Moroccan authorities decided on Monday to suspend flights to and from Poland, Norway, Finland and Greece. According to the announcement published on the Facebook page of the National Airports Office (ONDA), this measure also concerns flights to and from Lebanon, and Kuwait. The same source adds that «passengers traveling from these countries through another country are also affected» by this suspension. As part of the preventive measures against the spread of the new
More than 150 migrants climbed, Monday, the fence separating the city of Melilla from Morocco. Only 59 of them managed to reach the city, according to the Spanish authorities. The attempt took place at around 6 am, the prefecture of Melilla announced in a statement, adding that three members of the Civil Guard and two migrants were slightly injured, Info Migrants wrote. The migrants who managed to cross the fence into Melilla were immediately taken to a health center to be tested for
The Mauritanian army is expected to launch a series of military exercises in mid-March, local newspaper Sahara Médias reported. They will take place in the wilaya of Tiris Zemmour, located in northern Mauritania near the border with Morocco and Algeria. The area is also known for being the main way for the population of the Tindouf camps when heading to Mauritania. These maneuvers come almost two months after the adoption by the Council of Ministers chaired by Head of State
In Spain, the trial of a suspected terrorist cell began last week. Among the accused is Moroccan national Noureddine Chikar, a businessman with a project to import, transform and export raw textile materials, based in Nador, and financed by the council of the Oriental region. The Moroccan is being prosecuted for «illegal possession of weapons, money laundering and embezzlement, falsification of commercial documents and crimes against cultural property». Noureddine
102 new coronavirus cases were recorded in Morocco during the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country to 486,325. 3,961,941 people have received the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine so far, while 651,351 people have received the second. 304 new recoveries were recorded during the same period, bringing the total number of recoveries to 472,544. One death was recorded the Marrakech-Safi region, bringing the total number of Covid-19-related deaths to
Switzerland narrowly voted on Sunday in favor of banning face coverings in public. «Official results showed the measure had passed by 51.2% to 48.8% in Sunday's referendum», BBC wrote. The proposal was submitted by right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP), which launched a campaign with slogans saying, «Stop extremism». «Today's decision opens old wounds, further expands the principle of legal inequality, and sends a clear signal of exclusion to the Muslim
French by citizenship, Lebanese by origin and Moroccan by choice, Grégory Chekib imagines characters from the world of pop culture within a Moroccan context. Used to drawing strange and crazy characters (doodles) in an improvised way, the artist tells this time about his daily life in Casablanca through the series «Super heroes in Morocco».
A component isolated from a Moroccan fungus that grows on the roots of a local plant, has shown positive results in fighting aggressive triple negative breast cancer, scientists revealed.
The local government in Melilla is planning to set up a «construction and civil engineering school» to train unemployed people in the city and avoid relying on Moroccan workers. The decision was made one year after the closure of the border with Morocco, Europa Press reports. Quoting the acting president of the public employment company Proyecto Melilla, Emilio Guerra, the agency explains that it is a «project that the autonomous city wanted to launch on several
The Algerian Foreign Ministry has declared a new war against Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara. This time, this war targets the Kingdom’s maps that include Western Sahara and are presented during international conferences, reports Echoroukonline on Sunday. The Algerian Foreign Minister Sabri Boukadoum requested the assistance of his colleague, Minister of Higher Education, who immediately put Algerian academics on alert. «I am honored to inform you that the