• What had begun as an issue of decolonization erupted into armed conflict, as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro (Polisario Front), the Western Saharan liberation movement, fought for independence from Morocco, and over 100,000 Western Saharan (Sahrawi) refugees fled to southwestern Algeria, where they settled in tent camps. (hrw.org)
  • In 1988, both Morocco and the Polisario Front agreed to a United Nations (U.N.) Settlement Plan (the "Settlement Plan. (hrw.org)
  • Often called the "Red City," Marrakech, Morocco, requires sun protection and headgear of some kind all year-round, even during winter . (factretriever.com)
  • Cette ligne, la première ligne à grande vitesse sur le continent africain, doit être étendue vers Rabat, Casablanca puis, plus tard, vers Marrakech et Agadir. (blogspot.com)
  • This railway line, the first high-speed line on the African continent, should be extended to Rabat, Casablanca and later to Marrakech and Agadir. (blogspot.com)
  • On 11 December 1988, Morocco opened its embassy in Dhaka, Bangladesh and on 28 August 1990 Bangladesh opened its embassy in Rabat, Morocco. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Moroccan Human Rights Organization (OMDH) was founded in 1988 by a group of Moroccan professionals to address the problem of human rights violations in the kingdom. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The region constituting Morocco has been inhabited since the Paleolithic era over 300,000 years ago, and the first Moroccan state was established by Idris I in 788. (explained.today)
  • 1 On 19 February 2012, Casablanca's February 20th Movement (hereafter referred to as the M20) celebrated its first anniversary in more than 80 different Moroccan towns and cities. (cairn-int.info)
  • I hope to use this conspicuous thing of today's Morocco to critically intervene in the historiography of the Moroccan landscape, review the global imaginary of what a characteristically Moroccan architecture is, and more generally contribute to timely debates in environmental history, planning, and aesthetics. (princeton.edu)
  • Dubbed Moroccan, or Berber, "whiskey," tea has become the national drink of Morocco. (factretriever.com)
  • It was introduced to Morocco in 1854 when blockaded British merchants uploaded large quantities of tea at major Moroccan ports, Thé à la Menthe (Green Mint Tea) is Chinese green tea brewed with a handful of mint leaves and liberally loaded up with sugar . (factretriever.com)
  • Its capital is Rabat , while its largest city is Casablanca. (explained.today)
  • Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa . (explained.today)
  • I am a subject of the Kingdom of Morocco, where I was trained and worked (briefly) as an architect. (princeton.edu)
  • After its independence in 1956, the Kingdom of Morocco demanded the 'liberation' of Western Sahara, considering that that territory belonged to it. (wsrw.org)
  • If the answer to the first question was in the negative, it also requested the International Court of Justice to rule on the issue of the legal ties between Western Sahara and the Kingdom of Morocco and the Mauritanian entity. (wsrw.org)
  • [16] Morocco is a unitary semi- constitutional monarchy with an elected parliament. (explained.today)
  • Sultan Mohammed V, the current monarch's grandfather, organized Morocco as a constitutional monarchy and assumed the title of King in 1957. (factretriever.com)
  • Following intermittent riots and revolts against colonial rule, in 1956, Morocco regained its independence and reunified. (explained.today)
  • those from the ribats ' [7] ) was an imperial Berber Muslim dynasty centered in the territory of present-day Morocco . (wikipedia.org)
  • Este estudio se realizó durante el periodo 2007-2017 en el complejo ecológico de los humedales de Jijel, en el noreste de Argelia. (museucienciesjournals.cat)
  • As Spain prepared to withdraw from its colonial territory in 1975, Morocco stepped in and occupied most of the Western Sahara. (hrw.org)
  • On 10 December 2015, the Court of Justice of the European Union annulled the EU-Morocco agricultural agreement in so far as it applies to Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • 1 Western Sahara is a territory in north-west Africa bordered by Morocco to the north, Algeria to the north-east, Mauritania to the east and south, while its west coast faces the Atlantic. (wsrw.org)
  • Since independence, Morocco has remained relatively stable. (explained.today)
