King Mohammed VI phoned, Monday, the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, said the royal palace in a statement. The phone call focused on the latest developments in the Guerguerate buffer zone. «During this conversation, His Majesty the King stressed that after the failure of all the laudable attempts by the Secretary General, the Kingdom of Morocco has shouldered its responsibilities within the framework of its most legitimate right, all the more so because this is not the
3,012 new coronavirus cases were recorded in Morocco during the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country to 296,189. 4,761new recoveries were recorded during the same period, bringing the total number of recoveries to 243,359. 71 deaths were recorded between yesterday and today, bringing the total number of deaths to 4,850. 19 of these deaths were recorded in the Casablanca-Settat region, 13 in Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, 8 in the Oriental, 8
The number of US students coming to Morocco for study increased by 24 percent during the 2018/19 academic year, according to an annual report conducted by the Institute of International Education with the support of the US Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The report, entitled «Open Doors», reveals that the number of American students who came to Morocco to study during said academic year moved from 1,411 to 1,749. The findings make
The only paved road between Morocco and Mauritania for the transportation of heavy goods vehicles is located in a no man's land nicknamed «Kandahar». The area has become the center of frequent conflicts between the Kingdom and the Polisario.
A court in Malaga, Spain, has started the trial of a Moroccan woman accused of leaving her 17-month-old baby for a month. According to Europa Press, the Moroccan woman arrived in Spain in March 2017. She was pregnant when she traveled to Spain and did so to hide her pregnancy from her father. The accused then gave birth on May 4, 2017 and lived in the house of her sister and her brother-in-law. In mid-2018, she moved to the city, rented a place and started working as a waitress at a
The Guerguerate crisis has given an opportunity to Pablo Iglesias, Second Deputy Prime Minister of Spain since January 2020, to show support for the Polisario Front. On his Twitter account, he wrote that the Security Council in its resolution, adopted on January 13, 1995, «reaffirms its commitment to organize, without further delay, a free referendum, fair and impartial for the self-determination of the people of Western Sahara…». Since he joined the government coalition in
The President of the National People’s Assembly, the lower house of the Algerian parliament, said on Sunday that Morocco’s recent military operation in Guerguerate «is a flagrant violation of the ceasefire agreement between the Kingdom and the Polisario». Slimane Chenine called on the United Nations to «assume their legal and moral responsibilities». «It has become necessary and urgent for the United Nations to assume their legal and moral
The European Union has contacted the two neighboring countries about the military tensions triggered by the blockade of Guerguerate.
As many other countries, Turkey has reacted to the military operation led by the Moroccan army on Friday, November 13, in Guerguerate. The spokesperson for the Turkish Foreign Ministry said, Sunday, that his country «is following the measures taken by Morocco to ensure the flow of goods and people» in Guerguerate, stressing the «importance of opening the border crossing», Anadolu reports. Ankara voiced on this occasion «its support for a just and long-lasting
Several African countries have sided with Morocco, condemning the threats of the Polisario on the Guerguerate border crossing.
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