Spain's Ministry of the Interior has denied asylum requests from a brother and sister claiming to be Sahrawi activists persecuted by Moroccan authorities. The disabled siblings, residing in Laayoune, arrived in Madrid from Casablanca and subsequently applied for asylum at Barajas airport, Spanish media reported. Despite the rejection, the pair have received support from the Spanish representation of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which urged the Spanish government
Spain's Director General of Civil Protection and Emergencies, Virginia Barcones, announced that the current Operation Strait Crossing (OPE) is on track to be the largest in its 35-year history, based on passenger and vehicle numbers. During a press conference at the Ceuta Government Delegation on Saturday, Barcones assessed the operation's progress. The past weekend was considered a peak period as many Moroccan families living in Europe traveled to and from their home country for summer
On the night of August 4-5, a 24-year-old Moroccan man was stabbed to death in Pontecorvo, a municipality in the Italian region of Frosinone, according to the Italian press. Residents of the area called the police after hearing screams, and when the police patrol arrived at the scene, they found the young man lying on the ground in a pool of blood, while his attacker had fled. The incident began with an argument between two young men, during which one of them used a knife to fatally stab the
The National Secretariat of the Moroccan Front for Palestine Support and Anti-Normalization expressed strong disapproval of the recent decision to receive a «new official at the Zionist Liaison Office in Rabat», replacing David Govrin who served Israel's permanent ambassador to Morocco. They group emphasized the «sentiment among many Moroccans who wish to sever relations with the occupation entity, cancel the normalization agreement and its subsidiary agreements, close the
A 31-year-old Moroccan took his own life on Saturday, August 3rd, in his cell in the Cremona District Prison in Italy’s Lombardy region, local media reported. The inmate who committed suicide was homeless, according to the same source, adding that he had been charged with «robbery and sexual violence». The Moroccan is the 62nd inmate to take his own life since the beginning of 2024 in Italy, the local newspaper reported. The same source adds that the Cremona prison,
The mayor of Ile-Saint-Denis, Mohamed Gnabaly, ordered the closure of the Moroccan stand at Station Afrique, a fan zone within the Olympic Village. The decision followed comments made by Moroccan singer Saida Charaf, of Saharan origin, expressing support for Morocco's position on Western Sahara. In a press release, the ecologist mayor justified terminating the agreement with the Moroccan embassy due to a breach of neutrality commitments. He stated, «International politics have no place
The next ordinary summit of the African Union, scheduled for February 2025, will see a race between Morocco and Algeria to win the first vice-presidency of the AU Commission, a position that is designated for the northern region of the continent. On August 3 and July 31, respectively, the two neighboring countries submitted their candidacies to the SADR's representative, Lamine Baali, who acts as dean of the regional grouping. He will forward them to the AU organs, according to Polisario media
A government delegation from Nigeria, led by the Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Transportation/Marine and Blue Economy, Olufemi Oloruntola, paid a working visit to Dakhla on Thursday to learn about Morocco's experience in the fields of maritime fishing and ports, according to MAP. The mission visited the construction site of the Dakhla Atlantique port project, an industrial unit for the enhancement of small pelagics, the aquaculture laboratory of the Institut National de
Violent riots erupted in multiple British cities on Saturday following the murder of three young girls in northern England. The unrest involved hundreds of anti-immigration protesters who took to the streets after false rumors circulated on social media. These rumors falsely claimed that the suspect in Monday's fatal stabbing at a children's dance class in Southport was a radicalized Muslim immigrant, reports Reuters. Police have identified the suspect as 17-year-old Axel Rudakubana, a
After forty-eight hours of waiting, the Polisario leader left Nouakchott on Saturday afternoon without having been received by President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani. Brahim Ghali was the last guest at the investiture ceremony, held on Thursday, August 1, to leave Mauritania. He had tried to secure an audience with the Mauritanian president, according to a local media report, but to no avail. Ghali arrived in Nouakchott on Wednesday, July 31, aboard an Algerian presidential plane made
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