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Morocco declares October 31, starting next year, to be a national holiday in celebration of Friday's UN resolution backing Morocco's plan of autonomy for Western Sahara in a 50-year dispute between the country and the Algeria-backed Polisario Front.
2025-11-4

Morocco becomes the 60th UN member state to ratify the High Seas Treaty, allowing it to enter into force in January 2026.
2025-09-19

Eighteen migrants are killed and hundreds of people injured, mostly Spanish and Moroccan security forces, as around 2,000 migrants attempt to illegally enter Melilla, Spain, from Morocco.
2022-06-24

Morocco's trade minister, Ryad Mezzour, and Israel's economy minister, Orna Barbivai, sign a trade deal in Rabat.
2022-02-21

Morocco closes its border with Spain following the escalation of diplomatic tensions generated by the massive influx of migrants into Ceuta on Tuesday.
2021-05-19

Twenty-four workers die in a flooded illegally-run textile workshop in a private house in Tangier, Morocco, which occurred as a result of intense rains that hit the region. Ten others were rescued and hospitalized.
2021-02-8

Morocco's government announces that they will impose a nationwide curfew from 9:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. local time and will require all cafes, shops, supermarkets, and restaurants to close at 8:00 p.m. beginning December 23. In Casablanca, Marrakech, Agadir, and Tangier, all restaurants will be closed for three weeks.
2020-12-21

Interpol reports that in six weeks it has detected more than a dozen people wanted for terrorism offences crossing the Mediterranean Sea using tourist routes. The joint operation involved Algeria, France, Italy, Morocco, Spain, and Tunisia.
2019-09-19

Mounir el-Motassadeq, sentenced to 15 years in prison as a member of the Hamburg cell of the September 11 attackers, was deported from Hamburg, Germany to Morocco.
2018-10-15

A Moroccan national is extradited from Bulgaria to Morocco to face trial for terrorism and ISIL membership.
2018-05-9