The Mother of All Lies review – pursuing the truth of Morocco’s brutal dictatorship years
Asmae El Moudir employs a delicate mix of handmade replicas and oral testimony to brilliantly evoke personal and collective trauma
June 2024
Moroccan authorities pushed asylum seekers into ‘death trap’, NGO claims
Hounds review – pitch-black comedy drama of hapless Moroccan dog-fighting hoodlums
Bloodlines
Beaten and tortured: the north African children paying a bloody price for Europe’s insatiable appetite for cocaine
Bloodlines
Revealed: drug cartels force migrant children to work as foot soldiers in Europe’s booming cocaine trade
May 2024
Yacht sinks after latest incident involving orcas in strait of Gibraltar
Extra virgin olive oil prices tipped to top £16 a litre next month
April 2024
‘The heat is burning’: Harry Hunter, 76, becomes oldest Briton to complete Marathon des Sables
Former Household Cavalry officer ran epic 250-km, seven-day race across the Sahara
March 2024
Pass notes
Huge, bitey, freakishly ugly: is this the world’s nastiest prehistoric reptile?
Khinjaria acuta was bigger than a great white shark, with blade-like teeth and awesome jaws. Just as well it died out 67m years ago
‘It’s effortless’: the Moroccan art star who shuns paint and works from his bed
Soufiane Ababri is so against the notion of painters at their easels that he always makes his erotic, irreverent and riotously colourful drawings lying down. Ahead of a major UK show, he reels off the many advantages
Scientists unearth mysteries of giant, moving Moroccan star dune
Parts of the structure are younger than expected while an east wind blows the whole thing across the desert, researchers find
February 2024
‘It has the smell of the oasis’: how palm husks became prize-winning Moroccan art
Female weavers in a Berber-speaking village helped Amina Agueznay to create a work that won the Norval Sovereign African art prize
Art of Africa: Marrakech showcases artists from across the continent
As the only international art fair dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora, 1-54 takes its name from the number of countries on the continent. The Marrakech edition is running this weekend until 11 February
Refugee files complaint to UN against Spain over 2014 border deaths
Country accused of violating torture convention in hope of finding justice decade after incident in which at least 15 people died
December 2023
‘Embrace the unexpected’: African art boosts its presence at Venice Biennale
Spanish police investigate deaths of four migrants forced off speedboat
October 2023
Angry protests flare up across Middle East after Gaza hospital blast
Israel faces blame from regional allies over Gaza hospital deaths
The Audio Long Read
The Melilla massacre: how a Spanish enclave in Africa became a deadly flashpoint – podcast
Observer business agenda
IMF clings to a hopeful agenda as crisis follows crisis
