In a series of tweets, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin thanked King Mohammed VI for «nurturing coexistence between Muslims, Jews and Christians» in Morocco. «Very moved by this week's dedication ceremony of Beyt Dakir [sic], the Museum of Moroccan Jewish Heritage in Essaouira, in the presence of His Majesty King Mohammed VI of Morocco», he wrote on Friday. Very moved by this week's dedication ceremony of Beyt Dakir, the Museum of Moroccan #Jewish Heritage in
In an attempt to catch his flight to Morocco, a British man called the police to make fake bomb threat. Rashidul Islam, 32, was sentenced, Friday, to 16 months in prison and banned from the Gatwick airport for the 999 call he made in May 2019. According to the Guardian, Islam was supposed to fly to Marrakech to visit his fiancée. After he realized that he was running late for his flight, scheduled for 5.40 pm, he decided to call the police and make them delay the flight, claiming that
The Polisario Front has lost another ally in Latin America by the start of 2020. On Monday, Bolivian interim government announced that it had cut «diplomatic ties» with «SADR».
Ibrahim Elkaddouri is a Dutch-Moroccan singer and Anasheed song teacher in the Netherlands. Recently, he released a song with his students on bullying, transmitting his love for Anasheed music to young students from different backgrounds.
On Monday, a Twitter account known as «Forsan UAE» published a photo of King Mohammed VI alongside the Crown Prince of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The Moroccan sovereign visited «his brother at his residence in Morocco», wrote the same Twitter account. #ملك_المغرب يزور أخيه #محمد_بن_زايد في مقر إقامته في المغرب pic.twitter.com/bDOp0kDXOi — فرسان الإمارات (@Forsan_UAE)
A senior delegation led by the Moroccan Minister of National Education, Vocational Training, Higher Education and Scientific Research Said Amzazi will be visiting London from 20 to 24 January 2020, the British Embassy in Rabat said in a communiqué sent Monday to Yabiladi. The delegation, which will also be headed by Minister Delegate for Higher Education Driss Ouaouicha, includes four university presidents and four senior officials from the same ministry. The delegation is accompanied
Barely a few minutes after his appeal hearing started, the Meknes Appeal Court has decided to reschedule it at the request of Ayoub Mahfoud’s lawyers. The next hearing will be held on March 30, Arabic-language newspaper Alyaoum24 reports. The 18-year-old is accused of «contempt of the King» and «to public officials». He is charged based on Articles 179, 263 and 265 from the Moroccan penal code. Sentenced in December to three years in prison and fined 5 000
In a video broadcast in a meeting organized yesterday in El Jadida, former Tunisian president Moncef Marzouki stressed that the United Arab Emirates and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will never forgive Morocco for allowing Islamists to head the government.
Dutch police arrested, Sunday, four people, foiling their attempt to spring a Mocro-Mafia prisoner known as Omar L., AFP reports. The suspects were trying to help the man escape the Zutphen prison, west of Amsterdam, after setting a van on fire, police said in a statement relayed by the French news agency. «It seems that an organized prison break had been attempted», Dutch police said, adding that «several persons tried to breach the prison, but the attempt was
In Turkey, the authorities arrested a man who has allegedly defrauded 600 Moroccan women after he was invited to a talk show last week. The man in question admitted on live television that he brought 600 women from Morocco to find them Turkish husbands. According to Turkish newspaper Haberler, M.S. said during the same talk show that he took money from these Moroccan women to find them Turkish husbands. «They paid me 50,000 dirhams to get them Turkish husbands», the 50-year-old