A new draft report on the Western Sahara conflict has been submitted to the Security Council by the UN Secretary-General this week. The report was quoted differently by Moroccan and pro-Polisario news platforms.
The 5th edition US-Morocco Business Forum opened, Thursday, in Miami, Florida, MAP press agency reports. The event is attended by government officials, business leaders, experts and diplomats. During this annual meeting, attendees will be discussing the recent developments of trade between the United States, the Kingdom of Morocco and other African countries, in addition to studying ways to further strengthen business opportunities. The event is part of a series of similar forums organized in
«Contemporary Muslim Fashions», an exhibition dedicated to Muslim women and their fashion, is opening soon in Frankfurt, Germany, where it had already stirred controversy, French weekly Le Point reports. After it was shown at the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco, the exhibition has been making headlines in Germany days before its opening. In an article entitled «Tolerance makes us blind», German platform Frankfurter Allgemeine slammed the exhibition
Scientists have found that cannabis resin brought to the streets of Madrid from Morocco is contaminated. A study titled «Cannabis resin in the region of Madrid : Adulteration and contamination» and published in the journal Forensic Science International revealed that hashish sold in Madrid contains «high levels of fecal matter». According to the same study, quoted by the Epoch Times, almost «75 percent» of Madrid’s cannabis is «unsuitable for
According to a new analysis conducted by the New York Times, white extremists who carried out deadly terror attacks, during the past eight years, are connected. The American newspaper reveals that these far-right terrorists drew inspiration from each other.
To British playwright Aisha Zia, Islamophobia is the «biggest problem of our time». The woman is opening a gallery in the UK to fight against the phenomenon and enable Muslim artists to showcase their work, BBC reports. Located in Peterborough, a city in eastern England, the gallery is meant to be a «social platform», said Zia, who has been working on this project after quitting her job as a photo editor. «Islamophobia is everyone’s issue», Zia told
Brenton Tarrant, the self-declared white supremacist who killed 50 Muslim worshippers in one of New Zealand’s bloodiest terror attacks, has reportedly sent money to French nationalist movement Génération identitaire, AFP reports. In 2017, the Australian terrorist sent 2,200 euros to the far-right movement. According to German news platform DW, a police official from Germany’s investigative Federal Criminal Police Office «told parliamentarians that the
Greece’s first official mosque, which is currently under construction, will be led by a Moroccan imam, the National Herald reports. An administrative committee, assigned by the Greek government to run the mosque, chose Moroccan-born Zaki Mohammed to be an imam for the new mosque. The latter has been an imam «at one of the five makeshift prayer rooms in Athens», recognized by the Greek Education Minister Costas Gavroglou. The Moroccan imam was selected after a «panel
After a delegation from the Front was received by the Irish President in Dublin, Brahim Ghali and two of the Polisario’s members flew to Iceland. In Reykjavik, the separatist movement’s leader was received by the Icelandic Prime Minister.
In a letter addressed to the Moroccan Minister of Justice Mohamed Aujar, Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) urged the Moroccan government to put an end to the «suffering» of Hirak leading figure, Nasser Zefzafi. Sent on April the 3rd, the letter signed by 24 MEPs and a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, referred to the «situation of imprisoned activists of the Hirak», calling for the immediate release of all prisoners. Moreover, MEPs