From January 2016 to June 2020, up to 55 girls and boys said they had suffered physical and / or psychological violence, in child protection centers in the autonomous community of Madrid. A report by a local NGO called Raíces Foundation indicates that nearly 350 minors monitored «saw their rights violated when they were under the supervision of the regional administration», according to Spanish news agency EFE. They are mainly unaccompanied minors aged between 12 and 17
Contrary to the past four months in Morocco, the number of patients afflicted with the novel coronavirus admitted to intensive care is increasing. According to the ministries in charge, progress has been made towards the manufacturing of ventilators.
The Spanish Embassy in Morocco has announced the launching of new operations to repatriate Spanish nationals and residents stranded in Morocco. This new operation is scheduled for July 29 and 30 by sea. On its social media, the Spanish embassy indicated that the repatriation operations will link Tangier Med to Algeciras. ‼️AVISO IMPORTANTE‼️ La @EmbEspanaRabat y los Consulados Generales de ?? en ?? organizan nuevos ?️? con @Balearia, desde @TM_Officiel al @PuertoAlgeciras,
Atlas Lions goalkeeper Mounir El Kajoui has won the Zamora Trophy, a football award, established by Spanish newspaper MARCA in 1958. The Moroccan player and Malaga CF goalkeeper was awarded for his performance during the 2019-2020 season. During the 38 appearances he made, El Kajoui conceded 29 goals. Mounir is an indisputable goalkeeper at the Andalusian club. He is, moreover, not the only Moroccan goalkeeper to win the Zamora trophy. Badou Zaki won the trophy in 1989. The former
Olamilekan Adegbite, the Nigerian minister of Mines and Steel Development, announced that his government plans to ban the importation of barite from Morocco. The decision is expected to help the West African country save foreign exchange for other purposes. The minister revealed that his country imports $300 million worth of barite annually from Morocco, local online newspapers Nairametrics reports. Nigeria uses barite in the oil and gas industry as a weighting agent for drilling fluids
180 new coronavirus cases were recorded during the past 24 hours in Morocco, bringing the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country to 17,742. 257 new recoveries were recorded during the same period, bringing the total number of recoveries to 15,389, with a recovery rate to 86.7 percent. Four deaths were recorded, bringing the death toll to 280. The number of active cases in Morocco is 2,073. Most of the new cases were recorded in the Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima, with 72 new cases
Once again, Morocco relies on the Saharawi card to respond, at the UNHCR, to the Polisario and to Algeria. A card that has already proven its worth both in the two rounds of the UN «Geneva Round Table» and in the EU to bypass the 2016 judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union.
While their mission was supposed to last six months, Moroccan peacekeepers in Ituri stayed longer in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) due to Covid-19 restrictions, wrote MONUSCO, the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Thus, «special rotations are modestly being organized for their repatriation to Agadir, Morocco», reported the UN mission on its Facebook page. «It is a feeling of pride and joy that we have
While many businesses have seen their activities resume, the wedding industry is still affected by the ban on weddings and gatherings. Professionals from the sector said that they can no longer survive the long wait.
Younes Finani, 27, was jailed for almost seven years and was one of the Netherlands’ most wanted criminals. The Amsterdam-based Dutch-Moroccan, is about to publish a book about his teenage years, his life as a criminal and the lessons he learned from it, Crimesite wrote. His story starts in Jordaa, a district in Amsterdam. Younes left his parents’ house at the age of fifteen and found himself in a juvenile center. He started stealing and selling drugs. A journey that ended