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Despite the official ban announced through a communiqué earlier this week, activists and civilians took the streets yesterday to call for the release of the Hirak detainees in a march. Clashing with the police, protesters tried to gather forming a marching group that attempted to head in failing endeavors to Mohammed VI square, where several marches and demonstrations were organized during the last eight months. According to Yabiladi’s on-the-scene reporter, police fired
In 1921, nine years after the beginning of the protectorate, the Spanish were still unable to take control of Morocco’s northernmost region. On July the 21st of the same year, Berber combatants led by Abdelkrim El Khattabi defeated the Spanish army Africa. After 18 days of siege, Spanish forces under the command of General Manuel Fernandez Silvestre were attacked and destroyed and almost 10,000 were killed. Their leader went missing and rumors suggested that he committed
Fitch Ratings believes that Moroccan banks could be subject to difficulty when exposed to external shocks. The agency explains in a report issued yesterday that financial institutions in the Kingdom, due to their weak assets may not be well-suited or have the adequate means for their high risk appetite and some of their current ventures. To put it in other words, Fitch indicates that Moroccan banks' capital, (also known as tangible common equity) is on average only 10% of their assets which is
Khalid Belfken, a Moroccan illegal immigrant was granted a 40, 000 pounds (around 500 000 dirham) for being «locked up too long». In an article published by the Daily Mail online newspaper, the British media platform reports that Belfken who has a quite heavy criminal record will be compensated for the time he spent detained. The Home Office, a ministerial department of the queen’s government of the United Kingdom, responsible for immigration, security and law and
8: 57 pm The situation is provisionally calm in Al Hoceima’s city center The situation is de-escalating at the moment in Al Hoceima as cars are allowed in Mohammed V Boulevard, as reported by Yabiladi’s correspondent. «The area near Mohammed VI square is quiet for the moment although other neighborhoods where protesters are in a constant clash with police». 8: 06 pm Protesters install protective barriers around the police Demonstrators rallying in Al Hoceima have
Following the verdict pronounced by the Moroccan court of Appeal in Sale, near Rabat, Amnesty International, a non-governmental organization focused on human rights reported in an article published on its official website that the court failed to investigate torture allegations. Speaking to the same source Heba Morayef, a North Africa research director at the Amnesty International announced that «during the trial most defendants told the court they were tortured into
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