Following the royal plan, proposed by King Mohammed VI in his Green March speech, Algeria issued an unofficial position through one of its diplomats. Meanwhile, the Polisario criticized the content of the speech.
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King Mohammed VI said on Tuesday that Morocco stands ready for “a direct and frank dialogue” with neighboring Algeria in order to settle the transient and objective differences impeding the development of relations between the two countries and suggested the setting up of a joint political...
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After the attempted coup in July 1971, Hassan II became suspicious of the Americans to the point that CIA agents in Morocco were unaware of the Green March project. A State Department document states that Henry Kissinger, the former United States Secretary of State, was certain that the king was...
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As the dispute over the ...
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This week marks the 42nd anniversary of King Hassan II’s famous Green March into the Moroccan Sahara to reassert Morocco’s historical sovereignty over the region.
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A declassified document released by the CIA has shed light on the circumstances surrounding the Green March. Moroccans were able to enter the Sahara due to an agreement reached by Juan Carlos, Spain's Crown Prince at that time and King Hassan II, states the American agnecy.
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Diego Armando Maradona said that he participated in the Green March Gala for Free, and people who say otherwise “are lying.”
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Once The Hague rendered its judgement, King Hassan II organised his Green March and threatened to send 350,000 unarmed men, women and children to march peacefully into the Western Sahara.
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Morocco recently celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Green March, a remarkable event in 1975 that allowed the country to take back peacefully, the territory of Sahara formerly occupied by Spain.
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Morocco’s Minister of Communications, Mustapha Khalif, announced in Laâyoune the launching of a new platform to celebrate and share the Hassani culture.
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On 6 November, Moroccan people celebrated collectively in pomp and pride the 40th Anniversary of the return of the southern province to the Fatherland, Morocco.
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A photo of Argentine football legend Diego Maradona wearing typical Saharan dress “darra3iya” in Laâyoune on Friday afternoon has gone viral on social media networks.
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King Mohammed VI on Friday called for making a radical break with the manner in which the so-called Western Sahara issues have been dealt with so far.
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In a speech delivered from Laâyoune, Morocco on Friday, November 6 and marking the 40th anniversary of the Green March, King Mohammed VI lauded Morocco’s autonomy plan for the region and pledged to “make the Moroccan Sahara a hub for communication and exchange with sub-Saharan African countries...
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Yesterday Moroccan King Mohammed VI traveled to Laayoune, the sun-drenched capital of the country's Saharan south, on a historic occasion: Forty years earlier, in what became known as the "Green March," 330,000 of his fellow citizens arrived en masse in the then-Spanish-occupied Moroccan Sahara...
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Morocco is celebrating today the fortieth anniversary of the Green March amid an unprecedented mobilization of all components of Moroccan society. As is the case every year, Moroccans avail themselves of this opportunity to express their attachment to their country’s territorial integrity.
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On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Green March, 70 Moroccan and international athletes, amateurs and professionals, will participate in the “Dakhla Saharian Ultimate Trail” from November 5 to 9, 2015.
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Morocco celebrates today the 40th anniversary of the 1975 Green March, which took 350,000 citizens into the Spanish-occupied Sahara to call for freedom. The demonstration was called by King Hassan II and served a symbolic role in the fight for the country's independence.
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This Friday, November 6, the Kingdom of Morocco commemorates the 40th Anniversary of the Green March that took place on the same day in 1975.
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Friday, November 6 marks the 40th anniversary of the Green March, when some 350,000 Moroccan citizens and nearly 20,000 unarmed Moroccan troops walked in a peaceful demonstration into what was then known as Spanish Sahara to take back their southern provinces from Spanish control.
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This Friday is the 40th anniversary of one of the defining moments of the post-colonial history of Morocco and, indeed, all of Africa. At dawn on Nov.