A British Airways flight, linking London’s Gatwick airport to that of Marrakech, was forced to make an emergency landing at the Porto airport in Portugal on Thursday, October 17. According to the Daily Mail and The Sun, the Airbus A230 was carrying 167 passengers. A British Airways spokesperson said that the pilot «had decided to divert as a precaution due to a technical issue». «We're very sorry for the delay to our customers' journeys after our aircraft diverted as a
The United States Army Africa, an Army service component command of United States Africa Command, is having big plans for «African Lion», a military exercise held in Morocco, Tunisia, Senegal and Spain. The body is planning to make the exercise «the biggest on the African continent in spring 2020», Army Times reports. Although the US Marine Corps Forces Europe and Africa owned «African Lion» for 16 years, Army Africa is expected to «assume
Fossils found in Morocco show that animals developed a remarkable collective behavior 480 million years ago. These sea animals, which lived in the Kingdom, knew how to form orderly lines to mate and interact.
Morocco police expelled, Thursday, two Danish activists from Morocco’s southern provinces, one of the expelled activists told Spanish news agency EFE. Mille Neumann explained that she and Katinka Klinge Albrectsen arrived Wednesday night in Agadir on a flight from Copenhagen. They then took a bus to Laayoune, for a visit to Dakhla. When the bus reached on Thursday a checkpoint near Laayoune, the Moroccan police prevented the Global Action activists from entering the city.
Banque Centrale Populaire (BCP), one of Morocco’s biggest banks, announced on Thursday that it had acquired 71% stake in Banque de Madagascar et de l’Ocean Indien (BMOI) from Groupe BPCE, a French banking group, Reuters reports. The deal is part of BCP’s plan to reinforce its presence in Africa. Last week, the bank, which has subsidiaries in 30 countries around the world, bought a 100% stake in Banque Commerciale Internationale (BCI) in the Republic of Congo from the same
Every year, twelve Moroccan students can live their passion for science by applying for the US space camp program. Last year, these science-lovers left Morocco for Alabama to walk in astronauts' shoes and yesterday in Casablanca two of them shared with Yabiladi their life-changing experiences.
Unlike Islamists in the Kingdom, who have remained silent over the Turkish military intervention in Syria, several Moroccan Amazigh associations have showed support for the Kurdish population. They accuse Ankara of wanting to «exterminate» Kurds.
Spain recorded 23,600 undocumented arrivals between January and October, 47% less that what was registered during the same period last year. According to an internal report of the European Commission, the «decrease is largely owed to renewed efforts by Morocco to stop migrants from departing from its coastline», El Pais reports. «The preventive efforts by Moroccan authorities continue to be effective, and they are key to understanding the strong reduction in
Shortly after it was announced that Moroccan journalist Hajar Raissouni was pardoned by the king, several activists welcomed the decision. However, to some of them, the release of the Akhbar Al Yaoum reporter should not put an end to the debate on reforming some laws.
The UN Security Council held a closed-door meeting, Wednesday, to discuss the Western Sahara conflict. Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Western Sahara and Head of MINURSO Colin Stewart and Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Bintou Keita commented on the situation in Western Sahara in the last six months, following the adoption of resolution 2468 in April. The meeting addressed, as well, the appointment of a new personal envoy to Western
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