Sources: IOL
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
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
At least seven people are killed and more than 80 others injured after a train derails in Bouknadel, Morocco. 2018-10-16
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
A Western Saharan human rights campaigner alleges abuse by Moroccan police after being interviewed by the BBC for their "Tropic of Cancer" programme. 2010-03-20