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Ancient DNA reveals lost human tribe that lived in Green Sahara

DNA from two mummies at Takarkori links them to 15,000-year-old Taforalt hunter-gatherers, challenging the idea of the Green Sahara as a migration corridor.

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Palm trees in green oasis in desert arid landscape between Agdz and Zagora towns in Atlas Mountains, Morocco, North Africa.
MOROCCAN SOLDIERS are seen on an earth wall that separates areas controlled by Morocco and the Polisario Front in Western Sahara, in 2016.

French minister in Western Sahara to back Moroccan sovereignty

Morocco has also won backing from Western Sahara's former colonial power Spain, as well as Israel and more than two dozen African and Arab nations.

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Is this the birthplace of the dinosaurs?

Study identifies Amazon and Sahara regions as birthplace of earliest dinosaurs

Remains of earliest dinosaurs may lie undiscovered due to inaccessibility and lack of research efforts.

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Mars landscape.

How the 'Black Beauty' of Sahara helped scientists determine hot water existed on the Red Planet

The presence of hot liquid water during early magmatic activity on Mars supports the idea that suitable conditions for the emergence of life existed on the Red Planet.

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Moroccan King invites Netanyahu to Rabat

President Herzog met with the Congressional Abraham Accords caucus immediately after his address to both houses of Congress.

JULY 19, 2023
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the government's cabinet formalizes the normalization agreement with Morocco.

Israel recognizes Morocco's sovereignty over Western Sahara

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu relayed the decision to King Mohammed VI in writing, the Royal Office explained. 

JULY 17, 2023
Moroccan and Israeli officials sign memorandums of understanding in Rabat on December 22, 2020.