Morocco border crisis: Spanish police rescue baby boy from ocean

This is the moment a Spanish police officer saved a baby boy from the ocean off the coast of North Africa as thousands of desperate migrants rushed across the border from Morocco. Spain’s Guardia Civil said officer Juan Francisco plucked the ‘frozen’ baby boy from the ocean near the enclave of Ceuta on Tuesday afternoon … Read more

The moment 6,000 migrants storm Spanish enclave from Morocco after SWIMMING around border fence 

Thousands of migrants have crossed into a Spanish enclave from Morocco after swimming around a border fence, taking advantage of relaxed border controls in the North African country. By Tuesday morning, around 6,000 people had crossed into the city of Ceuta, the Spanish government said, including 1,500 thought to be teenagers, prompting a possible humanitarian … Read more

A 66 million-year-old duckbilled dinosaur unearthed in Morocco crossed oceans to get there

The remains of a duckbilled dinosaur that lived 66 million years ago has been found in Morocco and it must have crossed at least 250 miles of ocean to get there, scientists claim. Paleontologists from the University of Bath and others found the fossilised remains of the unusual dinosaur, dubbed Ajnabia odysseus, in rocks in … Read more

Edwardian family’s holiday pictures of Morocco, Algiers, Tunisia and Algeria go up for auction

A huge photograph album charting an Edwardian family’s holiday to the Middle East that could rival the Instagram holiday-makers of today has emerged 112 years later. The vast album contains 500 photographs and postcards that were taken by the snap-happy Bowen family. The husband, wife and their two grown-up daughters were prolific photographers and captured … Read more

Edwardian family’s holiday pictures of Morocco, Algiers, Tunisia and Algeria go up for auction

A huge photograph album charting an Edwardian family’s holiday to the Middle East that could rival the Instagram holiday-makers of today has emerged 112 years later. The vast album contains 500 photographs and postcards that were taken by the snap-happy Bowen family. The husband, wife and their two grown-up daughters were prolific photographers and captured … Read more

New mosasaur species is discovered in Morocco that lived more than 66 MILLION years ago

New mosasaur species discovered in Morocco lived more than 66 MILLION years ago and had a 3-foot long skull with a crocodile-like snout Gavialimimus almaghribensis swam in inland seas over 60 million years ago A three-foot skull and other bones was found in a phosphate mine in Morocco  Its unique gator-like jaw aided it in … Read more

SMALL CAP MOVERS: Sound Energy drops after Morocco slaps refuted $14m tax bill

SMALL CAP MOVERS: Sound Energy drops after Morocco slaps refuted $14m tax bill By Giulia Bottaro At Proactive Investors For Thisismoney.co.uk Published: 15:19 BST, 4 September 2020 | Updated: 15:19 BST, 4 September 2020 Sound Energy slipped 11 per cent to 1p this week after the Moroccan authorities slapped a $14million tax bill in relation … Read more

Travel: A true oasis in the desert – Inara Camp, Morocco

You may not be surprised to find out that as a travel writer my tastes edge more towards luxury boutiques than camping. Believe me, I have tried all manner of camping variations worth writing a press release about, including the dreaded ‘glamping’ subgenre, a term derived from the combination (and indeed oxymoron in my eyes) … Read more