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UK considers building a tunnel linking Gibraltar and Tangier
The possibility is being considered by Boris Johnson's executive to strengthen commercial ties with Morocco
Diego Urteaga
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PHOTO/AP - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the UK-Africa Investment Summit in London on 20 January 2020
The possibility of building a connection between the Iberian Peninsula and the African continent is once again on the table. However, it is not Spain that has taken up this initiative, which has been explored for almost half a century, but the United Kingdom. London, or rather Boris Johnson, is determined to take advantage of the trade opportunities that may arise from its new status as a former partner of the European Union. And connecting Gibraltar to Morocco through Tangier is one of them.
The British premier's cabinet would be considering, in collaboration with the Moroccan government, taking up a project that has already been started previously by Spain and Morocco, of a tunnel to connect the British Overseas Territory Gibraltar with the Moroccan city of Tangiers. At the time, Spain began the construction of the tunnel in Cadiz, but after two years, work on both sides of the Strait of Gibraltar was abandoned due to maintenance problems and flooding.
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AFP/JORGE GUERRERO - A man checks his luggage while waiting to board the ferries to Tangier at the port of Algeciras on 27 July 2019
In principle, the most plausible option is an underwater tunnel of about 30 kilometres long, similar to the Eurotunnel that connects the island of Great Britain with France, built at the end of the last century and with a length of 50 kilometres. In 2013, it is projected to exceed a turnover of more than one billion euros for the first time in its history, and it seems that the United Kingdom wants to repeat this engineering success and exploit its commercial potential.
Morocco would see this project in a good light, not only because of the facilities that this would bring for example to the always multitudinous operation of the Strait, when thousands of Moroccan citizens travel from different points of Europe to Morocco and collapse the port areas of southern Spain. In Rabat it is also seen as an option for boosting the commercial role of the north of the country in the respective Mediterranean areas, which is centred, among other things, on the port of Tangiers-Med, whose expansion was completed just a year and a half ago.
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PHOTO/REUTERS - Overview of the Tangier-Med container port at Ksar Sghir, near the coastal city of Tangier, Morocco
Relations between the two capitals have been strengthened in recent years, once the Brexit was confirmed as a new reality for the United Kingdom, as a means of diversifying and strengthening trade ties in an attempt to mitigate the economic impact of its withdrawal from the European Union.
Before coming to power, Boris Johnson, in his capacity as British foreign minister, was responsible for initiating this new strategic relationship with the Alaouite kingdom. He did so through a series of meetings with his Moroccan counterpart, Nasser Bourita, in the British capital, where issues related to the economy, culture and security were discussed.
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PHOTO/REUTERS - Prince Henry of the United Kingdom meets Saad Eddine El Othmani, Prime Minister of Morocco, during the UK-Africa Investment Summit in London, UK, on 20 January 2020
Moroccan agricultural products can replace Spanish, Portuguese and Italian products now that the United Kingdom is outside the EU, and this is just one of the areas where the two countries can come closer together. Of course, the tourism sector is another of them, and that is why Morocco is also investing heavily in its development in the north of the country, where the connection between Tangiers and Gibraltar could be a major incentive.
At last year's United Kingdom-Africa summit, it was already possible to see how well the Moroccan and British authorities were attuned to each other. During the summit, Morocco offered itself to the United Kingdom as a gateway to the African continent. This growing relationship was consolidated this past summer with the signing of several trade agreements between the two countries to reduce or directly eliminate tariffs on a number of fruit and vegetable products.
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Argelia y Mauritania anuncian la creación de una nueva ruta comercial entre Tinduf y Zuérat y abren el paso África Occidental.
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The tracks of Morocco.Some DMPs sometimes wonder how I do my course surveys and especially how sometimes I can make new discoveries of interesting and spectacular sites and places that will be featured in my guide updates or reissues.The example of our latest finds for Volume VI of Pistes du Morocco, which we made available on Facebook can only happen for the (large) desert areas where we can still practice off-pistes on major distances.Practicing the ′′ off-piste ′′ is a big word because since my first course surveys in the ′′ Great ′′ South, almost 20 years ago, the desert is flooded with old tracks most military, already abandoned long ago, mainly those heading to the old ′′ defense walls ′′ and today for the current ′′ wall ′′ stabilized on borders against the ′′ POLISARIO ′′ zone. Added to this the new tracks and above all the countless tracks (old or more recent) nomads moving their camps following the seasons and the search for green areas likely to feed their flocks increasingly abundant.The surveys we carried out this winter (Volume VI zone) are mainly due to the lack of access to Mauritania, where I thought I could work on the latest surveys for the new edition of the guide. So, since we have to redo Volume VI because some of our routes near borders are no longer accepted by the military, we have decided to find other routes for the interior of the Atlantic Sahara.Still running with accompanying SUVs. Hoceine Ahalfi who has participated in all my guides for over twenty years is using me as a browser while driving...Gandini GPS gathered on maps all the guides routes. It was enough to make a survey avoiding as much as possible one of the north-south routes of Volume VI, except obviously for the crossing of border routes (Guelta Zemmour et al.)This is so, to our great surprise, taking our time to circulate we came across this exceptional site that we just showed you to the west of the erg Dra Afrafir, where we had already passed several times.
