The United Kingdom has appointed a new ambassador to Morocco in succession to Thomas Reilly. The announcement was published, Monday, on the United Kingdom's public sector information website. «Simon Martin CMG has been appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Kingdom of Morocco in succession to Mr Thomas Reilly», read the statement. The new ambassador, who served from 2015 to 2019 as the UK's ambassador to Manama, Bahrain, is expected to take office in September 2020. The
Moroccan UFC feather fighter Youssef Zalal, also known as the «Moroccan Devil», made, Saturday in Texas, his first Octagon win at UFC 247, MMA Fighting wrote on Monday. The Casablanca-born fighter defeated Austin Lingo with a unanimous decision to open the preliminary card at UFC 247 in Houston. After his fight, Youssef Zalal told media that «it felt amazing to make [his] UFC debut in Houston, opening up a pay-per-view event». «I started as a kick-boxing kid in
The Royal Moroccan Athletics Federation (FRMA) announced this week that the Regional Anti-Doping Organization has suspended two of its athletes for violating anti-doping rules. On its official website, the body explains that Badr El Jalaoui has been suspended for four years starting from July 26, 2019, while Abdelkrim Boubker has been suspended for five years by the same organization since May 6, 2019. The two Moroccan athletes are thus prohibited from participating in any sporting activity.
In a series of tweets, the United Kingdom’s ambassador to Morocco Thomas Reilly took to Twitter to denounce the delay of his two RAM flights. On social media, he complained about the company’s «lack of information”.
Has France managed to keep Spain away from building submarines for Morocco ? Spanish shipbuilding firm Navantia denied in a recent press release reports claiming that it was building submarines for the Kingdom.
The Polisario Front announced Sunday that «at the request of the United Nations Secretary-General», Brahim Ghali met Antonio Guterres, in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, which is hosting the 33rd edition of the African Union Summit. The official agency of the separatist movement has argued that Ghali told Guterres that the «Sahrawi people have lost their confidence in the UN», stressing that «the Sahrawi party will not take part in any process that does not
South African Football Association (Safa) president Danny Jordaan has welcomed the Moroccan government for investing in football infrastructure, referring to Mohammed VI complex in Rabat. According to IOL, Jordaan, who is also vice president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), attended an infrastructure symposium at the facility alongside 200 administrators from Africa, CAF executive members and Fifa president Gianni Infantino. During this symposium, Jordaan said that African
A Moroccan national who pretends to be a holy healer had been reported to the police for allegedly defrauding a 60-year-old woman in Italy, Italian news agency ANSA wrote on Saturday. The 57-year-old man told the woman in question that he is capable of healing physical and psychological illnesses, receiving from her 26,000 euros. The woman who believed that she suffers from depression said that the Moroccan man, who presented himself in the beginning as a vendor, approached her and said that
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) reacted, Sunday, to a confidential forensic review conducted by PwC. The latter unearthed the alleged financial wrongdoings of «the continent’s governing body that raises concerns about the legitimacy of millions of dollars of payments to executives and national associations», AP revealed. «The structural changes undertaken by CAF will not be derailed by misleading reports in some media. The CAF Executive Committee reserves
Participating for the first time as Algeria’s President in an African Union Summit, Abdelmajid Tebboune addressed the Western Sahara question. He revealed, in a speech, that he had «urged» the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in a letter to appoint a new personal envoy to the Sahara as soon as possible, Algerian newspaper TSA reports. Moreover, the Algerian President asked Guterres to «relaunch the political process to settle the Western Sahara
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