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 ...

Amazigh people wear traditional clothes as they celebrate their new year outside the parliament, with calls on the government to recognize the day and put more effort into supporting their language in ...

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 ...

04 January 2010 Long-running efforts to bring Moroccans television programmes in Tachelhit, Tarifit and Tamazight are once again hitting obstacles. Morocco's Amazigh community will have to wait a ...

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 ...

Across North Africa, the Amazigh people have been coming together to usher in the year 2976. They have, unfortunately, not cracked time travel. Rather, they are almost a thousand years ahead of much ...

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.