Many parliamentarians are either behind bars or under judicial prosecution since the last general elections. The list includes more than 20 MPs, most of them are from the National Rally of Independents, followed by the Constitutional Union Party, the Authenticity and Modernity Party, then the Socialist Union and the Popular Movement.
A Moroccan family has been forced to leave their house in Urk, a town in the central Netherlands, after facing harassment and attacks triggered by a false accusation against their teenage son. According to regional newspaper Omroep Flevoland, the family consisting of a grandmother, parents and three minor children left their home for more than a month and a half after their minor son was wrongly blamed for burning Israeli flags. The teenager became the target of online abuse that
Canadian police have pressed charges against a call center employee, arrested in Morocco on November 27 for cyber extortion and fake bomb threats, after targeting several facilities in Canada. The Casablanca man is charged by the Ontario Provincial police (OPP) with «two counts of uttering threats, two counts of mischief and two counts of extortion», CBC reported on Wednesday, quoting an OPP press release. Arrested following an investigation conducted by Morocco’s National
The names of the Moroccan national football team players summoned to participate to the upcoming TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations were finally unveiled. The final list, published Thursday by the Atlas Lions’ official X account, includes 27 players, namely goalkeepers Yaassine Bounou, Munir El Kajoui, and El Mehdi Benabid. The squad also comprises of defenders Ghanem Saiss, Naif Aguerd, Chadi Riad, Abdelkabir Abqar, Yunis Abdelhamid, Achraf Hakimi, Mohamed Chibi, Noussair
«Pedro Sanchez has renounced» his support for the Moroccan autonomy plan for Western Sahara. This is the astonishing version given by the Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs to justify the resumption of his country's relations with Spain.
A Casablanca appeal court sentenced, Wednesday, former National Rally of Independents MP Mohamed El Hidaoui to 8 months in prison for embezzlement over tickets destined for the country's fans in last year's FIFA World Cup in Qatar. El Hidaoui, who also heads the Olympic Safi football club, has seen his sentence reduced after a first instance court sentenced him earlier this year to 18 months in jail and a 2,000 dh-fine. Radio Mars sports journalist Adil El Omari, co-accused in the same case,
TAQA Morocco, created to meet Morocco's commitment to enrich its energy mix, is planning to build a renewable energy station in the south of the Kingdom with a capacity of 6,000 megawatts. The new station will be producing green hydrogen, with an investment amounting to 100 billion dirhams, government and senior officials from the energy firm told Asharq Bloomberg on Tuesday. An official at the energy company said that the new station «will be the largest to date in Morocco in terms
Moroccan parliamentarian Mohamed El Hidaoui, sentenced for embezzlement over tickets destined for the country's fans in last year's World Cup in Qatar, has lost his seat at the parliament. The decision was made public, Tuesday December 26, by the country’s Constitutional Court. The Constitutional Court was seized by Thami Lmsekki, a politician and member of the Democratic and Social Movement Party. Lmsekki participated to the September 2021 general elections alongside National Rally of
Algeria wants to reconcile with Sahel countries. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ahmed Attaf, received yesterday in Algiers his Nigerien counterpart, Bakary Yaou Sangaré. «The two ministers evaluated cooperative relations between the two countries in different areas, notably the trans-Saharan road, including its role in the development in the Sahel», indicates the Algerian Foreign Ministry in a press release. Attaf and Sangaré «reviewed the developments
Morocco is ready to engage in a trade and security deal with the United Kingdom, which plans to double trade with Africa. A potential Brexit trade and security deal with the North African Kingdom could «open massive opportunities from the entire African continent», wrote Daily Express on Tuesday. The move has reportedly been celebrated by former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the daily reported. Johnson would have told friends that the increase trend of trade with Morocco