In the 18th century, English convert Ahmed El Inglizi was hired by Sultan Mohammed ben Abdellah to build parts of Essaouira. The architect, who left Christianity for Islam, was known for refurbishing Rabat’s ancient Medina and joining corsairs in Salé.
Spanish left-wing party, Podemos, has sought the help of the Constitutional court to host a meeting on Western Sahara in the Spanish parliament. This meeting was banned, before, by the lower house.
In the European Parliament, the committee on Fisheries is expected to hold a meeting on the Morocco-EU fisheries agreement. The Kingdom and Spain are paying close attention to the gathering.
After it was shared on social media days after the awful Imlil killings, a graphic video allegedly depicting the beheading of one of the victims has been watched by primary school students in Denmark.
Pro-polisario Sahrawis sent a letter to the European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, protesting against a proposal related to Morocco-EU association agreement. This letter was made public after Sahrawi political actors in Morocco’s Saharan provinces sent a petition to EU bodies.
A Polisario delegation has attended the inauguration ceremony of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. This visit comes as Morocco and the Latin American country have tried to reestablish diplomatic ties after a long rupture.
He is a journalist, comedian, radio and TV presenter, and a painter. Mohamed Lotfi lives currently in Montreal, where he arrived in the 1980s as a student.
A Danish citizen has launched a fundraising campaign to award two Moroccan vendors who notified the police about the three main suspects, accused of killing two Scandinavian tourists in Imlil.
After the US House of Representatives passed a bill that treats Western Sahara as a «sovereign entity», pro-Polisario lobbyists in the Senate took the lead, stressing that they would endorse MPs’ will to exclude the Saharan provinces from economic assistance granted to the Kingdom.
Morocco is among the countries that have a hybrid regime, according to the Democracy index. The report compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit ranks Morocco third in the MENA region.