  • 1 The referendum would ask Sahrawis to choose between independence or integration into Morocco. (hrw.org)
  • This strategy seems to work in their favour and against the radical Islamic movements who continue to boycott elections, like the Islamic Jihad in Palestine, the Saadet Party [1] in Turkey, the Justice and Charity party in Morocco, the cluster of groups which advocate violent action in Egypt, Algeria, etc. and against those who are gambling on democracy weakening their influence. (iemed.org)
  • [15] Centuries of Arab migration to the Maghreb since the 7th century shifted the demographic scope of Morocco. (explained.today)
  • An Arabic name for Morocco, al-Magrib al-Aqsa , means "the extreme west" and attests to Morocco's place as the westernmost country in the Arab world. (factretriever.com)
  • The Information Systems Engineering Research Team (ERISI) of ENSA Tetuan, Morocco has the great pleasure to invite you to participate in an International Workshop on Industry 4.0 and Digital Transformation, organized in the form of plenary sessions, seminars and collaborative workshops to be held over three days from 10 to 12 March 2023 at the ENSA of Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tetouan, Morocco. (ac.ma)
  • We look forward to meeting you at the National School of Applied Science of Tetouan (ENSATE), Morocco during March 2023! (ac.ma)
  • Assistant Professor Anderson further achieved a certificate from the Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, USA via the then Family Planning Association of Liberia (FPAL) in the area of Information, Education, and Communication (IEC) in 1988. (gnnliberia.com)
  • I quit Groupe3Architectes (Rabat) when I was granted a Fulbright fellowship to study urbanization in mountain settlements in Morocco, which earned me an M.S. in Geography from the University of Montana. (princeton.edu)
  • Morocco is one of the world's largest producers of illicit hashish. (factretriever.com)
  • Morocco is the largest processor and exporter of sardines in the world. (factretriever.com)
  • The issue of this stamp symbolizes the renewal experienced by the railway sector in Morocco, initiated in particular by King Mohammed VI, who inaugurated, on November 15, 2018, in the presence of Emmanuel Macron, the high-speed line (LGV) between Tangier and Kenitra (200 km - commercial speed of 320 km/h). (blogspot.com)
  • Oldham lived in Louisville until he graduated high school in 1988. (generalpalace.com)
  • In 1989, he established with his French fiancée Elisabeth Belhomme, in the coastal city of Harhoura, near Rabat. (dafbeirut.org)
  • In contemporary Morocco and all of North Africa , it is generally used to refer to the fortified strong point in a city. (factretriever.com)
  • Morocco also claims Ceuta and Melilla , making up about 22.8km2 more claimed territory. (explained.today)
  • Some have highlighted the elements that make Morocco a country "like any other", while others have emphasized its uniqueness. (cairn-int.info)
  • From 1950s to 1980s, the painting in Morocco was partly developed by self-taught artists, who adopted naïve art to produce spontaneous compositions, illustrating a sort of stereotyped image of their country. (dafbeirut.org)
  • The Marinid and Saadi dynasties otherwise resisted foreign domination, and Morocco was the only North African nation to escape Ottoman dominion. (explained.today)
  • Foreign relations of Bangladesh Foreign relations of Morocco Bangladesh News. (wikipedia.org)
  • After retiring in 1988, Korn authored seven books, including "Assassination in Khartoum" about the murder of two Foreign Service Officers (FSO) by the Black September Organization terrorist group, and numerous articles and op-eds. (state.gov)
  • The Revolution 4.0 refers to the fourth industrial revolution, characterized by the integration of advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, theInternet of Things (IoT), and automation into the manufacturing sector. (ac.ma)
  • The last two decades of research investigating phonetic alignment have yielded the insight that certain tonal targets align in a highly systematic way with respect to single or multiple reference points in the segmental string (the latter referred to as 'segmental anchoring' by Arvaniti, Ladd and Mennen, 1998 ). (journal-labphon.org)
  • In Morocco, djinns are believed to frequent places associated with water: public baths, drains, sinks, and even pots and pans. (factretriever.com)