The University of Castilla–La Mancha has announced that it completed an excavation at Alarcos Castle, which was home to a battle between Spanish troops and Almohads. Scientists discovered the remains of 200 soldiers, in the archaeological site, who are believed to have fought against Almohad troops, El Pais reports. Excavations in the small village of Alarcos had begun in 1984. The remains of those who were killed during the battle, dubbed the «Alarcos disaster» (July
After snubbing Pretoria’s solidarity conference, SADC member states that attended Morocco’s parallel meeting on Western Sahara defended their choice. The two meetings made some of the organization’s leaders question SADC’s unity.
A Romanian official canceled his visit to Morocco, after Romania’s Prime Minister Virica Dancila said, March the 24th, in Washington that her country will move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, local online newspaper Romania-Insider reports. Reacting to the Romanian decision, Morocco informed the country's Senate president Calin Popescu-Tariceanu, who was expected to fly to the Kingdom, that it is not «available for meetings». This message was
One day after Morocco hosted a ministerial conference on the African Union's role in supporting the UN-led political process, the United Nations Secretary-General responded to that, supporting the efforts of his personal envoy to Western Sahara. In a daily press briefing, held Tuesday, the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General Stéphane Dujarric was asked by a reporter about the fact that «thirty‑seven African Union delegations made a declaration in support of the UN's
The chairperson of the African National Congress, a ruling party in South Africa, criticized Morocco for hosting a parallel conference on the same day SADC was organizing a meeting to support the Polisario Front.
The former lawyer of Imane Fadil, a Moroccan model who died March the 1st in suspicious circumstances, told media that investigators must consider the threats his former client received in the past, Italian newspaper Affaritaliani reports To answer questions related to her mysterious death, Paolo Sevesi who stopped defending the 34-year-old model, said that Fadil underwent «pressure» and was threatened by girls involved in the former Prime Minister’s scandal, since the
On Monday, US President Donald Trump recognized Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights, an occupied territory seized from Syria in 1967. Visiting the United States, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was with Trump at the White House when he signed the proclamation. «Today, it was my great honor to welcome Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel back to the White House where I signed a Presidential Proclamation recognizing Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan
Social media content shared and viewed by Maghrebi youngsters encourage irregular migration, a study reveals. Researchers from the Institute for Security Studies believe that posts romanticizing Europe as a destination for migrants must be censored.
The lawyers of a Moroccan father, who lives in Spain with his family denounced his expulsion, reports Spanish news agency EFE. Settled down in Alcala de Xivert (northern Spain) since 2014, the father of two girls aged 7 and 5 and a two-year-old child was sentenced in 2016 to three years in prison for selling cocaine. In the same year, a court in Teruel ordered his expulsion from the Spanish territory. However, this decision was not executed until 2019. The family and its lawyers learned with
The leader of Algeria’s Justice and Development Front party has announced that the current Speaker of the country’s Council of the Nation, the parliament’s upper chamber, could not run the country if President Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigns. To him, Abdelkader Bensalah’s Moroccan origins are the problem.