Amazigh language has declined as population goes to cities Moroccan government promised to boost the language Activists say the state must do more to help RABAT, Jan 30 (Reuters) - When Hassna Amzil's ...

When a Moroccan today refers to Agadir as being in “south Morocco,” a colonial ghost haunts the language. Unbeknownst to many, this casual phrase unintentionally excludes Western Sahara from Morocco’s ...

RABAT (Reuters) - When Hassna Amzil's parents speak their original language of Amazigh, she struggles to follow as part of a generation whose families moved from Morocco's mountains to its ...

RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco's economy is getting lost in translation. With so many students dropping out of university because they don't speak French, the government has proposed reintroducing it as ...

According to a study commissioned by the British Council, 40% of young Moroccans feel that it is more important to learn English than French, compared to only 10% who think otherwise. This figure will ...

As a child, Mohammed Ait Amghar, a shopkeeper from the Azilal region in Morocco, could only speak his native language, Amazigh. In 1982, when he was 8 years old, he felt unwell in class, his teacher ...

In Morocco's High Atlas mountains, shepherds Hammou Amraoui and his son hardly need words to speak. Across peaks, they whistle at each other in a centuries-old language, now jeopardised by rural ...

This article is written by Mohammed Udern. It is part of a series examining free expression and information access in civic spaces across six language communities in the MENA region. As a child, ...