Indian football club Mumbai City FC signed Moroccan midfielder Ahmed Jahouh, Friday, for the upcoming Indian Super League season, scheduled for November. According to Press Trust of India (PTI), the footballer joined the club for a two-year-contract. Jahouh is the first Moroccan player to join an Indian club. In 2017, FC Goa signed him. «I have spent three years in India and I believe that I have a lot left to achieve. When I spoke to the management at Mumbai City about the targets and
Members of Hassania Agadir underwent new PCR tests on Tuesday, which confirmed three new coronavirus cases within the club. «Two cases among the members of the technical and medical staff as well as a case among the players», the club said in a statement shared on its Facebook page. The new infections bring the total number of coronavirus cases within the Agadir-based club to 14. On October 18, the club announced that 11 people, including 7 players, had tested positive for
The Zamalek vs. Raja Casablanca game, the second leg of the CAF Champions League semi-finals, has been postponed to November 1st, the African football Confederation (CAF) announced. Initially scheduled for Saturday, October 24, the game was rescheduled after a number of coronavirus infections were recorded among the Raja Casablanca team, Le Matin reports. On Tuesday, local authorities in Casablanca prevented the Raja Casablanca team from heading to Egypt. Earlier that day, health
More than ten days ago, three young Moroccans left the city of Al Hoceima, in northern Morocco, to reach the Andalusian coast, El Faro de Ceuta reported. «Their parents are worried and have not heard from them ever since», one of their friends told the Spanish newspaper. «Othman, Hamza and Al Wahid (…) were not thinking of the consequences when they decided to put their lives in jeopardy», the newspaper wrote. On October 11, the three young people would have
3,577 new coronavirus cases were recorded in Morocco during the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country to 182,580. 2,796 new recoveries were recorded in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of recoveries in the Kingdom to 151,634. 52 deaths were recorded between yesterday and today, bringing the total number of deaths to 3,079. The country has 27,867 active cases, including 625 in critical conditions. 47 of them are on
Moroccan international footballer Achraf Hakimi has tested positive for the coronavirus, his club announced on Wednesday. The footballer, who plays as a fullback for Serie A club Inter Milan and the Morocco national team, underwent a coronavirus test that confirmed his infection, the Italian club wrote on its Twitter account. ? | COMUNICATOFC Internazionale Milano comunica che @AchrafHakimi è risultato positivo al Covid-19 in seguito all’ultimo controllo Uefa?
Members of the Polisario Front blocked, Wednesday, the Guerguerate border crossing, under the watchful eye of MINURSO. Images seen by Yabiladi show separatists carrying banners and flags, placing stones and tires to block the border crossing, linking Morocco to Mauritania. According to the Tindouf Autonomist Support Forum, known as Forastin, the Polisario sent its militia, accompanied by demonstrators, to the buffer zone, which constitutes a violation of the ceasefire agreement. This move
Before independence, the first women's organization in the history of Morocco emerged from the the Shura and Independence Party and defended women’s rights at a time when the Kingdom was struggling to chase the colonizer.
After several coronavirus infections were confirmed within Raja Casablanca, health authorities in Morocco have decided to prevent the football team from traveling to Egypt to play against Cairo-based Egyptian club Zamalek. The game was scheduled for Saturday and comes after the team won Raja, scoring one goal. The Ministry of Health urged the Raja team to observe a seven-day quarantine after 9 coronavirus cases were confirmed within the club. Eight of these infections were recorded among the
The Spanish Civil Guard was alerted, Wednesday, by several people in Ceuta after they had noticed a floating body in the sea off the shores of La Ribera beach. According to local online newspaper El Pueblo de Ceuta, the Civil Guard recovered the body of a man, who is said to be Moroccan. The authorities transferred the body to the city’s morgue to undergo an autopsy to determine the cause of death. The initial account suggests that the man drowned while trying to swim to Ceuta from