2001-03-16 04:00:00 PDT Rabat, Morocco-- A war of words over the Berber and Arabic languages is heating up in Morocco, threatening to divide the kingdom in much the same way the battle between French ...

The Berber language is being taught in Moroccan schools for the first time from Monday. The classes will be taught in just a few hundred primary schools to begin with, but the government says the aim ...

A BBC News piece on the teaching of “Berber” languages in Morocco has got the blogoma talking. The article, which outlines the educational options for learning and studying the language, and adds ...

PRESIDENT Abdelaziz Bouteflika has announced that the Berber language would become an official language in Algeria alongside Arabic after leaders of the large Berber minority called for a boycott of ...

AZDINE, Morocco - One of Said Lakenizaa's two remaining cows fell sick and died last year as he led it down the steep dirt track from his village in Morocco's Atlas mountains. It was the second time ...

IN MOROCCO their language has been made official. In Algeria they lead protests against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's regime. In Tunisia they are rediscovering a long-suppressed identity. In Libya ...

The Berbers are the indigenous inhabitants of Libya and the Sahara. There are numerous tribes found in East Libya, West Libya and across the entire Sahara desert where they have been since the ...

The Amazigh – or Berber – New Year has become an official holiday in Morocco, the country’s king has said, in the latest acknowledgement of the Indigenous group that has campaigned for years to have ...