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Moments of high emotion thanks to the successful launch of our experimental farm in Arfoud as part of a humanist Moroccan-French-Chinese partnership.This Agro-Eco-Tourism project agrees with several dimensions and the pilot farm aims to propose alternatives and solutions for brackish water, organic soil inputs and suitable crops to combat desertification, malnutrition and poverty by swarming The results achieved from the Moroccan Sahara to Djibouti.Thank you to all the actors and good souls, including in the first place theDr. Nasser Bouchiba د. nạṣr bwsẖybẗ, our partners, our team including Med Tifina who participated, despite the situation, in the successful implementation road to this project with huge social-economic hopes and encouraged by the planet itself!
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Interesting history that puts the Islam to the North of Europe not just Andalucía in Spain!
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Breaking News!
Morocco cancels Mandatory PCR Tests for Travellers emmidiate as of today!
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The medieval fort of Jebel Mudawwar: a fortified mountain in the Sahara. State site or community site?Gara Medouar, also known as Jebel Mudawwar ("Round Mountain"), Gara Mdouar, or Mdoura, is a geological formation in the form of horseshoe ("erosion circus") near Sijilmasa, Morocco. In the 11th century, it was transformed into a fortress with a military garrison that probably protected the neighboring commercial town of Sijilmasa, where the gold coins were smuggled, and the shopping roads in the south. Representatives of the Almoravid dynasty probably built the fortifications, which included a wall as high as 12 meters that closed the only opening on the massif, two walls and defensive structures along the mountains. dams in the canyons to collect water and a variety of structures on The massive.The massif was studied by the Moroccan sociologist Paul Pascon. Starting from the 1999 movie The Mummy, it was also used as a shooting location and became a tourist attraction, especially for off-road enthusiasts.Jebel Mudawwar may have been the Tasagdalt mentioned by one of the Emirs of the Banu Midrar dynasty, Muhammed Ibn al-Fath, fleeing from Sijilmasa towards "Tasagdalt, a stone fortress about twelve miles from Sijilmsa".It was studied by the Moroccan sociologist Paul Pascon, who wrote a brief note on the subject in the Moroccan magazine Hespéris in 1956 and published a monograph, La Gara Medouar, the same year. Pascon visited the site for the first time in 1952 when he spent a few hours there, long enough to allow him to write a description in which he listed a defensive wall, four towers, four dams and di towards other buildings; he considered the place as a fortress. According to local oral tradition, the site had been used centuries ago by Portuguese slave masters, who used it as a warehouse. In 2011, an in-depth study was conducted by Chloé Capel, member of MAPS (Morocco-American Project in Sijilmasa).
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En busca de NÓMADAS IMAZIGHEN en Marruecos !
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Saffron or what is known as red gold, is sold in grams like gold, and Morocco is famous for it, as it is a plant that only blooms two weeks a year, it considered the most expensive spice in the world, which one gram equal 5 euros. Its multiple uses in cooking, treating cold and pain, mixed with tea or milk, and even for making cosmetics.
What do you know about healthy benefits of Saffron?
