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Explainer: at Iouaridene in Morocco's High Atlas, Late Jurassic dinosaur tracks preserve movement across a once-muddy surface. Researchers can read sediment and motion from them, but not an exact species, speed or body mass. Not a new discovery. sadajournal.com/reading-moro…
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Explainer: Tifinagh is a script, not a language. In Morocco it writes Amazigh varieties such as Tarifit, Central Atlas Tamazight and Tachelhit. IRCAM's basic alphabet has 33 letters, fewer than the wider Unicode block. A sign does not show literacy levels. sadajournal.com/tifinagh-in-…
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Explainer: in Morocco's Maamora forest, a 2023 study of cork oak regeneration (2010-2018 measurements, 2021 follow-up) shows why trees planted, trees surviving and lasting regeneration are different questions. A dated experiment, not a new forest census. sadajournal.com/maamoras-cor…
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Explainer: a 2026 Lucentum study tested 26 selected amphorae from Lixus and found many inconsistent with a local origin. It shows regional trade, while where the city's own jars were made stays unproven. Not a new excavation. sadajournal.com/lixus-fish-s…
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Explainer: Morocco's northern bald ibis grew from 59 breeding pairs in 1997 to 147 pairs and 708 birds in 2018, per a published study. Researchers link its recovery to quiet nesting cliffs and reachable feeding land. Historical counts, not a 2026 census. sadajournal.com/the-landscap…
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Explainer: at Morocco's Oukaimeden Observatory, repeated calibrated measurements of planets, comets and asteroids are what turn sky images into evidence. A look at the method, drawing on published 2017-2018 studies. Not a new discovery. sadajournal.com/oukaimeden-o…
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Analysis: between Morocco's 2014 and 2024 censuses, HCP counted households up about 26.8% against about 8.8% for population, as average household size fell from 4.6 to 3.9. A historical planning signal, not a housing-shortage estimate or sales forecast. sadajournal.com/morocco-smal…
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Spanish police began a second day of clearing the temporary migrant camp at Ceuta's port on Nov 9. About 450 people were moved on Sunday, per El Faro de Ceuta and Europa Press. That is a count of transfers, not confirmed returns to Morocco. sadajournal.com/police-clear…
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Morocco's National Health Union, affiliated with the CDT, has called a strike for Nov 10 over salary protections, per Safircom, Assabah and Madar21. The claims are the union's. Participation and service impact are not yet verified. sadajournal.com/morocco-heal…
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Analysis by Adam Lotfi: who pays for Morocco's 2030 World Cup? The minister, the former head of government and the procurement records give three different answers. Our opinion piece sets them side by side and notes what each leaves out. Analysis, not news. sadajournal.com/morocco-2030…
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The cistern beneath El Jadida's Portuguese citadel is admired for its light, but its job was storing water for a fortress that could be besieged. Our feature separates what historians document from what remains disputed. Archive photos. sadajournal.com/el-jadida-po…
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A Barbary macaque approaching a visitor is not proof the encounter is harmless. Two 2016 studies in Ifrane National Park linked tourist food to stress signs and body-condition changes in the groups observed. Our explainer, with those limits. sadajournal.com/moroccos-bar…
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Jebel Irhoud's fossils, reported in 2017 from deposits dated to about 315,000 years ago, helped widen the story of Homo sapiens across Africa. Our explainer on why that does not make Morocco humanity's single birthplace. sadajournal.com/what-jebel-i…
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In ANRE's 2024 accounts, renewables were about 45% of Morocco's installed electricity capacity but about 27% of generation (11,666 of 43,713 GWh). Our explainer on why capacity and output are different measures. 2024 data. sadajournal.com/moroccos-ren…
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Analysis by Adam Lotfi: a citizens' group has called a voluntary six-hour car pause today over fuel prices. Our opinion piece sets dated pump prices and the government's stated no-cap, no-subsidy position against the arithmetic on each side. Analysis, not news. sadajournal.com/morocco-fuel…
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A family could own its storage cell while sharing the cost of protecting the building around it. Our explainer on Morocco's collective granaries (igoudar) reads them as a way of organising responsibility. Archive photo. sadajournal.com/moroccos-col…
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At Merja Zerga, the exposed mud is part of the story. Our wetland explainer looks at how the tide, sediment and bottom-dwelling animals feed the birds, and why a 1994-95 study is a baseline, not today's habitat. Archive photos. sadajournal.com/merja-zerga-…
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Safi's pottery survives through more than a familiar blue pattern: clay preparation, shaping, firing and, above all, who teaches those decisions. Our heritage explainer draws on UNESCO's Creative Cities profile and museum sources. Archive photos. sadajournal.com/safis-potter…
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Morocco's phosphate export earnings were flat in January-September 2026 (MAD 74.653bn, +0.2%, Office des Changes), but the mix moved: phosphoric acid +22.4%, fertilisers -1.6%, rock -22.6%. Nine-month figures, not a forecast. sadajournal.com/moroccos-pho…
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