragedy’s first anniversary on Saturday, Amnesty International said the Spanish and Moroccan authorities were “preventing attempts to …
How Morocco went big on solar energy Getty Images Morocco is home to the world's largest concentrated solar array Morocco has become famous for its vast, world-leading solar arrays. Morocco's national action on climate change dates back to the mid-2000s, when the country made the decision to become a regional leader in clean energy and to push forward massive renewables …
Recognition bolsters the kingdom’s claim to the territory, but experts say it will not affect UN or EU positions. In its proclamation, the Trump administration said it hoped its recognition of Morocco’s claim to Western Sahara would spur discussions to resolve the conflict in line with what is known as the Moroccan autonomy plan. But he added: “I don’t think …
