Morocco and Algeria have mutually agreed to suspend air travel between each other as a preventive measure to avoid the spread of the novel coronavirus. According to Algerian media, the country's airline company Air Algérie announced Thursday evening that this measure has been taken in concert between the governments of the two countries which will both apply it to curb contagion. Consequently, the national Moroccan carrier Royal Air Maroc (RAM) has also announced in a press
Individuals and businesses are among the thousands of victims affected by the debt recovery cases, dealt with in an extremely rapid way and unbeknownst to debtors at the Casablanca Court of First Instance. The practices did not exclude small associations and NGOs that help children, young people and people in need.
More than 81,375 recovery cases were handled by a Casablanca court in almost record periods and unbeknownst to debtors. The practices unveiled by Yabiladi are denounced by consumer rights organizations.
The Speaker of Morocco’s House of Representatives Habib El Malki received, Thursday, Algeria’s ambassador to Rabat Abdelhamid Abdaoui, who was recently appointed. During this meeting, El Malki confirmed that what units «Morocco with Algeria is greater than what separates them», a communiqué sent by the House of Representatives read. «Unity factors between the two countries are very strong and multiple», he added, referring to shared history, memory,
In its 2019 country report on human rights practices, the US Department of State referred to the most significant human rights issues in Morocco. Most of them were linked to torture allegations and freedom of speech.
On Wednesday, King Mohammed VI received at the Royal Palace in Casablanca the four new members appointed to the Constitutional Court. They are Latifa El Khal and El Houssain Abouchi, appointed by the sovereign, Mohamed Alami, elected by the House of Representatives, as well as Khalid Berjaoui, who has been elected by the House of Councilors. During this hearing, the four new members were sworn in before the king, in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution and the organic law of
After Yabiladi revealed that thousands of debt recovery cases were being handled in an extremely rapid way and without giving a chance to debtors to defend their cases, the main judges involved in these practices seem to have lowered the pace of their work. Will the new pace remain the same ?
An uproar has started among lawyers, bailiffs, judges and companies involved in the industrialization of justice and the privatization of the Casablanca court of First Instance, simply known now as #MahkamaGate.
The man behind North Africa’s first Holocaust Memorial said that he had received a letter from the authorities, ordering him to leave the country and to put an end to his NGO’s activities. Speaking to Yabiladi, Oliver Bienkowski said that he is planning to bring the case to court, resisting his expulsion.
Health authorities announced, Wednesday, Morocco’s sixth coronavirus case. The patient is a French-Senegalese woman who came from France on March 6 and landed in the city of Fes. After she showed respiratory symptoms, the 64-year-old woman, who suffers from chronical diseases, went for a check out on March 7. The woman tested positive for the virus and was admitted to a hospital by the sanitary authorities, the Ministry said in a press release. Earlier on Wednesday, two confirmed