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The Gnawa population is generally believed to originate from the Sahelian region of West Africa, which had long and extensive trading and political ties with Morocco. [3] [4] The Gnawa are an ethnic group who were brought to Morocco as slaves, and their ancestry is traced to parts of West Africa.
According to Paul Berthier, the need for slave labor on Moroccan sugar plantations was a major reason for the 16th century Saadian invasion of the Songhai Empire. [56] French-language map of major historic trans-Saharan trade routes (1889) A slave market in Cairo. Drawing by David Roberts, circa 1848.
This is a list of articles holding galleries of maps of present-day countries and dependencies. The list includes all countries listed in the List of countries , the French overseas departments, the Spanish and Portuguese overseas regions and inhabited overseas dependencies.
The first was an offshoot of Franklin D. Roosevelt's secretive World War II trip to French Morocco for the Casablanca Conference. Of the 46 African nations identified as sub-Saharan by the United Nations, [1] 16 have been visited by an American president.
Assistant Secretary for Women – Salma Ahmed Rashed – 1992 [112] Secretary in the General Secretariat of the General Peoples' Congress for Women's Affairs – Thuriya Ramadan Abu Tabrika (Sefrian) – 1995 [112] Secretary for Information, Culture and Mass Mobilization – Fawziya Bashir al-Shalababi – 1995 [112]
In 1983, Nigeria retaliated and deported up to 1 million Ghanaian and other African immigrants when Ghana was facing severe drought and economic problems. This further strained relations between the two countries. [2] In April 1988, a joint commission for cooperation was established between Ghana and Nigeria.
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Morocco was a center of the Trans-Saharan slave trade route of enslaved Black Africans from sub-Saharan Africa until the 20th century, as well as a center of the Barbary slave trade of Europeans captured by the Barbary pirates until the 19th century. The open slave trade was finally suppressed in Morocco in the 1920s.