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1 week ago | 
apnews.com | Sam Metz |Metz covers Morocco
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2 months ago | 
apnews.com | Metz covers Morocco |Sam Metz
Desierto avanza y amenaza con tragarse las casas y la historia de Mauritania 1 of 2 | Una vivienda se encuentra abandonada en medio de la arena cerca de Chingueti, Mauritania, el 13 de enero de 2025. (AP Foto/Khaled Moulay) 2 of 2 | Animales merodean viviendas rodeadas por la arena en Chingueti, Mauritania, el 13 de enero de 2025.
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2 months ago | 
apnews.com | Sam Metz |Monika Pronczuk |Metz covers Morocco |West Africa
Rwanda’s evolving stature ensures muted global pressure as M23 advances in eastern Congo 1 of 8 | Government soldiers and police officers who surrendered to M23 rebels, center, run to board trucks to an undisclosed location in Goma, Democratic republic of the Congo, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
apnews.com | Sam Metz |Ruth Alonga |Metz covers Morocco
TAMESNA, Marruecos (AP) — Luego que los países africanos batallaron para obtener kits de prueba durante la pandemia de COVID-19, las autoridades prometieron hacer que el continente dependiera menos de los suministros médicos importados. Ahora, en una primicia para África, una empresa marroquí está completando pedidos de pruebas de viruela símica en medio del brote.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
apnews.com | Sam Metz |Ruth Alonga |Metz covers Morocco
TAMESNA, Morocco (AP) — After African countries struggled to get testing kits during the COVID-19 pandemic, officials vowed to make the continent less dependent on imported medical supplies. Now, in a first for Africa, a Moroccan company is filling orders for mpox tests as an outbreak continues. Moroccan startup Moldiag began developing mpox tests after the World Health Organization declared the virus a global emergency in August.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
apnews.com | Sam Metz |Metz covers Morocco
MARRAKECH, Marruecos (AP) — Tras la proyección de la película “Cabo Negro” en el Festival Internacional de Cine de Marrakech esta semana, los organizadores, quienes anticipaban una reacción negativa, retiraron a su equipo de producción y cancelaron la sesión de preguntas y respuestas con el guionista y director Abdellah Taia, programada para después de la proyección.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
apnews.com | Sam Metz |Metz covers Morocco
MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) — After the movie “Cabo Negro” screened at the Marrakech International Film Festival this week, organizers anticipating backlash whisked its crew away and canceled director Abdellah Taia’s scheduled post-film Q&A. The film — selected as one of the festival’s 70 features and approved by authorities to be shot in Morocco — is a queer tale of two young men spending a summer on a beach in the north of the country. “I am Moroccan. I am gay.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
apnews.com | Sam Metz |Metz covers Morocco
MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) — Sean Penn on Tuesday blasted the organizers of the Oscars for being cowards who, in effect, limit the kinds of films that can be funded and made. The 64-year-old actor said at the Marrakech Film Festival that he gets excited about the Academy Awards only on the rare occasion that films he values are nominated.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
apnews.com | Sam Metz |Metz covers Morocco
MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) — One of the Middle East and North Africa’s largest film festivals opened Friday in Morocco, drawing actors and directors from throughout the world to present 70 features from 32 countries. The Marrakech International Film Festival, now in its 21st year, will showcase Oscar contenders and screen films for members of the public. But unlike larger festivals in Venice, Cannes or Toronto, it places unique emphasis on emerging directors and films from the Middle East and Africa.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
apnews.com | Massinissa Benlakehal |Tom Nouvian |Sam Metz |Metz covers Morocco
PARÍS (AP) — Un estudiante de doctorado francés detenido en Túnez regresó a París el viernes luego de semanas de conversaciones diplomáticas de alto nivel. Victor Dupont, un joven de 27 años que cursa un doctorado en el Instituto de Investigación y Estudio sobre el Mundo Árabe e Islámico de la Universidad de Aix-Marsella, llegó al aeropuerto Charles de Gaulle el viernes por la tarde, 27 días después de ser arrestado en Túnez.
