American online marketplace and hospitality service brokerage company Airbnb has announced that it started luxury listings in Morocco, Menabytes reported on Sunday. Last week, the San Francisco-based firm said that its new listings, Airbnb Luxe, will include luxurious villas, castles, private islands, and entire villages across the United States, Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa. These listings can reach an average price of $1,000 per night and go as high as $20, 000 per night, the same
Ahead of his third Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) game, French coach Hervé Renard, who currently manages Morocco’s Atlas Lions, said Sunday in a conference held in Egypt that he was contacted before by the South African Football Association (SAFA). The coach revealed that SAFA wanted to hire him to manage Bafana Bafana, South African newspaper Times Live reports. «Of course, I'm not cheap», Renard said with a smile on the face. Renard turned to Saudi Arabian-based
In Germany, right-wing activist organization Nordkreuz is suspected of having drawn up a list of left-wing figures and migrant and refugee rights militants, with the intent to kill them. According to the Guardian, the list includes mostly political leaders affiliated with the Social Democratic Party, the Greens, Die Linke and the Christian Democratic Union of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The information would have been gathered by Nordkreuz due to an access to police databases. Weapons,
In Italy and in Denmark, the highest averages at the baccalaureate were won by girls, who are of Moroccan descent. Indeed, Soumia Daoudi and Jihane Ouarkziz, both 17 years old, obtained respectively 20/20 and 21/20. Living in Denmark, the former had the highest mark on the baccalaureate exam in the literary section. Since yesterday, she has been sharing her joy through social networks, with her family living in Morocco. As for the latter, she successfully graduated, even exceeding
Karim Zidane moved to Germany by mere coincidence when he was 20 years old. Despite all difficulties, he managed to build himself a successful career, becoming a BMW engineer.
Morocco beat, Friday, Côte d’Ivoire, booking their play into the next round of the Africa Cup of Nations. Morocco’s opener was scored by striker Youssef En-Nesyri.
Flyers distributed by a Spanish trade union to help Moroccan seasonal workers know their rights in the fields featured an indecipherable Arabic script. The initiative launched since January was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Labor.
Quebec Prime Minister Francois Legault said, Thursday, that he «does not really think» that Islamophobic incidents have increased since the government passed a law, banning civil servants from wearing religious symbols. Legault’s statement comes as Muslim women wearing hijab or niqab in Quebec told Canadian broadcaster CBC that «since the legislation was tabled in March, they've been harassed, made the target of hateful comments, even spat on». Calling the
Claimants in far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders’ appeal demanded compensation, ranging from apologies to monetary amounts, NL Times reports. On Thursday, complaints attending the «fewer Moroccans» trial told the judges that they were harmed by Wilders’ statements against Moroccans. While some of them told the court that they were «frightened» by the Wilders’ words, others said that they «were anxious that they would be deported from the
The United States Department of State has approved a Foreign Military sale for an estimated cost of $250.4 million to help Morocco sustain support for its current F-A6 fleet, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said in a press release on Thursday. This sale will allow the Kingdom to buy equipment needed for its F-A6 fleet, including «F-16 support equipment, spares and repair parts, personnel training and training equipment, publications and technical documentation, munitions