Le gouvernement a mis en place un programme d'urgence pour faire face au problème de pénurie d'eau. Il vise en premier lieu à assurer l'approvisionnement en eau potable des zones dépendant principalement de sources d'eau vulnérables, et à garantir l'irrigation des arbres fruitiers, a indiqué lundi le chef du gouvernement, Saâdeddine El Othmani. Intervenant dans le cadre de la séance mensuelle des questions orales à la Chambre
Deux enfants ont trouvé la mort et une femme a été grièvement blessée dans un accident de la circulation, lundi dans le quartier Al Farah à Tiflet, apprend-on auprès des autorités locales. A leur sortie de la crèche, les victimes, une fille de 5 ans et un garçon de 3 ans, ont été percutées par une voiture au moment où elles traversaient la route en compagnie de la mère de la fille.
Moroccan athletes Moussaab Hadout and Nazha Machrouch won the 33rd edition of the 2017 Media Maraton in Cordoba, held on Sunday with record participation of 8,300 athletes, Spanish media reported on Monday. Moussaab Hadout arrived first (01h 03min 54sec), ahead of the Spanish athlete of Guinean descent, Alhassane Bangoura (01h 06min 47sec) and another Moroccan national, Abdelfatah Dalal Jirari (01h 06min 49sec). On the other hand, the Moroccan athlete Nadha Machrouh finished first in 1:15:35,
Two Moroccan nationals were arrested earlier this morning during an operation carried out by the Mossos d'Esquadra, the Catalan police, in Sant Pere de Ribes, a municipality in the province of Barcelona, says the newspaper La Vanguardia. The two men are suspected of belonging to a terrorist cell linked to ISIS. This operation is connected to an investigation initiated several months ago against individuals who promoted terrorism on social media, tweeted the Catalan police. «Several
A rally was held on Thursday, 23rd of November, in Boston, Massachusetts to demand the release of Siham Byah, a Moroccan national living in the USA since 1999, and her son detained for 10 days by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Siham, mother of an 8-year-old American citizen was put into custody at the beginning of the current month and is to be deported back to Morocco, reports BUnews service. 50 people gathered in front of the JFK Federal building for the second time after 200
The excessively hot weather of Morocco is expected to lead to a sharp drop in the volumes of citrus produced in the kingdom throughout the years, reports Fresh Fruit portal. The main exporter of citrus is expected to decline by 15 to 20%, from 2.3 million tons last year to about 2 million tons, according to a statement issued by Agri Morocco. For about four months, temperature in Morocco has been unusually high, creating drought conditions and reducing fruit size. The eastern region and
A young Moroccan man has denounced the behavior of two police officers in Melilla for having repeatedly assaulted him; reports the Spanish TV channel Antena 3. A CCTV camera on the borders shows how one of the two agents hit a driver through the window of his car. The young man, who delivers goods, tried to avoid the blows by moving on the other seat of the car without leaving it. The policeman then extracted him from the car and searched him. After the policeman hit the young man on the
King Mohammed VI arrived on Sunday afternoon in Abidjan, the royal cabinet announced in a statement. The king is supposed to participate to the 5th African Union- European Union summit scheduled for the 29 and 30 of November in the Ivorian economic capital, the same source added. The participation of the sovereign in this international meeting definitely puts an end to the speculations that surrounded Morocco’s presence at the summit. This decision goes hand in hand with Morocco’s
Le président de la Fédération royale marocaine de surf, Mohamed Kadmiri, a été élu président de la confédération africaine de la discipline, au cours de l'assemblée générale constitutive tenue samedi à Rabat. Par la même occasion, le Sud-Africain Johny Bakker a été élu premier vice-président et le Sénégalais Omar Sye deuxième vice-président
Douze membres de l’équipe féminine de football de l’Olympique de Safi ont été blessées, samedi, suite au renversement de l’autocar qui transportait leur équipe au niveau de la commune de Tah, dans la province de Tarfaya, a-t-on appris de source hospitalière. Les blessées, dont trois atteintes à la tête, ont été évacuées vers l’hôpital Moulay El-Hassan Belmehdi à