
Morocco Leads Maghreb Nations in Global Soft Power Rankings
Morocco is far ahead of Algeria and Tunisia, Libya and Mauritania in the 2025 Soft Power Index published by Brand Finance.

Morocco is far ahead of Algeria and Tunisia, Libya and Mauritania in the 2025 Soft Power Index published by Brand Finance.

The Libyan authorities announced on Sunday the expulsion of 15 Moroccan migrants to Morocco.

The British government advises its nationals against any travel to the borders of Algeria with Tunisia, Libya, Niger, Mali and Mauritania. On the other hand, it qualifies the border with Morocco as a "safe" destination.

The Moroccan under-20 team faces the Libyan team this Saturday, November 23 in a match for the qualifications for the U20 Africa Cup of Nations. This Maghreb duel will be played in Egypt.

Morocco will not play the qualifiers for the 2024 African Nations Championship (CHAN). The Moroccan team is automatically qualified for the final phase following the withdrawal of Algeria, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) announced on Wednesday.

Libya and Paraguay have appealed to FIFA to demand the exclusion of the French team from the Futsal World Cup after their defeat against Iran (1-4) on Sunday. But the governing body of world football has rejected their request. As a result, the Blues remain in the competition and will face Thailand this Friday.

The Sahara Desert is experiencing heavy rainfall, the most recent of which is an extratropical cyclone. The latter crossed the northwestern Sahara on September 7 and 8 and flooded vast treeless areas in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya, while these regions rarely receive rain.

Worried about the fate of their missing relatives in Libya, Moroccan families and civil society actors are calling on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Residing Abroad to intervene with the Libyan authorities.

While Algeria, Tunisia and Libya are working on the creation of a new Maghreb bloc without Morocco, Rabat is aiming for increased integration with the rest of the world. For its part, Mauritania continues to play the card of neutrality.

The Algerian, Tunisian and Libyan presidents will hold their first "between Maghreb brother countries" meeting on Monday on Tunisian soil. Morocco and Mauritania have not been invited to this summit.

The Moroccan Futsal team largely dominated Libya (6-0) in the semi-finals of the 2024 Africa Cup of Nations (CAN), which is taking place in Rabat. This success ensures the Atlas Lions a place in the final of the competition and a qualification for the 2024 Futsal World Cup in Uzbekistan.

The Moroccan team faces Libya in the semi-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations (CAN 2024) of futsal. After their convincing victories over Angola (5-2), Ghana (8-3) and Zambia (13-0), the men of Hicham Dguig have every chance of winning, although it will not be easy against the very difficult Libyan team.