Morocco Football Federation president Faouzi Lekjaa attended, Thursday, the funeral of Dutch-Moroccan footballer Mohammed Ihattren’s father in Al Hoceima. Before he headed to Al Hoceima, Royal Moroccan Football Federation head sent a delegation to Utrecht to show support for Ihattaren and his family. The football body also helped the player bury his deceased father in his hometown, Al Hoceima. For the record, Mohamed Ihattaren has recently made headlines in Morocco and the
In his new report on the Western Sahara conflict, the UN Secretary-General focused on the actions undertaken by MINURSO. According to Antonio Guterres, the peacekeeping mission has proposed the creation of a joint military mechanism between Morocco and the Polisario.
After an anonymous source within Royal Air Maroc (RAM) told Reuters, Thursday, that Morocco’s national career has put on hold a deal to purchase two Boeing 737 MAX jets after the tragic Ethiopia plane crash, the company denied the report. In an article published, Friday, RAM's director of external communications Hakim Challot told the British news agency that «the order to receive the two aircraft has never been canceled». RAM was expected to receive the two 737 MAX
A Sahrawi journalist was sentenced, Wednesday, to six years in prison by an appeal court for taking part in the city of Laayoune. Walid Salek Batal was accused of «crossing roadblocks, insulting public officials and weapon possession», his lawyer Lahbib Rguibi told Spanish news agency EFE. The lawyer said that Walid Salek Batal was arrested in Smara in April after «an altercation with the police, which set a fence around the house of a Sahrawi activist». The
In a report released Thursday, Amnesty International revealed that two Moroccan human rights defenders have been targeted, since 2017, with malicious SMS attacks aimed at installing an Israeli-developed spyware.
Karim Akalay Bensellam, 36, is a Moroccan major in the Italian army, who decided to speak about discrimination within the military forces, starting with his own struggles. According to Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera, Bensellam lodged a complaint against a sergeant for «racism». The soldier is accused of allegedly insulting and discriminating against Karim Akalay Bensellam before many soldiers, wrote the judge. The Moroccan-Italian major alleges that said sergeant used to
After the Moroccan Foreign Ministry announced, last week, that Lesotho has «frozen recognition of SADR», the landlocked Kingdom made a U-turn on its decision. It’s recent position was voiced, Wednesday, one day after sending a reassuring letter to the Polisario Front.
King Mohammed VI received on Wednesday, at the Royal Palace in Rabat, the head of government Saadeddine El Othmani and the new members of the government. The newly appointed members are Mustapha Ramid, Minister of State for Human Rights and Relations with the Parliament, Interior Abdelouafi Laftit, Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, Justice Minister Mohamed Benabdelkader, Ahmed Taoufik, Minister of Habous and Islamic Affairs and Mohamed El Hajjoui, Secretary General of the Government. The list
Morocco’s business competitiveness is ranked third in Africa, according to the World Economic Forum’s recent edition of the Global Competitiveness Index. Morocco maintains the same performance as last year in a ranking that covers 141 economies.
«De Belofte van Pisa», a Dutch movie directed by Norbert ter Hall and based on the novel of Moroccan-Dutch writer Mano Bouzamour is to premier, Thursday, in the Netherlands, NRC reports. The movie tells the story a Moroccan-Dutch young man and the «barriers that he has to overcome to be the first member of his family to obtain a degree from a prestigious high school in Amsterdam», wrote the Dutch newspaper. The new movie also highlights others problems that
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