The government delegation in Ceuta wants to repatriate Moroccans who swam to the city on the weekend «as soon as possible». According to sources within the delegation, quoted by Ceuta TV, around 63 people were sent to Morocco, while 50 others are awaiting repatriation. In the past few hours, 40 people were sent back to the kingdom, in addition to the 23 people repatriated on Tuesday, the same source continued. There are no minors among the returnees, recalling that the
To accompany Bill 13-21, a coordination that brings together cannabis growers and the descendants of farmers met with the parties represented in the Lower House to present its memorandum to them. It calls for authorizing the recreational use of this plant, establishing a general amnesty, defining a reference price and granting more roles to cooperatives.
Moroccan-Dutch writer and novelist Hafid Bouazza died on Thursday aged 51 in Amsterdam. According to his editor Querido, the writer had been suffering from health issues for some time, write Volkskrant and NOS. Born in Oujda, he was considered a representative of «migrant literature» in the Netherlands. He immigrated to the Netherlands at the end of 1977 with his family. He grew up in Arkel, South Holland. In 1996, Hafid Bouazza debuted his career as a writer
An Israeli delegation composed mainly of entrepreneurs arrived on Wednesday April 28 in Nador, a local source told Yabiladi. Once there, its members went to a hotel in Atalayoun, a few kilometers away from the city, where they held a meeting with the authorities in Nador and officials from the Marchica Agency. The delegation would be interested in investment opportunities in Nador. The program of the visit also includes a trip to the port of Béni Nsar. The same source
493 new coronavirus cases were recorded in Morocco during the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country to 510,465. 4,914,145 people have received the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine so far, while 4,245,154 people have received the second. 552 new recoveries were recorded during the same period, bringing the total number of recoveries to 496,583. 10 deaths were recorded in Morocco in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of Covid-19-related
A recent report issued by the Stockholm Peace Institute confirmed the continuation of the arms race between Morocco and Algeria during the year 2020, as the two neighbors topped the list of countries that spend the most on arms in the African continent.
A second direct commercial flight from Morocco to Israel took off Monday from the Tel Aviv airport to land in Casablanca, after more than 6 hours. On the same day, the El Al flight, a Boeing 737-8Z9, left the economic capital of the Kingdom for Israel. According to journalist Seddik Khalfi, the plane «only stayed a little over an hour on the tarmac at the Casablanca airport». Thus, arriving at 5:22 p.m., it left at around 7:10 p.m., according to Flightradar24. The
After having repeatedly criticized the Sanchez government for its pro-Morocco positions, the Polisario front defends Spain amid hospitalization of Brahim Ghali. This mission is entrusted to Oubi Bouchraya El Bachir, member of the General Secretariat of the Front, in charge of Europe and the European Union, and his representative in Madrid, Abddellah El Arabi. The two have defended the stay of their leader in a public hospital in Logrono. Oubi Bouchraya estimated that Spain received
Khadijatou Mahdmoud, one of the plaintiffs who accuses the secretary general of the Polisario Front Brahim Ghali of rape, took advantage of his hospitalization in Spain to reiterate her call for justice to be done. In a new video, she asked the Spanish justice to intervene to punish her rapist. She recalls having left Spain for the Tindouf camps in Algeria in 2005 and remained there until 2010, working as a translator for non-governmental organizations. However, while she was
United States National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met on Tuesday, April 27, in Washington with his Israeli counterpart Meir Ben-Shabbat. This meeting was meant to «continue the close bilateral consultations between the two governments on a range of regional issues», read a White House press release. The two men «discussed their serious concerns about advancements in Iran’s nuclear program in recent years». During the same meeting, Sullivan underscored