The PixelHelper Holocaust memorial in Ait Faska, under construction since September 2018, was demolished, Monday, by the local authorities. They stated that the German NGO did not have the necessary authorizations to build such a facility.
While Yokohama is expected to host the 7th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) Summit from August 28-30, Japan reiterated its position regarding the presence of the «SADR». The meeting will, in fact, be attended by the Polisario front’s representatives.
In Israel, the World Federation of Moroccan Jewry will celebrate this week the 60th anniversary of immigration from Morocco, reports The Jerusalem Post. «Today, before the Federation’s figures, more than one million immigrants [and their descendants] from Morocco live in Israel, making them the second-largest community after immigration from the Commonwealth», the World Federation of Moroccan Jewry said. According to the Federation, more than 300,000 Moroccan Jewish
The Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through the Pakistani Customs Administration, is seeking information on a significant number of tax-exempt items that the Moroccan embassy in the country has purchased. Pakistani diplomacy says it wants to ensure that the procedure complies with the law to remove any suspicion of fraud under the guise of diplomatic immunity, according to Pakistan Today. Indeed, the same source indicated that the Moroccan embassy would have imported, on August 16, 26
After posting several videos, denouncing the situation of several Moroccans who had to pay additional taxes for their vehicles at the Spanish Customs, Anouar Bourabaa criticized the attitude of the Spanish authorities, accusing them of not informing Moroccans living abroad of their decision to trap them.
Despite a bleeding foot, he did not give up the race and the gold medal. At the meeting of the Paris Diamond League of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the Moroccan athlete Soufiane El Bakkali won on Saturday night, the event of the 3000 m steeplechase. A victory that comes at a cost, reports the IAAF website, which points out that the Moroccan athlete was wounded in the foot and that traces of blood were visible on his shoe. In the same race, Kenyan world and
China would have paid for advertisements on Facebook and Twitter, while these two platforms remain blocked in the country, to spread false information about internment camps of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang. This is what investigations published earlier this week by The Intercept and BuzzFeed News and relayed by American media Vox revealed. Indeed, BuzzFeed News revealed that Chinese state media would have posted Facebook ads designed to challenge the alleged human rights violations during
An Israeli convict, who is accused of having murdered three people and who had fled his house arrest last year, was captured Saturday by the Moroccan police, as reported by the Sunday Times of Israel citing other Hebrew media. Golan Avitan was reportedly arrested in a synagogue in Casablanca while his children from Israel visited him. According to reports relayed by the Israeli press, he was reportedly taken to a detention center in the capital Rabat and would have chosen a lawyer. Golan
Following the information relayed by several media, including Yabiladi, about the house nestled in the ramparts of Marrakech at Bab Doukkala, the local authorities decided to finally react. On Friday, Amal Mellakh, researcher in tangible and intangible heritage, shared photos and a video on her Facebook page of the demolition of the house. She said that «a procedure was started by the Wilaya of Marrakech» to «empty the buildings, compensate the occupants, and proceed with the
Several Moroccans living abroad, returning to Europe after visiting Morocco with their vehicles, which have provisional plates, found themselves stranded at the Algeciras port. They have to pay a sum equivalent to 30% of the value of their cars, as they are deemed to have been illegally imported to Spain.