After they were greeted Saturday evening in Casablanca by Prince Moulay Hassan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex arrived Sunday in Morocco's Atlas Mountains where they met rural girls from the region, reports Reuters. The British royal couple met girls at a boarding house in Asni, a small town near Marrakech, run by NGO Education for All. Greeted by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, girls «from the boarding house waved the flags of Morocco and Britain», the same source
After the announcement of Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's candidacy for a fifth term at the presidential election on April 18, protesters massively took to the streets, February 22, to express their refusal of this decision, especially as the head of state suffers from serious health problems. #فبلادي_ظلموني من الحراك الشعبي بالشقيقة #الجزائر ??#حراك_22_فيفري pic.twitter.com/xpMr20Ai5p — La Gazzetta della RAJA (@GazzettaRaja)
A week after the loss of the 1,500m indoor record held by former Moroccan athlete Hicham El Guerrouj, Yahya Saidi, a specialist in sports regulations, put his two cents in the matter by suggesting on social media that the list of national athletes would not be so good if they did not engage in doping. The allegations made the Ministry of Youth and Sports react by rejecting any attack on the «sporting history of Moroccan champions». «The statements do not emanate from the
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex arrived, Saturday evening, at the Casablanca airport after a one-hour delay, reports Map news agency. Their Royal Air Maroc flight couldn't make it on time to the Kingdom, revealed the Kensington Palace in a communiqué relayed by Hello Magazine and the Daily Star. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex arrive in Rabat for #RoyalVisitMorocco!???? pic.twitter.com/5sXqyAeZtF — Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) February 23, 2019 p>The two sources
Born in France, near the country's border with Switzerland, Fouad Zrhari was into metalwork, which made him discover his passion for watchmaking. Today, he is a distinguished watchmaker with a brand that is famous among stars and celebrities.
Spanish Agriculture Minister Luis Planas has urged the Moroccan Parliament to quickly ratify the fisheries agreement. Unless an extraordinary session is called, Spain has to wait until April.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is to consider including Gnawa music in the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in December 2019, indicates a communiqué issued by the Ministry of Culture and Communication. After Morocco submitted a file in September 2018, the UN body will make its decision at the 14th session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage to be held in Bogota,
After spending seven months with the reserves, Moroccan international player Adel Taarabt joined Benfica's first-team training, the club's manager Bruno Lage told the BBC. Taarabt, who was loaned to Italian club Genoa for 18 months, was unable to «break into» the Portuguese club's team. After returning to the club, in 2017, he was put at Benfica's reserve. According to the BBC, Taarabt's future changed due to his new coach, who joined the club in January. «He [Taarabt]
Moroccan national Malika El Aroud, sentenced in 2008 for terror-related offences, will be expelled to the Kingdom. The decision was endorsed after authorities in Belgium concluded that she wouldn’t be «subjected to torture» if deported to Morocco, reports Le Soir. Delivered on Friday, the ruling pronounced by the Aliens Litigation Council stated that the El Aroud can be taken back to her country of origin, after she appealed against her expulsion, stressing that she might be
In his 1820 account, a foreign merchant in Mogador described the fear, calamities and deaths that accompanied the 1799 plague. James G. Jackson's detailed letteres addressed the rise, progress and decrease of the epidemy that killed thousands of people in Morocco.