After funding shortfalls, false starts and years of broken promises, Morocco’s minority Amazigh community launched its first web this month. Amazigh TV, which debuted on Jan. 6, is the first to ...

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 ...

11 January 2010 The new television channel for Morocco's Amazigh audience "will strengthen our national identity", one viewer says. An Amazigh-language TV channel first proposed three years ago ...

Hundreds of people gathered in Morocco‘s capital Rabat to mark the start of the Amazigh new year with a sit-in, calling on the state to make the celebration a national holiday. “This day is an ...

The Amazigh people are the indigenous people of North Africa, with tribal populations stretching from Siwa in Egypt to Semara in Morocco. In a region where identity and history are often exploited as ...

Yennayer is not recognized as an official holiday by Morocco despite the importance of Amazigh people and culture in the region Said Affassi Said Affassi is a reporter for the i24NEWS Arabic site.