In the early hours of Sunday, Spain’s Civil Guard arrested Abdennour El Hichou, the last remaining crew member of the drug boat that collided with a law enforcement vessel in the port of Barbate in February 2024, resulting in the deaths of two civil guards. He was apprehended in the same city where the fatal incident took place and is expected to appear before a judge today, Monday, according to Spanish media reports. El Hichou had been hiding in Morocco since the incident but returned
In the Netherlands, the new play Gharib by Mahfoud Mokaddem and Marcos Valster Da Costa Ferreira pays tribute to Moroccan soldiers who died in World War II. Inspired by real-life individuals, the production retraces the story of two soldiers who perished at sea eighty years ago. Their bodies eventually washed ashore in the south of the Netherlands and were laid to rest in the French military cemetery in Kapelle. In September 2023, the two creators visited the site and saw the soldiers' graves
Two Jamaican tourists died on Sunday from severe injuries sustained in a traffic accident at the intersection of Al-Muqawama and 2 Mars Streets in Agadir. They passed away after being transferred to the Hassan II Regional Hospital Center. According to consistent reports, the accident occurred when the driver of a foreign-registered light vehicle lost control of the car, which then crashed into a tree. The vehicle was carrying six passengers, including two Moroccan citizens. The driver is
A man was taken into custody on Saturday afternoon after being identified as the person behind a threatening voicemail left at the mosque in Sucy-en-Brie. «You want to be victims, filthy pigs... we’re going to slit your throats», the suspect said during a call made on Thursday evening. Driss Soussi, president of the Sucy Cultural Association of Muslims (ACMS), confirmed to Le Parisien on Sunday morning that he reported the incident shortly after discovering it. On Friday
In the 1630s Morocco and England argued over piracy activities. By the end of 1638, Saadi sultan Mohamed Cheikh Es-Sghir sent diplomat Mohamed ben Askar to Charles I’s court to demand action against English corsairs. The mission was a complete failure.
Two Spanish political parties are demanding a halt to arms exports to Morocco, wrote Iberian media this Sunday, May 4.The Basque and Catalan independence parties, EH Bildu and the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC)—both allies of the Polisario—have called for a suspension of export licenses for police and security equipment to Morocco. They demand that no such licenses be granted until all allegations of serious violations of international law, including excessive use of
A new twist has emerged in the military exercise planned by the North Africa Region Defense Committee (NARC), set to take place from May 21 to 27 in Algeria, with the participation of the Polisario Front. «The Arab Republic of Egypt has declined an invitation from Algeria to participate in a military activity alongside the terrorist Polisario Front», the Atlantic Defense Observatory revealed on X on Sunday, May 4. This information was confirmed to Yabiladi by a Moroccan security
Following the April 25 attack at the Grand-Combe mosque, French Prime Minister François Bayrou questioned the widespread reluctance to use «the right words» and the discomfort surrounding the term Islamophobia. «We cannot fight what we refuse to name», he said. In an interview published Saturday evening on the Journal du Dimanche (JDD) website, Bayrou endorsed a label that had previously been dismissed by his Interior Minister, Bruno Retailleau. He argued it was
The four opposition parties are considering submitting a motion of no confidence against the government led by Aziz Akhannouch since October 2021. «This political and democratic move will reinvigorate the national debate, which is currently stagnant, and hold the government accountable for its responsibilities», stated the PJD’s general secretariat in a communiqué released on Sunday. The party justified this initiative by pointing to «the government's failure to
Moroccan agricultural workers hired in Huelva have officially established their own union branch, supported by the collective Jornaleras de Huelva en Lucha (Huelva Day Laborers in Struggle) and the Andalusian Workers’ Union (SOA). Announced on Saturday, and timed with the May 1st celebrations, the initiative marks a major step forward in protecting the rights of these women workers and reshaping the labor dynamics between Morocco and Spain. As part of this move, the organization has also
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