In an audio recording shared on social media, Nasser Zefzafi addresses the desecration of the national flag in Paris, the Hirak movement and alleged reports on torture and rape. Shortly after it emerged, prison authorities in Morocco announced the launching of an investigation.
A week after his twelve-year sentence was lengthened to 15 years, Moroccan journalist Taoufik Bouachrine has decided to file a cassation appeal, his lawyer said. Quoted by Arabic-language newspaper Lakome2, the journalist’s lawyer El Hassan El Allaoui said in a statement published, Thursday, on his Facebook page that his client is lodging an appeal at the court of cassation. Before having his sentence extended, Bouachrine was sentenced to 12 years in jail in November 2018 by
The Trump administration is discussing ways to expand its travel ban list, a controversial measure that has been seen as discriminating against Muslims. Speaking to senior administration officials, American news-based channel CNN reported that discussions are underway to determine the countries that could be added to the Muslim ban, an executive order by United States president Donald Trump implemented in 2017. The same source indicates that administration officials are mainly considering
Hirak detainee Rabii Al Ablak, currently serving a five-year sentence for «spreading fake news» and «posing as a journalist», has suspended his hunger strike, Morocco’s National Human Rights Council (CNDH) said on Thursday. A source within the national institution for the protection and promotion of human rights said that the news was announced to the mother of the citizen-journalist through a phone call. The same source recalls that the mother of Rabii Al Ablak
By 2050, 300 million people will be affected by rising sea levels around the world. Several Moroccan cities will be affected by coastal floodings in the next twenty years, Climate Central suggests.
The Philippines’ government brought 32 Filipinos from Morocco, Egypt and Mexico, CNN Philippines said Wednesday. Quoting the country’s Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), the repatriated Filipinos were «either detained, figured in an accident, or were victims of human trafficking abroad». The same source indicates that two of the 32 Filipinos were «workers illegally deployed and trafficked to Morocco as household service workers». In June,
Bombardier’s unit in Morocco has been sold to the world’s first-tier aerostructures manufacturer Spirit AeroSystems, the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Green and Digital Economy said in a communiqué sent Thursday to Yabiladi. The acquisition agreement was signed five months after the Canadian firm put its factories in Casablanca and Belfast (Northern Ireland) up for sale in an attempt to consolidate its aerospace business into a single hub. The Morocco factory «will
The adoption of the new resolution on Western Sahara was not received in the same way by Rabat and Algiers. While Morocco welcomed the UN resolution, the Polisario Front voiced its disappointment, threatening to «reconsider its engagement in the UN peace process».
US President’s daughter and senior advisor Ivanka Trump is expected to visit Morocco to promote her women’s economic development program, American news agency Associated Press (AP) reports. Quoting the White House, AP indicates that the Ivanka Trump’s upcoming trip to the North African Kingdom is to take place in early November. Sean Cairncross, Chief Executive Officer of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, a bilateral United States foreign aid agency, and a former senior
As planned, the UN Security Council adopted a resolution, extending the mandate of the MINURSO for 12 months, until 31 October 2020 by 13 votes in favor to none against, with 2 abstentions (Russia and South Africa).
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