Morocco becomes first African nation to produce its own cancer diagnosis tests
The new tests are expected to eventually cut costs and waiting times significantly not only in Morocco, but across the entire continent.
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Morocco will be first African country to provide military aid to Ukraine
At the request of the United States, the Moroccan authorities have decided to transfer spare parts for T-72 tanks to Ukraine, becoming the first African country to provide military assistance to Kyiv.
Morocco extends paid paternity leave
The new measure aims to offer Morocco’s working-class a paid parental leave of 15 days, up from the current three-day leave.
Conservationists bring the Saharan gazelle back from the brink of extinction
After a captive-breeding program in Spain, Dama gazelles have been reintroduced in protected reserves in Tunisia, Morocco, and Senegal and number roughly 4,000.
Morocco aims for 50% renewable energy by 2030
By 2030, Morocco wants to be at 50% renewable energy (for electricity needs), and it aims to reach 100% renewables by 2050.
Morocco sends 8 million masks to 15 African countries
The aid also includes 900,000 visors, 600,000 hygiene caps, 60,000 medical coats, 30,000 litres of hydroalcoholic gel, 15,000 packs of Azithromycin, and more.
Morocco unveils a massive solar power plant in the Sahara
Morocco has officially turned on a massive solar power plant in the Sahara Desert, kicking off the first phase of a planned project to provide renewable energy to more than a million Moroccans.
Fatima al-Fihri founds the world’s oldest continuously operating university in Morocco
In 859 C.E., a young woman named Fatima al-Fihri used her entire inheritance to build a mosque and school for her immigrant community in Fez, Morocco. That institution, Al-Karaouine, has been teaching students ever since. UNESCO and Guinness recognize it as the world’s oldest continuously operating university — founded roughly two centuries before Oxford.
Masinissa unifies Numidia as the first Berber kingdom in North Africa
The Kingdom of Numidia was born in 202 B.C.E., when the Berber king Masinissa united two long-rival confederacies into North Africa’s first unified state. After years as a mountain fugitive, he allied with Scipio Africanus, defeated his rival Syphax, and built a kingdom that would endure over a century as a regional power in its own right.
Amazigh people build one of Africa’s oldest continuous cultures in the Maghreb
The Amazigh — “free people” — were shaping life across North Africa long before Rome or the Arab conquests arrived. Their ancestors painted elephants and hippos on Saharan rock walls when the desert was still green, around 5000 B.C.E. Today, an estimated 30 to 40 million people carry that lineage forward, one of the world’s longest continuous cultural threads.