Sources: Al Jazeera
Canada, the EU, Israel, Japan, Morocco, the Philippines, Singapore, Turkey, the UAE, the UK, and the U.S. ban flights from South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Malawi, and Eswatini due to the Omicron variant. 2021-11-26
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
Morocco reports 6,195 new cases, a new single-day record since the beginning of the pandemic, taking the nationwide total to 276,821 cases. 2020-11-12
Two Scandinavian women on a backpacking holiday were found dead in Morocco with cuts to their necks. The bodies were found in an isolated area in the Atlas Mountains, near the tourist village of Imlil, Marrakesh-Safi. 13 men are arrested with links to a Jihadist group. 2018-12-17
Four-hundred African migrants charge past Moroccan border forces by throwing rocks, trying to storm border fences separating Spain's North African enclave Melilla, but Spanish guards repel them. 2015-02-1
A bus accident in Al Hoceima, Morocco, kills at least 16 Royal Guardsmen. 2013-08-10
Morocco, Togo, Guatemala and Pakistan are elected to the United Nations Security Council, with a fifth seat still undecided. 2011-10-22
Thousands of people protest in Spain against a raid by Moroccan authorities in a camp in the disputed Western Sahara. 2010-11-14
The death toll from clashes at a camp in Western Sahara between Sahrawi protesters and Moroccan police rises to eleven. 2010-11-9