Canadian police to press charges against Moroccan who sent fake bomb threats

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

Morocco unveils final squad list to compete in upcoming Africa cup of nations

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

Sahara : «Pedro Sanchez has given up» on supporting Morocco, Algeria claims

«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.

Former Moroccan MP sees sentence reduced in World Cup ticket scam appeal

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 plans new green hydrogen station in Dakhla

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 politician loses parliament seat following World Cup ticket scam

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 reconnect with Niger after it joined Morocco’s royal initiative on Sahel

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, Britain eye major Brexit trade and security deal

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

East Africa : Morocco mends ties with a strong Polisario ally

The Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs met, Tuesday, December 26 in Rabat, with the Senior Presidential Advisor on Middle East Affairs, Mohamed Ahmed Kisuule, who delivered a message to King Mohammed VI from the President of the Republic of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni. The day before, the Foreign Minister received «Rashid Yahya Ssemuddu, who came to present a copy of his credentials as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Uganda to HM King Mohammed

Confiscated letters from Spanish women to Moroccan men, a story of forbidden love

They are love letters that, unfortunately, never made it to their destination, Morocco. Filled with love and affection, they were carefully written by Spanish women who were madly in love with Moroccan men in the middle of the Spanish colonization of northern Morocco. Sent between the 1930s and the 1950s, these letters attested to forbidden relationships between Spanish women and Moroccan soldiers deployed to fight alongside Franco’s forces during the Spanish Civil War. The mails were