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The Amazigh celebrates the Amazigh Year 2973 which is the second oldest year in the world after the Hebrew Year, a year which dates back to a great event, the Amazigh victory over the Pharaoh of Egypt led by the Amazigh King #cicung # زي # يغ # الملك and his victory over the Egyptian King Pharaoh #Ramses_r 3rd year 950 BC and this battle took place on The banks of the Nile River, after a failed attempt by conquering the eastern Amazigh lands, the Amazigh East Tamazigh surrendered to King Shishon, and with this great victory, the Pharaoh's throne was overthrown and the rule of the twenty-second family, and the rule of Amazigh over Egypt continued to the boundaries of the twenty-sixth family. Let them bring back the rule to the pharaohs. As the Amazigh year, or so-called January, coincides with the beginning of the agricultural season for the Amazigh, and the celebration became two victory celebrations and the celebration of the beginning of a good agricultural season, so all the peoples of North Africa celebrated this great event, whether the Amazigh speaking or the ones who are in the villages. And in cities and different names, some of them call him "Hakouza" and some of them Who also calls it #January, and some of them call it #TheFarmer Sunnah, and all of them are nouns that apply to the Amazigh Sunnah. The Amazigh year is different from other years, such as Hijri, Hebrew and Christianity, because it is not religious or dogmatic, it is a year related to a historical event, the Amazigh celebrates this year with a variety of foods and rituals, which are diverse and rich according to the regions and the type of agriculture common in their regions, but a Nak ma gather them where most of them celebrate couscous with seven vegetables, meat and silk and put in it A date seed and whoever finds it while drinking it is considered lucky and his year will be full of joys, pleasure and abundant sustenance .... Amazigh New Year's dishes are also characterized by dates, dried figs, and dry fruits, and these henna dishes are accompanied by young children and brides who are coming to marriage and with traditional dressing, and there is joy, dancing and singing, and among men, where families meet, this day is distinguished by them. The Lord of tea and talking about agriculture, matters of tribe and livestock, and as for the youth, they meet in Seminars or in gatherings, they discuss the history of the Amazigh nation with its events in the past and present, and the challenges that still hinder moving forward, and the problems that still oppose the formulation of the language and return the true history to schools instead of the fake one....Thus, we address a word to all those who want to infiltrate religion to prohibit this noble habit that preserves the relationship of the merciful. The Amazigh is not another religion to prohibit everything related to it. We are here and we will remain here defending our origin with our head held high. We are the origin and we will continue to do so.Happy new year to all the Amazigh of the world 2973
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Pozos del siglo Xl que llevaban el agua de las montañas a los palmerales de Erfour. La khettara o qanat es un sistema tradicional y ancestral para la captación y conducción de las aguas subterráneas. El qanat surgió hacia el 1000 a. C.
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We will turn back the wheel of time to 1901 and sit in a classroom in France or Algeria. I wonder what the grandfather of Macron, Taboun, and Shenqriha taught about Morocco? Did they study the Kingdom of Fes and Marrakech in geography? Is there a lesson on western desert? How much is the area of Morocco and what are its borders? Let's see their decisions and let her be their witness..Today's book is not the same as a historian wrote it. In fact, an official curriculum approved in all the schools of France and its colonies, which is a geography book for primary and secondary education, published in 1901, and remained approved for twenty years, and the teachers used to teach it to students in stages. Each state and region for educational level.. What interests us in the Morocco page and Algeria page.Page 15In a lesson about Africa, the judge says that the most important countries in Africa are:EGYPTEthiopia AbyssinieMoroccoAnd he doesn't mention any fourth important country in Africa.. So Morocco was an important country in Africa.. At her time called the so-called Yuti of the United States was still at the rank of colonel in the Oran region.Page 27 today's lesson on the desert:The largest desert of Africa in the world extends from the Amazigh tribes to Sudan, inhabited by the tribes of Tawareq, Maurine and Tibus, and most of their origins are Amazigh.The most important areas in which Adrar, Twat, and Ain Saleh are under Morocco rule..Look at the map of where the region of Twat and Ain Saleh of Morocco are located according to their testimony.Page 32, a lesson about Algeria:Algeria is our largest colony.. It has an area of about 500,000 square kilometers and has a population of 4 million people (Algerians and Europeans)..And here I ask two questions:How was the area of Algeria 500,000 km and became 2,381,000 square kilometers in 1962?How can four million people, a quarter of them foreigners, leave 5 million martyrs?Page 32... Geography lesson today, my dear children, about a country called Morocco:Morocco is a country located in the northwest of Africa, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, Algeria and the desert, with a population of 8 million people, the Amazigh, Arabs and Jews.And he did not mention neither the Kingdom of Fes nor the Kingdom of Marrakech, nor did they grieve...The rest of the lesson :The regime in it is an empire with totalitarian rule.. Totalitarian Empire .. The ruler in it holds the title of honorable is the head of the state and at the same time its religious leader (meaning prince of believers).. And there are some tribes that do not submit to his authority.. The most important cities of the Empire at that time were Fes, Meknes, Souira and Tangier..Fes, the capital of the Empire, with a population of 150,000 people, is an important commercial center, a holy city, Mecca and the city!!!Agriculture: Morocco is the largest fertile land in the Arab world. It produces cereals, olives, fruits, dates, tobacco, and has livestock for goats, cows and sheep and they have world-renowned horses.Industry and trade :Industry in Morocco is not very developed and is oriented for domestic consumption..The most important products: wool, zerabi, pottery, jewelry, leather products, and horseshoes. And the weapons...The most important business partners.. They are Britain.. Done with France and Spain....This is a summary of what the ancestors of Taboun, Shanqriha, and Macron used to preserve, and with them every French and every Algerian, and preserved it with their sons to divert himself from Morocco, and they tested it.I hope you publish this blog for all those who will tell you in the future to make Morocco. Morocco has been a kingdom since the era of Asterix et Obelix, when the ancestors of Lyoti himself lived in the caves.
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