Moroccan mining firm Managem announced Tuesday that it managed to get back its gold cargo seized by Sudanese authorities earlier in May, Reuters said. The 241 kg of gold were seized by the Sudanese Rapid Forces from a plane that arrived in Khartoum on May 8. The Sudanese authorities suspected that the cargo would have been smuggled. Quoted by the British press agency, Managem said that it had completed all administrative formalities as part of a regular delivery. In a statement,
Donald Trump’s senior advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner is currently visiting Morocco to seek support for the US Israeli-Palestinian peace plan. This visit comes as Bahrain is expected to host in June an international conference on the economic portion of the plan.
In a series of events, the Polisario Front has been insisting on the idea of being the only «legitimate representative of Saharwis». To back its stand, the Front relies on a non-binding resolution, adopted by the UN General Assembly in the 1970s.
Morocco’s 150 MW Noor III CSP tower, the third part of the Ouarzazate Solar Power Station, has exceeded performance targets on output and storage integration in the first months of operation, Senior Consultant at CSP engineering group Empresarios Agrupados (EA) Xavier Lara told New Energy Update. Quoting experts, New Energy Update reports that Noor III’s strong performance will «reduce reliability concerns for CSP tower with storage and lower the cost of capital for future
A Moroccan nurse, who worked at a clinic in Dubai, has accused her manager of «sexually harassing» her, Khaleej Times reports. The 23-year-old Moroccan nurse said that when she went to her manager’s office to claim her unpaid salary she was assaulted. The woman told the court of First Instance in Dubai that «when [she] raised the matter with him, he suddenly got nervous. He came close to [her] from behind his desk». She told the public prosecution
On Monday, several European countries unveiled vote results after the European Elections took place on Sunday, May 27. In France, far-right party National Rally, headed by Marine Le Pen, topped vote in EU elections, securing 23 seats. Europe Ecology-the Greens, won 13 seats behind the coalition led by La République En Marche! (23 seats). Moroccan candidate Mounir Satouri from Europe Ecology-the Greens became a Member of the European Parliament. Born in 1975 in Morocco, the
French coach Hervé Renard who currently manages Morocco’s national football team unveiled, Monday, the team squad he selected for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, expected to take place between 21 June and 19 July in Egypt. The preliminary list included Zamalek striker Khaled Boutaieb and Saudi Arabian top goal scorer Abderrazak Hamdallah, who helped his team Al Nasr win the league title. Renard’s squad includes goalkeepers Munir Mohamedi, Yassine Bounou, Ahmed Reda
Parties representing the Muslim community in both Melilla and Ceuta achieved different results following Spanish local elections' vote, held Sunday. In Melilla, Mustafa Aberchan’s Coalicion por Melilla (CpM) won eight seats in a 25-seat assembly. The party’s chances to preside a local government are real but depend on forming a coalition with the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) and Ciudadanos. Socialists got four councilors while the center-right formation got
In a tweet made public the weekend, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son, Yair, «called for Arabs and Muslims to conquer Spanish lands in North Africa», referring to Ceuta and Melilla. On May 25, Yair Netanyahu addressed Arabs and Muslims in a tweet, saying «want to free occupied Arab and Islamic lands ? Here’s a good start». His tweet featured a map that showed Ceuta and Melilla as occupied territories by Spain in North Africa. Dear Arabs and
Far-right Finnish politician Marco De Wit ripped up, Sunday, a copy of the Quran, Turkish press agency Anadolu reports. The leader of nationalistic political party Finnish People First tore a copy of the Quran into pieces in Helsinki in front of police officers, a member of the World Turkish Business Council’s European Committee told the Turkish agency. «I told the police officers that he was committing a hate crime and they should stop him. The officers did nothing», the