The Saudi's Sports Authority's chairman Turki a-Sheikh, close to Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Salmane, has been sending a clear message regarding the Morocco's bid to host the 2026 World Cup. At the end of a meeting he held with Carlos Cordeiro, an American soccer administrator who is currently chairman of the United States-Canada-Mexico bid committee, Turki al-Sheikh praised the North American bidding file, calling it a «strong» one. Cordeiro was on a visit to Ryad to get the
Ahmed Boukhari, Polisario representative at the UN, died Tuesday in a clinic in Bilbao, Spain. His death was confirmed by the Saharawi news agency that also «decreed an official mourning of 7 days, starting on April 4» in the Tindouf camps. Ahmed Boukhari - same as Mhamed Khaddad - had managed to hold a position in New York, despite the changes that affected the leadership of the Front. He is also the brother of Haj Ahmed, a former «minister»
Following an article relayed by the national media about Hervé Renard’s exit after the 2018 World Cup in Russia, the Atlas Lions’ current manager shut down the rumors in a statement reported by RMC Sport. «In order to immediately cut short the unfounded rumors and speculation reported by certain medias today, I say calmly but strongly: 'I am very, very well with Morocco!», responded the French coach and former football player. These rumors have gone viral only
A deux milliards de dirhams, le résultat net part du groupe (RNPG) de BMCE Bank of Africa aura maintenu une stabilité au titre de l’exercice 2017. Un résultat lié à la performance non-récurrente des activités de marché, enregistrée en 2016 au Maroc. L’annonce de ces résultats a été faite lundi à Casablanca par Brahim Benjelloun Touimi, administrateur directeur
Unlike expectations, a member of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF), the continental governing body for association football in North America, which includes Central America and the Caribbean region, has publically announced that it is supporting the Moroccan bid to host the 2026 World Cup, reports The Inside World Football on Tuesday. St Lucia’s decision was made public by its Development and Sports Minister Edmund Estephane last
The trial of a Moroccan national believed to be Abdehamid Abaaoud’s alleged informant (the alleged mastermind of the Paris attacks in 2015), was opened Tuesday in Katowice, Poland, said the PAP news agency, relayed by Paris Match. The accused is identified as M. T., a 28-year-old Moroccan man who has been detained in Poland since 2016. The latter is tried for «belonging to a terrorist organization» from December 2014 to September 2016. He faces an eight-year
A 21-year-old woman has been tried on Tuesday, 3rd of April, after being accused of posting more than 230 photos and videos on social media justifying terrorism, reports the Spanish TV channel Antena 3. The Moroccan national also broadcast texts praising the holy war. She is facing a seven-year sentence. Since 2014, this young woman was objected to «an intense process of religious radicalization,» said the prosecutor, María Antonia Sanz, in the indictment, together
Belgian Justice Minister Koen Geens (Christian Democrats and Flemings) will sign an agreement with Morocco's authorities on Tuesday (April 3rd) to better cooperation when it comes to the seizure of money related to drug trafficking, reports the Dutch newspapers Het Nieuwsblad and Gazet van Antwerpen, relayed by Le Soir. «Until now, the Moroccan authorities were not ready to collaborate. Since 2013, Belgium has asked more than a hundred times for help in cases related to narcotics and
A woman working for the Belgian embassy in Morocco was stabbed 13 times by her ex-husband in Rabat, reports the Dutch-language Belgian daily newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws on Tuesday. Nicknamed Melanie, the victim who died surrendering to her wounds worked as the assistant to a Belgian magistrate at the embassy. Mother of an 8-year-old boy, from her first marriage, she had remarried another man of Moroccan origin who had lived in Denmark, before divorcing last year. The tragedy occurred
The UN has not observed any incursion led by the Polisario armed elements in the buffer zones, said on Monday Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General answering a question on the current crisis in Morocco. «With respect to that situation, our colleagues in MINURSO [United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara] have not observed any movement of military elements in the northeast territory», said Dujarric during a daily press briefing held